Report on status of world forest resources, produced be CIFOR and WCMC. Presented as world, regional and country level through synthesis reports, statistical tables, maps and graphs
The digital world forest coverage was subdivided into different broad forest types, and the ecological zones coverages were used as an overlay to define in even more detail the ecological variants of each forest type. The differences in scales and resolutions upon which the forest data sets and the ecological zones data sets were based, meant that the results of combining zones and forest types was not always meaningful. A more in-depth analysis of the reasons for the results obtained would be very useful and eliminate misleading combinations (e.g., thorn forest in the Tropical wet ecological zone) that may seem like rare and unique forest variants.Having created such detailed forest coverages for each region of the world, it was possible to compare forest area to the population figures. Some preliminary test extrapolations were attempted.
WWW site has the text of the report, statistical tables, maps and graphs.
A CDRom is also availble containing all the GIS spatial data files on forests, protected areas and ecological zones that went into the analysis.