This project has been divided into two new projects: The Swedish Forest Soil Inventory and the Swedish National Forest Inventory.
The Swedish National Forest Inventory has the task of describing the state and changes in Sweden's forests. The inventory gathers basic information on forests, soils and vegetation. It includes most aspects concerning soils, for example: soil types, soil chemistry including organic matter, water conditions and content of stones and boulders. Acidification, nitrogen deposition and the contribution by soils to climate change are some of the current issues dealt with. Regularly reported variables are: forest state, injuries, and growth, logging operations, new forest stand, and environmental assessment. Invented variables on permanent sampling plots include: position in the landscape, field vegetation, site conditions, soil sampling, assesment of soil characteristics, chemical analysis of soil in O-, B-, BC- and C-horizons.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Dept. of Soil and Environment, Box 7001 750 07 Uppsala Sweden
Jonas Fridman Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of Forest Resource Management Phone: +4690-786 84 73 (cell: +70 678 40 52) Fax: +4690-778116 e-mail: Jonas.Fridman@slu.se Contact at Swedish EPA: Ola Inghe Phone: + 4610 698 1571 E-mail: ola.inghe@naturvardsverket.se and Jonas Rodhe Phone: + 4610 698 1307 Fax: + 4610 698 1585 E-mail: jonas.rodhe@naturvardsverket.se
tree, vegetation, plant species, landscape, site condition, micro-elements, macro-elements,
Results, mainly as maps, are readily available in an internet-based information system called "Markinfo" (www-markinfo.slu.se)as well as on SLU's homepage http://www.slu.se/sv/webbtjanster-miljoanalys/statistik-om-skog/
Reports are available on SLU's websities: (http://www.slu.se/sv/webbtjanster-miljoanalys/statistik-om-skog/ http://www-markinfo.slu.se/
For information contact project leaders: Johan.Stendahl@slu.se and Jonas.Fridman@slu.se.
For information contact project leaders: Johan.Stendahl@slu.se and Jonas.Fridman@slu.se
Swedish EPA,
Swedish EPA;
Monitoring proceeds in five-years intervals. Forest State variable include list of tree species, wood dimension, maturity class, and tree age. The forest injuries variable are described by needle loss and tree injuries. The new forest stand are defined as an age of forest clearings and thicket stage. The environmental assessment includes an old growth forest, large trees and deciduous intermixtures, and coarse woody debris reporting. Invented variables on permanent sampling plots include field vegetation (state and development of 267 species and species groups, and coverage of 71 species and species groups), site condition (moisture class, moving soil water, plot exposition, plot surface inclination, site quality index, degree of influence from forestry operations, the cultural influences, boulder frequency), and soil characteristic by asses of type of soil, texture, humus form, degree of humification, thickness of humus layer. The soil sampling is up to 1 m depth on some permanent plots. Soil sampled from different horizons is analysed for pH, N, C, CEC, heavy metals. The position in the landscape are described in relation to county borders, municipality borders, roads, arable lands, and water. Chemical soil analysis of mineral soil from C-horizon include macro-elements, micro-elements and loss on ignition, and from O-, B-, BC- and C-horizon: pH, exchangeable Ca, Mg, Na, K; C, N, S.