Monitoring the vitality of forest ecosystems exposed to drought to assure sustainable forestry during climate change
Public support
Provider
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Programme
EEA/Norwegian Financial Mechanism
Call for proposals
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Main participants
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Contest type
RP - Co-financing of EC programme
Contract ID
3098/2010-32
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
Monitoring the vitality of forest ecosystems exposed to drought to assure sustainable forestry during climate change
Annotation in Czech
The natural proportion of the Norway spruce cover is about 11 % in the Czech Republic and 50 % in the Norway. Norway spruce was in the past 200 massively introduced in the forest, because it is tree species with high production of the commercial wood. Inthe contrast to the native state, currently Norway spruce covers more than 50 % of the land. These pure spruce stands may be potentially unstable (especially on the sites with lack of available water). The composition of the tree species cannot be rapidly changed, because the rotation period of forest stands is usually longer than 100 years and these stands, alongside the bioproductive function, maintains also number of environmental functions (e.g. hydrological, recreational, health-hygienic). The wood is a renewable source and the industry is adapted on the Norway spruce type of wood. In the some branches of industry (e.g. paper and celulosis, wood-building) is not an alternative tree species, or the alternative is more expansive (e.g. make of furniture). One of the aims of the sustainable forest management is transfer of these potentially unstable spruce monocultures into the forest stand with better species composition. Because of the risk of ecological and bioproductive losses is not possible toleave these stands to the native evolvement. It is necessary to improve their ecological stability by the suitable silviculture treatments (to avoid e.g. similar situation as in the Sumava national park on the rest of the republic). The aim of the research should be supplementation of the current monitoring of the health state of the forest with the method enabling detection of the water stress of the trees. The incoming climate change will influence water cycle, hence the stability of the forest stands. In the combination with already used methods (e.g. defoliation, transpiration, photosynthesis, CO2 fluxes) will be possible to detect risk localities and make the survival analysis
Scientific branches
R&D category
ZV - Basic research
CEP classification - main branch
GK - Forestry
CEP - secondary branch
EH - Ecology - communities
CEP - another secondary branch
EF - Botany
OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)
10611 - Plant sciences, botany<br>10612 - Mycology<br>10618 - Ecology<br>10619 - Biodiversity conservation<br>40102 - Forestry
Completed project evaluation
Provider evaluation
U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)
Project results evaluation
Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
May 1, 2009
Realization period - end
Dec 31, 2010
Project status
U - Finished project
Latest support payment
May 11, 2010
Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP11-MSM-7F-U/01:1
Data delivery date
Jun 30, 2011
Finance
Total approved costs
276 thou. CZK
Public financial support
276 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK