Productivity assessment studies are essential in forest operations, mainly because their results enable operational planning and rate setting, the development of equitable payment systems, environmental performance, improvements brought by technology development, optimization larger forest-based systems. This study examines productive performance fuel consumption farm-tractor based skidding ope...

Schall et al. (2020) assessed how a combination of different forest management systems in managed landscapes dominated by European beech may affect the biodiversity (alpha, beta and gamma) 14 taxonomic groups. Current policy nature conservation often demand for combining uneven-aged unmanaged, set-aside conservation, forests order to promote biodiversity. In contrast this, found even-aged shelt...

Effects of two types of timbering on populations of the Peaks of Otter salamander (Plethodon hubrichti) were determined using average numbers found during multiple night collections. Sampling was done prior to, and for two years after, timbering on four sites in each of three treatments (clearcut, shelterwood cuts, and reference). The average numbers of P. hubrichti at the reference and shelter...

Alternative silvicultural systems to clearfelling are being adopted in Great Britain as a means of increasing the species and structural diversity of conifer plantation forests. One area where knowledge is lacking is the critical level of below-canopy light for survival and growth of young seedlings. This was investigated by planting seedlings of European larch Larix decidua (Mill.), Scots pine...

Abstract There is increasing interest across Europe in adopting forest management strategies, which promote species and structural diversity through the use of irregular silvicultural systems, an approach often described as continuous cover forestry (CCF). However, there little information about proportion CCF practised continent or knowledge gaps other obstacles that limit its use. A survey re...

Cordulegaster heros is included in the EN category on IUCN Red List for territory of Czech Republic, where it inhabits an area approximately 100 km2. All localities are located forest complex Chřiby hills, and all forests fall into management forests. Most stands have a high very degree naturalness; they natural stands. The predominant units Nutrient sites middle elevations (78.2% area) Oligotr...

Abstract Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco), one of the most commercially important tree species in western North America and valuable timber trees worldwide, was introduced to Europe 1827. It became a major for afforestation Western after WWII, currently grows 35 countries on over 0.83 million ha is widespread non-native across continent. A lower sensitivity drought makes pote...

The present study addresses the short-term effects of different harvest intensities under close-to-nature selective management on upper soil layers in Slovenian and Bosnian Dinaric karst fir-beech forests. coincided with single-tree irregular shelterwood management, common region. effect harvesting intensity (Ol, Of, Ol 0–10 cm mineral soil) was investigated by a repeated measurements experimen...