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Northwest German Forest Research Institute (NW-FVA)
Institution
Section overview
- Description
- Activities
- Subordinate institutions
- Coordinated projects
- Coordinated collaborative projects
- Work package leader of collaborative projects
- Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Subordinate institutions as work package leader of collaborative projects
- Financed funding programmes
- Involved in research projects
- Contact
Description
The Northwest German Forest Research Institute (NW-FAA) is responsible for forestry research and practical advice possession of all forest types in Lower Saxony, Hessen and Saxony-Anhalt. 125 employees are working on the locations of Goettingen, Hann and Münden in the service of the forest and the forest owners. With the four areas of work forest growth, forest protection, forest genetic resources and environmental control is a wide spectrum of research covered. The preparation and placement of practical knowledge is based on an extensive network of experimental areas and natural forests.
Activities
- Funding
Subordinate institutions
Coordinated projects
- Collaborative project: Development of biological control measures against Dendrolimus pini by the egg parasitpoid Trichogramma dendrolimi, subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Development of biotechnological methods for the identification, conservation, propagation and use of selected maple trees with wavy grain for timber production - Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Effects of forest management on biodiversity with special emphasis on insects. Subproject 2: development and practical test of a monitoring system to evaluate the effects of forest management on biodiversity at the landscape scale (WABIN)
- Collaborative project: energy timber harvesting and material sustainability in Germany - EnNa. Subproject 2: Area and nutrient element data collection
- Collaborative Project: Risk management for biotic damages in forest stands for achieving sustainable forest management. Subproject 4: creation of standardized national guidelines for integrated pest management and demonstration of procedures in demonstration farms
- Collaborative project: Small private forests – conservation through resource use, subproject 1: Coordination, analyses on nature conservation and silviculture
- Cultivability and ecological compatibility of alternative tree species in the state of Saxony-Anhalt
- DSS-RiskMan - Decision support for the allocation and limitation of risks arising from climate change in forestry
- Effects of natural forest development on carbon storage and biodiversity
- Establishing a standard method for studying the genetic and adaptive differentiation of specific origins of the example of the shrub species, and Prunus spinosa, Corylus avellana
- Forest development scenarios for the Hessian Ried
- Forest soil calcification as a measure to increase the adaptability of forests to climate change and to safeguard and increase the CO2 storage and valley function of forests. Coordination
- Hute forests Distribution, biodiversity and strategies for the re-establishment of agroforestry forest utilisation
- MiStriKi - Minimizing the risk of storm damages in forests as regards climate change
- Model based risk assessment of oak processionary moth in climate change. Subproject 2
- New breeding and testing of previously unrecorded willow clones and varieties
- Permanent preservation of the continuity of the habitats of oak forests
- Revision of regional forest planning in Saxony-Anhalt as a contribution to climate change adaptation and sustainable safeguarding of forest functions
- Silvicultural strategies for adapting to changing climate conditions in the regions Harz and Lüneburg Heath
- Site factor water budget in the context of climate change
- Situational irrigation in the forests of the Hessian Ried to secure and restore moist oak and hornbeam forests that are environmentally friendly
- Sub-projects coordination, material and water balance forest, forest protection, forest growth, silviculture, sustainability, forest conservation
- WaVerNa - Nature conservation contracts in forests - Analyzing options of forest ecology, economics, and legitimation. Subproject 2: Nature conservation forest ecological analysis
- WEIPOL - soft hardwoods unused resource potential?
Coordinated collaborative projects
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Adaptation strategies of forest hygiene facing an increasing potential of pathogens in vulnerable regions with regard to climate change and the growing number of restrictions. Subproject 2
- Altered productivity and carbon sequestration of German forests in the face of climate change: (i) model development with data sets of soil inventory (BZE) and European Level I monitoring plots and (ii) model applications on an expanded dataset of the National Forest Inventory (BWI) - WP-KS-KW. Subproject 3
- Analysis and projection of the storm damage sensitivity of forests (EH-3-I)
- Breeding of new energy poplars for Germany; Subproject 3: Provision of material and testing
- C-and N-budget along Transects by small clear-cuttings in spruce forests with special emphasis on the stroke spoil (package request Beese / Gravenhorst / Meiwes)
- CO2 sequestration by wood (Study for Lower Saxony)
- Collaborative project: Breeding fast growing tree species of the genus Populus, Robinia and Salix for the production of renewable resources in the short rotation. Subproject 1: Evaluation, breeding, genetic characterization and variety testing of black and balsam poplars and willows
- Collaborative project: origin control of forest reproductive material by means of stable isotope; Subproject 1: Origin control of beech and maple
- Collaborative project: origin control of forest reproductive material by means of stable isotope; Subproject 3: Examination of plants and variable and environmental influences on the stable isotope ratio
- Collaborative project: SmartForest - Application of Transponder Technology and Wireless Sensor Networks in Forestry – Subproject 4
- Collaborative Project: SNP diagnostic of plant breeding relevant properties in Salicaceae, Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Utilisation-oriented investigations of low-value hardwood assortments for the production of innovative products. Coordination and Subproject 1: Tree species specific potential analysis of deciduous timber
- Conservation and protection of oak trees as a habitat and economic tree species in a changing climate
- Detection of clone-site interactions in poplar and willow on agricultural sites in short rotation - Project phase II
