| title: | Maintaining the structural elements of old forests and biological diversity in forest management |
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| reg no: | ETF5257 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| subject: |
4.3. Sylviculture, Forestry |
| status: | completed |
| institution: | University of Tartu |
| head of project: | Raivo Mänd |
| duration: | 01.01.2002 - 31.12.2004 |
| description: | The main aims: 1. to find methods of quantifying forest management intensity, relevant for determining the impact of management to biological diversity in landscape scale; 2. to determine the relationships between abundance, distribution, characteristics and occupancy of structural key-elements of forests (dead trees, very old living trees, cavity trees etc.), and the management regimes of forests; 3. to assess the extent at which the structural key-elements are aggregated to protected areas and key habitats; 4. to explore the relationship between the survival and occupancy of retention trees with the characteristics of the trees and logged areas; 5. to model the distribution of (selected) threatened species on the basis of official forest survey variables and landscape structure to predict their habitats in managed forest areas. Project output: 1. Scientific papers summarizing the results on subjects of the theses listed below; 2. PhD thesis of P. Lõhmus "Diversity and dispersal of epiphytic and epixylic lichen species in forests in relation to the amount and distribution of substrata in the landscape"; 3. PhD thesis of A. Lõhmus "Habitat selection in forest birds: variability of preferences and its relationship with population dynamics"; 4. MSc thesis of R. Rosenvald "Changes in forest landscapes and their relationship with the occurrence of protected bird species; 5. MSc thesis of K. Alamets "Relationships between landscape variables and the distribution of forest birds"; 6. MSc thesis of R. Kinks "Breeding success, home-range size and foraging habitat selection in the White-backed Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) in managed and unmanaged forests"; 7. MSc thesis of J. Remm "Occurrence and occupancy of tree cavities in managed and unmanaged forests"; 8. MSc thesis "Survival of retention trees in relation to the characteristics of the trees and logging areas". |
| project group | ||||
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Asko Lõhmus | Univ. Tartu | PhD student | |
| 2. | Piret Lõhmus | Univ. Tartu | PhD student | |
| 3. | Raivo Mänd | University of Tartu | professor | |
| 4. | Hardi Tullus | Est. Agric. Univ. | professor | |
| 5. | Kai Vellak | Est. Agric. Univ. | researcher | |