EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

Pre-proposal No 1 MICKING PRIMEVAL FORESTS PATTERNS
IN NATURE-BASED FOREST RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (“PRIMEFOR”)
of forest resources, capable of adapting to site conditions where it is applied and to new conditions yet to be experienced. The network partners
are:
UKE – Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia: Network coordinator. The institute has been participating
in nine projects within the 5th EU and 6th EU Framework Programs: BIOSCENE, BIOPRESS, CARBOMONT, BIOHAB, BIOPLATFORM,
BIOFORUM, RURAL-ETINET, ALTERNET and SENSOR. The team under the leadership of Dr. J. Oszlányi, the institute’s director, has co-operated
with all network partners. The main contributions of this team to the network consist in investigations of biomass production, carbon
accumulation and biodiversity survey in forest ecosystems, as well as regionalization of results and the network management.
Two key publications:
Oszlányi, J., 2001: Research in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves as one of the elements of the Seville Strategy. Ekológia – Bratislava. 20
(3): 45–53.
Oszlányi, J., Grodzinska, K., Badea, O., Sharpyk, Y.: Nature conservation in Central and Eastern Europe with a special emphasis on the
Carpathian Mountains. Environmental Pollution. 130 (1): 17–32.
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,
competition-based 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 Korpeº (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 5th and 6th 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 longstanding
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, Volo‰ãuk 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.
Two key publications:
Commarmot, B., Bachofen, H., Bundziak, Yo., Bürgi, A., Ramp, B., Shparyk, Yu., Sukhariuk, D., Viter, R., Zingg, A., 2005: Structures of
virgin and managed forests in Uholka (Ukraine) and Sihlwald (Switzerland): a comparative study. For. Snow Landsc. Res. 79, 1/2: 45–56
Dovhanych Ya.E., 1986: Carnivores of the Carpathian Reserve. Moscow, 12–14.
LJU – Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia: Partner #4, Tasks # 1, 5. Leader of the team, prof. J. Diaci made highly sig-
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