UL, Department for Forestry, actively participates in COST projects, in the projects of the 7th framework EU programme and in international organisations WWF (World Wildlife Fund), IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources), and IALE (International Association for Landscape Ecology).
In ARANGE, the University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical faculty, Department for forestry and renewable forest resources, Research group for forest management, planning and biometrics is a case study provider (Dinaric mountain forests), leads the subtask T1.3.1 (current and historical series of management practices in European mountain forests. UL’s key tasks are also the analyses of historic time series and the simulation of forest development under various management schemes (T2.3, T2.4).
Web site: www.bf.uni-lj.si
Persons involved:
Andrej Bončina
Prof. Dr., is full professor of Forest management and Forest planning at the Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, and the head of the research group. He has participated in several international projects, i.e. European Forest Reserves Network (COST E4), Indicators for monitoring and evaluation of forest biodiversity in Europe (BEAR), Nature-based management of beech in Europe (NAT-MAN), Protected Forest Areas in Europe (COSTE27), Expected Climate Change and Options for European Silviculture (COST FP703).
Aleš Poljanec
Dr., is teaching assistant and researcher at the Department. He founded the Silva_SI GIS based model for the detailed study of forest dynamics. He is partially employed in Slovenia Forest Service (SFS) as an international project coordinator (Karawanks@future.eu) and as an expert support for the SFS developmental tasks.
Matija Klopčič
Dr., is working as a teaching assistant and researcher. He investigates long-term dynamics of Dinaric mountain forests over the past 100 years and interdependencies between game populations, management systems, and changes of Dinaric mountain forests. His field of research are also natural disturbances and their influential factors.
Andrej Ficko
PhD student, specializes in forest planning in private forests, forest policy and economics in private forestry and the development of management planning tools in private forests. He will also take care for the technical support in all activities that UL is involved.
