The technology has been in use with many forestry management and commercial companies since 2004, mainly to determine the dynamic degree of change in vegetation. For sustainable forest management it is important to gather specific information on each single tree to improve the knowledge base regarding the relationship between climate and vegetation as well as the general mapping of tree types.
Genetic / DNA Barcodes Tanzeem Fatima & Team, Institute of Wood Science and Technology Bangalore, India.
These are used to identify living structures, whether plants or animals. The selected codes in Waldar(z)t are relevant to research carried out by a team in India which focused on the identification of protected tree species which are subject to illegal logging and sales.