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Ecology and management of Central European forests - MO550P41
Title: Ekologie a management lesů střední Evropy
Czech title: Ekologie a management lesů střední Evropy
Guaranteed by: Institute for Environmental Studies (31-550)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2025
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: summer s.:written
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
the course is taught as cyclical
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Jan Hofmeister, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Jan Hofmeister, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Forests are an important source of wood, but are also of great importance for species diversity. Can these functions be combined?
What is the natural dynamics of mountain forests and what does it mean for nature conservation and forest management?
Disturbance or calamity? Different view of one event.
What is a low forest? Will we start to stump again in the lowlands and why?
What effect do global changes have and will have on our forests?
Last update: Tátosová Jolana, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
Literature

Arne Pommerening, Pavel Grabarnik: Individual-based Methods in Forest Ecology and Management.  Springer International Publishing, 2019, 411pgs. ISBN 3030245276, 9783030245276
Arnold G. van der Valk: Forest ecology. Springer, 2009, 363 pgs. ISBN: 9048127947

Arcicles in the Journal Forest Ecology and Management, Elsevier

Last update: Tátosová Jolana, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

Účast na terénních exkurzích. Ke zkoušce vypracování eseje na zadané téma.

Last update: Hofmeister Jan, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (18.01.2022)
Syllabus -

1. Dynamics of natural forests. Disturbance mode.

2. History and present of forestry management.

3. Fundamentals of forestry - forest typology, forest management.
4. Fundamentals of forestry - forestry, forest protection, forestry policy.
5. Forest management and biodiversity.
6. Global change and forests

Last update: Tátosová Jolana, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)
 
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