Discussion on the Important Guarantee for Sustainable Forest Management:Integrated Monitoring of Forest Resource

The paper introduced the concepts and connotation of sustainable forest management,discussed the dialectic relationship of sustainable forest management and integrated monitoring of forest resource,and summarized the current status and development trends of forest resource monitoring in the world.The paper also indicated that the goals of integrated monitoring of forest resource were enriched by sustainable forest management,and integrated monitoring of forest resource was an important guarantee and approaches of indicators collection for sustainable forest management.In recent years,the objectives of forest resource monitoring have changed from timber resource to integrated monitoring of forest resource and environment in developed countries.Besides forest growth indicators,the important indicators of forest health status and ecological environment were also added to monitoring contents.Many advanced instruments were used to continuous and automatic monitoring.It could reduce the workload and costs of field monitoring and improve the accuracy and continuity of data.Based on this analysis,the author put forward some suggestions for improving integrated monitoring system of forest resource in China.