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In Japan approximately two-thirds of the country is covered in forests. Forests are primarily distributed over steep mountainous terrain, and given this association the terms forest and “the mountain” are often used interchangeably.
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Hirata, Y., Hosoda, K., Nishizono, T., Kitahara, F., Nagame, I., Nakamura, M. (2016). Japan. In: Vidal, C., Alberdi, I., Hernández Mateo, L., Redmond, J. (eds) National Forest Inventories. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44015-6_27
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