Forest management decisions about species mixture and harvest time are usually bound to economic considerations. Ecosystem services (ES), aside from timber production, are hardly considered. Although the consideration of multiple ES became common in recent years, it is still unclear how ES can be...

The paper provides a summary regarding the current state of silviculture and the use of sweet chestnut wood (Castanea sativa Mill.) in Italy. Existing opportunities for chestnut silviculture are very promising because sweet chestnut covers nearly 800,000 hectares in Italy, representing almost 2.6%...

Ecosystem legacies, reflecting the management history traits, are visible in structural indicators of a forest stand. We assessed patterns of spatial forest structure by using individual tree indices based on the nearest-neighbourhood approach. Five different indices were quantified - species...

This work summarizes the history and development of the research on silviculture in the former Czechoslovakia. A different approach of the silviculture research reflecting various site conditions was presented separately for the Bohemian area (later Czech Republic) and Slovakia (later Slovak...

The case study analyses the structure and dynamics of the diameter growth on the example of two fir-spruce forest stands under conversion to a selection forest. In a series of 51 circular research plots (size 500 m²), the biometric characteristics (tree species, diameter at breast height, height)...

The role of forests in mitigating climate change by acting as a carbon sink is becoming increasingly important. Forest management practices can either positively or negatively affect the ability of forests to mitigate climate change. The objectives of our study were to: (a) investigate the effects...

Against the background of the ongoing climate change, forest science and Central-European forest management need information about tree species that are suitable of forming resistant and resilient multispecific and multipurpose forest stands. Non-native species are also considered for this purpose. ...

Climate-adaptive forest management aims to sustain the provision of multiple forest ecosystem services and biodiversity (ESB). However, it remains largely unknown how changes in adaptive silvicultural interventions affect trade-offs and synergies among ESB in the long term. We used a...

The present study analysed how growth of the Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.) is influenced by site conditions throughout the Eastern and Southern Romanian Carpathians. In order to achieve the aim and the objectives stated in the present study, the volume of spruce stands was taken into...

Many organisms respond to anthropogenic environmental change through shifts in their phenology. In plants, flowering is largely driven by temperature, and therefore affected by climate change. However, on smaller scales climatic conditions are also influenced by other factors, including habitat...