Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences (MCFNS) — ##plugins.generic.mcfnsReadingTools.readingTools##

This short discussion introduces the new Special Section on Advanced FIA Data Analysis that has been recently created in the (MCFNS) journal as a result of collaboration between the journal editors and scientists of the U.S. Forest Service, FIA (Forest Inventory Analysis) program. This section contains three papers, all of which originated from presentations at the 9th FIA Symposium held at Park City, Utah, on October 21-23, 2008. The papers passed two screening criteria and a peer-review process consistent with the MCFNS standards, and were assessed by the journal editors as consistent with the MCRNS scope and focus and valuable contributions to the journal’s contents.