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Forest & Non-forest can't be defined by tree cover alone.
The WRI's Trees Outside Forests Indicator of forest extent is based on defining land that has trees outside forests as "all human-managed urban and agricultural land with tree cover and all other land with greater than zero percent and less than 10 percent tree cover".
The definition misclassifies #TropicalGrassyBiomes that have >10% tree cover as 'forest'.
#BiomeAwarenessDisparity
research.wri.orgTrees Outside Forests | Global Forest ReviewThe Trees Outside Forests (TOF) Indicator aims to monitor trees that are growing outside forests on farms, in orchards and tree plantations, in cities, along roads and in parks and across other non-forest landscapes. While this indicator discusses the distribution and importance of TOF generally, calculations in this indicator quantify land that contains trees outside forests, which we define as all human-managed urban and agricultural land with tree cover and all other land with greater than zero percent and less than 10 percent tree cover. Tall herbaceous vegetation such as sugarcane, bananas and cacti, as well as short woody crops such as tea and coffee are excluded. This indicator currently considers only tropical land that contains TOF in the year 2020.