- Development of a Decision Support System for forest planning on operational and regional level
- Development of a management module for dead wood in the forest operation
- Digital harvest registration register for indigenous woods Saxony-Anhalt
- Evaluation of selected seed stocks in Lower Saxony
- Fight against the oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea prozessionea L.) with nematodes using helicopter-based application
- Forest in the Rhine-Main region - risks and adaptation measures for forest management as a result of predicted climate changes in Hesse
- Forest species lists of fern and flowering plants, mosses and lichens in Germany
- Identification and protection of forests with a priority for biodiversity conservation
- Increasing the efficiency of breeding fast-growing tree species with the help of chlorophyll fluorescence measurement as a pre-diagnostic performance parameter
- Indicators of phosphorus availability and supply in forest soils and their relationships to the phosphorus nutritional status of common beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)
- Integration of forest planner tool in forest operation
- Joint Project BEST: strengthening bioenergy-regions - new system solutions in the field of ecological, economic and social requirements - Sub-project: smallwood potential forest: decision tools to ensure sustainable raw timber for material and energy recovery
- Joint project: Decision Support System Forest and Climate - adaptation strategies for sustainable forest management under changing climatic conditions. Subproject: forest planning - biotic forest protection risks
- Joint project: growing fast-growing tree species for the production of renewable resources in the short term (FastWOOD), sub-project 1: evaluation, selection, genetic characterization, and performance, resistance and production testing of black and balsam poplars and willows
- Natural forest development (5 per cent) as an objective of the national biodiversity strategy
- Natural forest development and implementation of wilderness areas in National Heritage (WiNat) - Subproject 2: deadwood and structure of mature forest development stages
- Nature conservation in public forest
- Optimization of the monitoring and recording of abiotic and biotic damages benefiting from climate change in forests in Saxony-Anhalt through the use of remote sensing techniques
- Pilot study on local impacts of climate change on forestry in selected regions of Saxony-Anhalt
- Possibilities and limits of the full tree utilization
- Principles and strategies for the procurement of high quality and adaptable forest reproductive material under climate change
- R3 - Climate Change in Northern Hesse - Analysis of the effects and derivation of adaptation strategies for forest management on the example of forests in the catchment area of Fulda
- Risks and adaptation strategies for forests as a result of predicted climate change in Saxony-Anhalt
- Securing the coniferous raw wood-supply in Northern Germany, Subproject Wood volume and use oriented forest planning for coniferous species
- SILVAQUA - Effects of forest management on the quality and quantity of leachate and surface water in forested catchment areas
- Soft hardwoods - Untapped potential raw material?
- State-of-the-art analysis on scientific and technical methodological aspects
- Studies on the adaptability of Hessian beech forests to changing climate conditions
- Study of the local forest protection risks in selected regions of Saxony-Anhalt
- Study on the effects of climate change in Saxony-Anhalt - Part Forestry
- Subproject F1: Mass and water balance of forests in German Northern Lowlands
- Subproject F3b: Risk assessment and risk management root pathogenic fungi, bark beetles and jewel beetles in forests
- Subproject F4: Silviculture in German Northern Lowlands under changing climate and market conditions (F4)
- Zoological Research in Hessian natural forest reserves
Subordinate institutions as work package leader of collaborative projects
Financed funding programmes
Involved in research projects
- Agricultural Extreme Weather and Risk Management Possibilities
- Biological control of forest cockchafer
- Collection and documentation of genetic resources of black poplar (Populus nigra) in Germany
- Development of integrated plant protection methods in forests
- Diagnosis of pathogens of various pest insects in agriculture and forestry and prognosis of pest outbreaks
- Diagnostic investigations of cockchafer grubs from Hessia
- Forest management in approved stands in the beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) for the production of genetically high-quality and adaptable reproductive material - Buchensaatgut
- Growth potential of oak in managed and unmanaged forest dependent on stock structure and site conditions
- Joint Project BEST: strengthening bioenergy-regions - new system solutions in the field of ecological, economic and social requirements. Work package SÖB 2 (socioeconomic assessment): Local value added analysis
- Joint project: investigation and assessment of soil functions and derivation of solution strategies for a soil-protective timber harvest; Subproject 2: soil physical data and measuring sensors
- Pilot study on the genetic monitoring of beech (Fagus syslvatica) and wild cherry (Prunus avium)
- Preparation, conduction and evaluation of the German National Forest Inventory as well as processing of the results.
- R1 - Development and evaluation of adapted cultivation and utilization concepts for energy crops in the catchment areas of rivers in northern Hesse
- Rare domestic tree species in Bavaria - climate-dependent growth and yield of sorb-tree (Sorbus domestica L.), service tree (Sorbus torminalis (L.) CRANTZ), field maple (Acer campestre L.), sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.), small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata MILL.) and hornbeam (Carpinus betulus L.)
- Revaluation of insect pests and forest diseases considering climate change.
- Strengthening bioenergy-regions - new system solutions in the field of ecological, economic and social requirements. Subproject 3: climate protection achievements of bioenergy
- Sustainable Land Management in the North German lowlands under changing environmental, ecological and social conditions (NaLaMa-nT). Subproject L3: development of agricultural production
Contact
Northwest German Forest Research Institute
(NW-FVA)
Grätzelstr. 2
37079 Göttingen
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 551 - 69401 - 0
Fax: +49 (0) 551 - 69401 - 160
Email: zentrale(@)nw-fva.de
