Frameworks and possibilities of forest adaptation measures and strategies connected to climate change

Project facts

Project promoter:
Mendel University in Brno, Forestry and Wood Technology
Project Number:
CZ02-0011
Target groups
Civil servants/Public administration staff,
Researchers or scientists
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€562,829
Final project cost:
€530,784
From EEA Grants:
€ 424,627
The project is carried out in:
Czech Republic

Description

Complex changes in forest management due to climate change are needed because of efforts to curb climate change and its consequences and because of the small adaptability of forest ecosystems. The main objective of this project is to contribute significantly to the draft of forest adaptation measures and strategies related to climate change and to create the associated conceptual materials. The main benefit of the project is to create outputs fully applicable to the preparation of these concepts and methodological approaches. The cooperation between four well experienced partners in forest research is the main benefit of the project. One of the target group is the public administration, where the outputs of the project will be fully applicable to the preparation of the plans, strategies and methodological approaches in forest management. The second group are researchers, who will benefit from new information, the creation of international contacts, publications and outputs deepening their involvement in interdisciplinary teams.

Summary of project results

In particular, the project has contributed to improving the adaptation of forest management to global climate change. The main benefit is a unique catalog of forest adaptation measures which is publicly accessible to the broad forestry public and is fully applicable to the preparation of concepts, strategies and methodological approaches for state and public authorities in the field of forest management, nature and landscape conservation and environmental protection. Furthermore, the final beneficiary has developed three adaptation framework management guidelines for three selected natural forest areas that can serve to create more robust forest management plans for particular forest managers and owners. The team also published 7 impact articles and 1 chapter in the book which served as background material for catalog creation and framework guidelines for management and are intended for the scientific public. There were 4 impact studies: "Impact Study of Jablunkov" which evaluated the state and development of spruce stands at the local level, "Pilatky Impact Study" which brings about the development of the population of a particular insect family that was severely affected by drought periods, "Impact Study of Microproducts on the SPL" , the assessment of the occurrence of dry periods in species-differentiated forest microcircuits and their relation to the rainfall summaries, "Feasibility study of a monitoring system for operational forestry planning based on DPZ using unmanned means", this brought an appreciation of the possibilities of practical use of drones in forestry practice. forestry as important know-how in adaptation to climate change.The benefits of the project can thus be used to prepare regional and local adaptation strategies as well as concrete adaptation measures. The results of the project provide answers not only to the practical but also to the research problems associated with the reaction of trees to environmental changes, to the complex action of stressors on the wood, forest ecosystems.

Summary of bilateral results

Partner cooperated on assigned parts of the project, participated in the creation and finalization of outputs and in the form of dr. Isabelle Borji was also part of the executive board of the project. In particular, the following results emerged from the cooperation: 1) Impact publication entitled "Impact of climate change on growth dynamics of Norway spruce in south-eastern Norway"; 2) the chapter "Norway spruce fine roots and fungal hyphae grows deep in forest soils after extended drought" in the book "Soil biological communities and ecosystem resilience"; 3) Draft Basic Adaptation Forest Management for Southeast Norway entitled "Adaptive Forest Management to Climate Change in Southeast Norway - Basic Frames, Risk and Possibilities". During the implementation of the project, the co-operation was used for international op- portunities of the underlying and final outputs of the project and for the extension of the project's underlying data.