EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

GOT – Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Georg-August-University
Göttingen, Germany: Partner #1, leader of task #5. The team of the Faculty of Forest
Sciences and Forest Ecology in Göttingen contributes to the network by extraordinary
complementary research in the fields of silviculture and forest ecology. They are represented
by the group of. Prof. Dr. A. Dohrenbusch and it includes forest regeneration, competitionbased
control of young stands, ecological demands of forest trees species, ecological and
economical aspects forest developments, e. g. carbon sequestration and water quality
Two key publications:
Dohrenbusch, a., 2000: forest management. In: Puhe, J. Ulrich, B.: Global Climate Change
and Human Impacts on Forest Ecosystems. Springer Ecological Studies: 419–462.
Dohrenbusch, A.; Bartsch, N. (eds.) (2002) Forest development – succession, environmental
stress and forest management. Springer, Berlin, 220 pp.
ZVO – Faculty of Forestry, Technical University Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia: Partner #2,
leader of task #1. Results of to-date longest systematic research of the primeval forests in the
Temperate Zone of Europe have been published by Korpeľ (1995), the co-founder of modern
natural forests research in Europe. His work has become a reference for further primeval
forest research results. Consequently, it has been cited one hundred and forty five times in the
ISI-indexed journals and more than 1000 times in journals indexed by other databases. The
team has been participating in several projects within the 5 th and 6 th EU Framework
Programs: FRAXIGEN, FRAXINAS, Implementing Tree Growth Models (ITM), WARM.
Two key publications:
Saniga, M., Schütz, J.P., 2001: Dynamik des Totholzes in zwei gemischten Urwäldern der
Westkarpaten im pflanzengeographischen Bereich der Tannen-Buchen- und der
Buchenwälder in verschiedenen Entwicklungsstadien. Schweiz. Z. Forstwes. 152, (10):
407–416.
Comps, B., Gömöry, D., Letouzey, J., Thiébaut, B., Petit, R. J., 2001: Diverging Trends
Between Heterozygosity and Allelic Richness During Postglacial Colonization in the
European Beech. Genetics, Vol. 157: 389–397.
RAK – Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, Rakhiv; UA: Partner #3, leader of task #4. The
research team of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, has a long-standing experience in
performing the biodiversity inventories and has achieved remarkable results in comparative
studies between biodiversity in primeval and managed forests. As a result, his team organized
the scientific conference “Natural Forests in the Temperate Zone of Europe – Values and
Utilisation” in 2003 in Rakhiv, during which one hundred and thirty contributions dealing
with biological, social and economic aspects of natural forest ecosystems and thereof
utilization were presented (Hamor, Commarmot 2003). The participation of the Rakhiv team
is indispensable for the network as the team contributes its research plots in the largest
European beech reserves, e. g. Uholka – 6200 ha in size, Kuzyi-Trybushany – 4200 ha in
size. Carpathian Biosphere Reserve closely cooperates with Zvolen team on the research of
permanent experimental plots in the Ukrainian primeval forests founded by prof. Zlatník
(Zlatník et. al 1938, Vološčuk 2003). Their data records complete the series of observations
needed for capturing spatial variety of primeval forests in the Temperate Zone of Europe and
their temporal variations.
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