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Project code: 4-04-089

IMPROVEMENT OF ECOLOGICAL STABILITY OF MEDITERRANEAN FORESTS

Main researcher: MEŠTROVIĆ, ŠIME (30571)

Assistants

TOMAŠEVIĆ, ANTE (49912)
PIČMAN, DRAGUTIN (70070)
BOŽIĆ, MARIO (900907)

Type of research: basic
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 12/31/94.

Papers on project (total): 42

Institution name: Šumarski fakultet, Zagreb (68)

Communication: Phone: 385 (0)1/218-288

Summary: The Mediterranean region of Croatica (Eumediterranean and Sub-Mediterranean parts) has 700,000 ha of forests. Mostly They are degraded forests of hornbeam and pubescent oak, coppice forest and evergreen oak maquis. Only in smaller areas there are nature forests of beech, evergreen oak, black and Aleppo pine and cultures of pine afforestated during past 100 years. The forests have been exposed to a great influence of man who by cutting, grazing and burning over centuries have been doing a big negative influence on forests. The importance of these forests is significant especially with development of tourism. Their role has been changed and it is not measured by production of timber mass but by particulary useful social functions. Protection of forests and man and his environment is getting importance although unsufficient. The idea of the project is to keep the economic level in Mediterranean forests of Croatia which will keep the stability of those eco-systems and make possible their gradual progress to move stable. By finding methods for helping nature in its progression and by their application, the protection of so important space for man will be made.

Keywords: Eco-system, stability. managing, burning, forest fires,progressive forest, teneing, silviculture

Research goals: The aim of the research is to find methods and ways to stop degradation, soil erosion and forest fires and to increse production. Therefore the main purpose is to achieve ecological stability. Stable eco-systems are the most productive both inprotection of environment and production of all goods in forest. The purpose of the research is- to find the most favorable economic aspects and management way aimed at stable forests inthe Mediterranean, to define the ways of teneing and regeneration of natural forests and cultures, to find species which would give the best results in reforestations and melioration of degraded areas, to manage accessories (medicinal herbs, fungi,resin,tannin substance etc.) and to valuate them, finding regulatives in processes of regression and progression of forests, to determine the influence of vegetation on environmental pollution. Applied scientific achievements are directly used in practice to make management plans and theirrealisations. In that way, for example- the results about growing of diferent species (pines, Douglas fir etc.), are used to show species for recultivation, regulations for forest management areused for planning in forestry, methods for measurement by Spiegelrelascope give more reliability to data colleting.

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