Revista de gestión de la biodiversidad y silvicultura

A forest is an area of Land Dominated by Trees

Robin M. Reich

A wood is an area of land overwhelmed by trees. Many meanings of woods are utilized all through the world, consolidating elements, for example, tree thickness, tree tallness, land use, legitimate standing, and biological capacity. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) characterizes a backwoods as, "Land traversing more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a shade front of in excess of 10%, or trees ready to arrive at these edges in situ. It does exclude land that is dominatingly under agrarian or metropolitan use." Using this definition, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 (FRA 2020) observed that woods covered 4.06 billion hectares (10.0 billion sections of land; 40.6 million square kilometers; 15.7 million square miles), or around 31% of the world's property region in 2020. Woods are the dominating earthbound environment of Earth, and are conveyed all over the planet. The greater part of the world's woods are found in just five nations (Brazil, Canada, China, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America). The biggest portion of backwoods (45%) is in the tropical scopes, trailed by those in the boreal, mild, and subtropic areas. Backwoods represent 75% of the gross essential creation of the Earth's biosphere, and contain 80% of the Earth's plant biomass. Net essential creation is assessed at 21.9 giga tones of biomass each year for tropical timberlands, 8.1 for calm woodlands, and 2.6 for boreal backwoods.