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Nuria Alba
Area de Selvicultura y
Mejora Genética, INIA, 28080 Madrid, Spain
The standardized list of descriptors for inventories of Populus nigra
stands have been developed by the EUFORGEN Populus nigra
Network members and has been devised to cover the description of
natural Populus nigra stands in terms of information on
passport, geographic location and environment of the site,
population structure, state of health and disturbance, and on-going
management of the forests.
The adoption of descriptor
standards will produce a rapid, reliable and efficient means for
information storage, retrieval and communication. It is recommended,
therefore, that information should be produced by closely following
using the descriptors specified in Table 1., with the respective
field names and lengths if a database structure is being developed
simultaneously. Where possible a standardized approach with the
IPGRI/FAO Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors (MCPD) has been
considered. The MCPD were developed to provide consistent coding
schemes for common passport descriptors across different plant
species.
EUFORGEN does not, however,
assume that institutions responsible for the description of the Populus
nigra stands will utilize all descriptors suggested below (Table
1.). However, a number of descriptors are essential for the
identification of a record and have been marked with an asterisk (*)
beside each of them.
A Word 97 version of the
Descriptors can be downloaded by clicking
here.
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