National forest inventories sometimes distinguish woodlots less than 0.5 ha. Should these be included when reporting the area of Forest??
A3 The general definition of Forest in FRA is ¿Land spanning more than 0.5 hectares¿¿ and this should be the base for country reporting whenever it is possible to obtain this figure from the national data sources. However, sometimes the national data sources do not allow to obtain estimates with exactly this size limit. In such cases the countries should report to whatever size limit that is available and clearly document the size limit used. Countries that can report according to the FRA specification but also have additional information on woodlots of sizes below 0.5 hectare are encouraged to include these figures in the country report where national data are presented, although they will not form part of the figures in the final reporting table for table T1.
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