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In Europe, for over a century, continuous forest inventory (CFI) has been practiced by periodically executing complete enumerations of forest areas. At present such expensive operations no longer are economically justified. On the other hand, complete periodic remeasurement of for instance extensive forest areas in the tropics is practically impossible. Consequently, modern continuous forest inventories are based on methods in which sample plots are measured periodically, say every 3 to 10 years. The size of the plots generally is in the range of 500 to 1000 m2, the sampling intensity being of the order of 0.1%.
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de Vries, P.G. (1986). Continuous Forest Inventory with Partial Replacement of Sample Plots. In: Sampling Theory for Forest Inventory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71581-5_7
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