EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

Indicator: Differences in growth performance, transpiration and elemental content in edificator species;
Milestones: 1 st peer-reviewed paper published 31. May 2008
2 nd peer reviewed paper published 28. February 2009
Action 1.4:
Research on the indicator species ecological demands
Description of work: Findings from scientific literature will be summarized and complemented by own research of ecological demands
and etology of selected indicator species, identified in Action 1.2, and under consideration of results from Action 1.3, supposedly mainly
xylobiotic organisms and bird species nesting in cavities. Research will lean on a broad array of suitable methods, including telemetric
tracking. Acquired findings will be directly utilized in WP 5 a WP 5, whose actions aim at the development of management models,
which would ensure the saturation of identified demands within the corridors and forests of all categories.
Indicator: Compendium of ecological demands of 200 indicator species
Milestone: • Publication of the compendium within a book: Slovak Primeval Forests
– Diversity and Protection (2 nd edition) 31. January 2010
Action 1.5:
In vitro micropropagation of selected floral species
Description of work: Opportunities for in-vitro micropropagation of endangered selected floral species will be investigated in order to
ensure the conservation of endangered trees and herbs, based on successful micropropagation of whych elm (Biro‰ãíková et al. 2004),
whose population was devastated by the Dutch Elm Disease. The related expertise will be applied to further tree species, threatened
by trachemycoses or plants reduced by illegal plucking (Drosera rotundifolia).
Indicator: micropropagation of four new endangered species
Milestone: • 1 st peer-reviewed paper published 30. April 2008
• 2 nd peer reviewed paper published 28. February 2009
• plantlets available for field tests 31. January 2010
Work package 2:
Dynamics of primeval forests and its effect on the availability, and safety of water resources,
carbon accumulation and ecological stability of landscapes
Description:
Scientific data records from are available from a number of primeval forests preserves in the Slovak part of the Carpathians, several of them
spanning 50 years of a systematic research of primeval forests structure and texture (Korpeº 1989, Bublinec, Pichler 2001, Volo‰ãuk 2004).
Contrary to that, only fragmented data are available on the effect of primeval forests dynamics on biodiversity, biogeochemical cycling, slope
and landscape stability, although the results indicate very promising lines of research (Keim, Skaugset 2003, Kropil et al. 1995, Kropil 1996,
Saniga, Schuetz 2001). This thematic and methodological fragmentation must be overcome in order to develop functioning models for the integration
of natural processes into forest management toolbox, as planned in WP 4 and WP 5). The critical research capacity will be reached
through actions 2.1–2.3.
Action 2.1:
Evaluation and synthesis of findings from own prior long–term primeval forests research
LIST OF PROJECT WORK PACKAGES
AND ACTIONS
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