EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

National Academy of Sciences, Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape
Investigations (WSL, Switzerland), Mendel Agriculture and Forestry University (Czech
Republic) conduct their research and investigation here.
On the Slovak territory, the monitoring is carried-out by the state nature conservation
authority, universities (Faculty of Forestry in Zvolen, Faculty of Natural Sciences of the
Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of the
Technical University Zvolen and others) and research institutes (Institute of Forest Ecology
and Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences). Research and
monitoring are financially secured by the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak republic,
state grant commissions and non-governmental organisations. To co-ordinate both types of
activities, Joint Centre for the Research of Temperate Primeval Forests has been founded in
2005 (www.virginforests.sk).
6.c Results of previous reporting exercises:
Data on monitoring, which lasts here for many years already, are found in 27 volumes of
Chronicles of Nature of the CBR and in 3 volumes of Chronicles of Nature of UNNP, as well
as in numerous scientific reports, proceedings, abstract volumes, articles monographies, and
in professional literature. 5 PhD thesises and 1 Doctor degree thesis were defended on the
basis of these investigations.
Main results of s 25 years long monitoring of the properties on the Slovak territory are
available in Korpeľ (1993). Beside an extensive and comprehensive monitoring, to-date
monitoring has focused mainly also on inventory research. Its results have been summarised
by Bublinec & Pichler (2001). Continually updated information is also available at the official
website of the Joint Centre for the Research of Temperate Primeval Forests
(www.virginforests.sk).
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