Table 2 Land area of forest classes, their proportion of total country area, stratified area estimates and standard error estimates
From: A multi-purpose National Forest Inventory in Bangladesh: design, operationalisation and key results
Forest land cover classes | Map area | Stratified estimates | Standard error | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(ha) | Proportion of total country (%) | (ha) | Proportion of total country (%) | (ha) | (%) | |
Hill Forest | 683,852 | 4.63 | 894,204 | 6.06 | 22,268 | 2.5 |
Shrubs with scattered trees | 614,537 | 4.16 | 354,757 | 2.40 | 22,093 | 6.2 |
Mangrove Forest | 402,185 | 2.73 | 419,149 | 2.84 | 4518 | 1.1 |
Forest Plantation | 79,299 | 0.54 | 68,090 | 0.46 | 7622 | 11.2 |
Mangrove Plantation | 55,089 | 0.37 | 30,723 | 0.21 | 3831 | 12.5 |
Rubber Plantation | 23,684 | 0.16 | 37,357 | 0.25 | 5789 | 15.5 |
Plain Land Forest (Sal Forest) | 18,918 | 0.13 | 17,606 | 0.12 | 2744 | 15.6 |
Bamboo Forest | 5686 | 0.04 | 6246 | 0.04 | 1633 | 26.2 |
Swamp Plantation | 628 | 0.004 | 302 | 0.00 | 45 | 14.9 |
Swamp Forest | 140 | 0.001 | 431 | 0.00 | 269 | 62.4 |
Forest area | 1,884,019 | 12.77 | 1,828,865 | 12.39 | 33,480 | 1.8 |