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About the Database
Datasets resulting from research programs
or monitoring studies are curated in the National Forest Health and
Biodiversity Database. By combining the colossal volumes of individual
researcher’s data into a central, organized, national repository the
Canadian Forestry Services can build the complete picture of the health
and biodiversity of Canada’s forests.
Thus enabling it’s scientists to move forward together as a unit to
the goal of ‘improving the productivity of managed forests’.
The Forest Health Database is an automated repository of information
concerning the health, biodiversity, and exotic pest threat in Canada’s
forests. In some cases over 100 years of historical data is present
that cannot be found anywhere else. The system also supports forest
research in areas of forest health and biodiversity conducted by Canadian
and international scientists. The Forest Health database provides
scientists with 15+ years of continuous forest health biomonitoring
data collected under such programs as the Acid Rain National Early
Warning System and the North American Maple Project, which allows
CFS to monitor Canada’s forest for long term, changes over time.
It is the only national dataset that can provide geo-referenced distribution
records for forest pests and diseases to support quarantine and regulatory
decisions or for modeling of pest ranges under varying climatic scenarios.
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