This first volume contains 77 papers presented at the Jubilee Scientific Conference dedicated to the 75th Anniversary of the Forest Research Institute at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The papers were grouped into the following fields: forest ecology; silviculture; and forest policy, equipment and...

This article reveals the necessity of considering the availability and state of water, as an integrated criterion of the environmental-and-silvicultural optimality of forests. The importance of catchments basins as spatial unifiers of water, land and forests is pointed out, as well as the...

This second of the two-volume proceedings contains 68 papers dealing with forest issues that could contribute to science development and its application. The papers are grouped into the following fields: (i) forest genetics, physiology and forest resources; (ii) forest protection, forest pathology...

This third volume of the Proceedings of the Third Balkan Scientific Conference contains 64 papers focusing on the conservation of forest ecosystems, erosion control, plant diseases and pests, forest fires, landscape architecture and hunting fauna.

This first of the two-volume proceedings contains 69 papers (published in English and Bulgarian) dealing with the study, conservation and utilization of forest resources as well as important problems in the field of forestry and forest industries in the Balkans.

This paper describes some of the studies conducted by the Djanybek Research Station in Russia, which include comprehensive investigations on the structure, functioning and sustainable development of natural and artificial forest ecosystems of Caspian lowland.

This paper presents the results of height growth modelling of dominant beech trees at different sites in south-west Serbia and the possibility of their application for site class assessment and projection of silvicultural and management measures.

The team of the World Bank that examined the forestry sector of Bulgaria in 1994 found Bulgarian forestry "very sound". Of course, this concerns forest management and forest inventory too. Now, after the reforms of 1998, the forest planning has to be adapted to private property and market economy....

In the forests of Serbia, the percentage of valuable hardwoods (common ask, sycamore, etc.) is very low, although there are adequate sites for them. We describe a successfully regenerated and formed stand of common ash. In a part of a stand, in addition to undesirable species control (oriental...

The devitalizing process within the studied stand developed under frequent activity of adverse factors and adverse stand state, as consequence to intensive tree progress and inadequate tending. At the age of 42, approximately 75% of the overstand trees had irregularly grown and compressed crowns,...