Journal Article

Forests in the Krkonose/Karkonosze National Parks: their restoration, protection and management in the context of changes ongoing in the Central-European forestry/Lesy v Národních parcích Krkonose/Karkonosze: jejich obnova, ochrana a management v kontextu zmen probíhajících ve stredoevropském lesnictví

Fanta, Josef

2013

نظرة عامة

In Central Europe, mountain areas still remain valuable islands of nature and biological diversity in spite of their long-continued use by man. That is why some of them were declared national parks and/or landscape protected areas. In most parks, forests cover more than 80 % of their area, which explains the importance of a well-considered protection and protective management of these forests. Such management is highly demanding in terms of conceptual decision-making, development of scientific information and qualifications of national parksmanagement teams. Moreover, research and monitoring should be components of national park's activities. Similar to commercial forests, forests in national parks have been affected by disturbances - both natural (windstorms, insect plagues) and caused by man (e.g. industrial emissions). Often, they are combinations of both and affect/enhance each other. As a result, the conversion from commercial to protective management is a problematic task for all authorities involved. Ongoing climatic instability with unexpected extreme fluctuations makes the matter still more complicated and further emphasises the need for a well-founded conceptual approach to the management of these forests: protective management leading to development of self-sustaining forest ecosystems.In this review, special attention is paid to the successful restoration of mountain forests in the Krkonose National Park, Czech Republic, heavily disturbed by acid deposition in the 1980s.

• الناشر: Správa KRNAP
• موضوع: Environmental management / Environmental protection / Environmental restoration / Forestry / Forests / National parks