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      "Determine whether an inventory covers the forest population, period and attributes required for a proposed decision.",
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      "Trace a reported forest estimate to its observations, expansion rules and supporting models.",
      "Compare inventory cycles after checking definitions, protocols and temporal compatibility.",
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      "Field crews measure trees on marked sample plots, with tags or paint marks on trees.",
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      "Forest inventory is used in forest management, conservation and resource reporting to estimate forest area, composition, condition and timber resources.",
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                    "text": "Is the inventory an enumeration or a sample, and how are plots, clusters or other units selected?",
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                    "text": "Which planned plots or forest areas were not observed, and what explains each omission or substitution?",
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                    "text": "How does estimation address these gaps, and which reporting domains require further sampling or restricted claims?",
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                    "text": "How are stem diameter, height, species and living or dead status measured or classified, where required by the objectives?",
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                    "text": "What rules cover forks, buttresses, leaning stems, uncertain species identifications and trees at plot boundaries?",
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                    "text": "Which estimators, expansion factors and area denominators transform observations into each reported forest quantity?",
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                    "text": "Which sampling, measurement, classification and model uncertainties are included in each reported uncertainty measure?",
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                  "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and their 2019 Refinement provide methods relevant to forest carbon accounting."
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                  "Planning harvests, regeneration and other forest management operations.",
                  "Estimating forest biomass and carbon stocks for greenhouse gas reporting.",
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                    "unit": "trees/ha"
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                    "quantity": "Forest carbon stock per unit land area",
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                    "unit": "tonnes C/ha"
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                  "Changes in forest definitions, tree inclusion thresholds or measurement protocols can create apparent changes unrelated to actual forest change.",
                  "Species misidentification, measurement errors and failed tree or plot relocation can distort stock and change estimates.",
                  "Unsuitable volume or biomass equations and poorly calibrated remote-sensing models can introduce systematic error.",
                  "Field crews face hazards from difficult terrain, falling branches, weather and remote working conditions."
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of forest inventory this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "id": "evidence-regional-variation",
                "name": "Regional variation",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  "Jurisdictions differ in forest definitions, including minimum area, canopy cover, tree height and treatment of plantations or temporarily unstocked land.",
                  "Diameter reference height is commonly 1.3 m in metric protocols and 4.5 ft in United States practice; rules for buttressed or irregular trees also differ.",
                  "National programmes differ in sampling design, remeasurement intervals and coverage of non-timber attributes, affecting comparability."
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of forest inventory this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "id": "evidence-neighbours",
                "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  {
                    "name": "Forest monitoring",
                    "difference": "Monitoring is organised around detecting changes through time; an inventory can describe conditions at a single time, although repeated inventories support monitoring."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Forest mensuration",
                    "difference": "Mensuration supplies methods for measuring trees and stands; inventory applies measurements within a defined coverage and estimation framework."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Forest mapping",
                    "difference": "Mapping locates and classifies forest features spatially; inventory estimates resource attributes and can use maps as inputs or produce them as outputs."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Timber cruising",
                    "difference": "Timber cruising focuses on estimating timber quantity and quality, generally making it a narrower inventory activity."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Forest management planning",
                    "difference": "Management planning selects objectives and actions; inventory provides evidence about forest resources and conditions."
                  }
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of forest inventory this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Does the registry intend forest inventory to denote the observation activity, its resulting information product or both, and does an existing world model already cover that scope?",
    "Which authoritative inventory frameworks should ground the model, and how should their differing forest definitions be represented?",
    "Which attributes are essential across inventory purposes, and which require optional extensions for timber, biomass, biodiversity or forest health?",
    "What evidence and validation requirements should distinguish acceptable design-based, model-assisted and model-based estimates for different uses?",
    "How should inventories combining observations from multiple years express their reference period and eligibility for change assessment?"
  ],
  "statistics": {
    "bundles": 6,
    "layers": 11,
    "findings": 19,
    "questions": 29
  }
}
