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Chair of Silviculture
Institution
Section overview
Description
The research at the Chair of Silviculture deals with questions regarding the manipulation of forest ecosystems to reach economic, ecological, and social management goals. The specific foci of research are on structure and dynamics of forests, carbon and nutrient cycles, ecological interactions in forest ecosystems as well as the adaptation of forests to global change. In addition, the consequences of forest management on ecosystem functions and processes are analysed.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Collaborative project: small private forests - energy wood supply and regional value. Subproject 2: Use intensity and use strategies
- Conservation of drougth tolerant and biodivers forests by natural rejuvenation through Quercus petraea
- Conservation of flora and fauna of dry locations through enhancement of pine forests in the so-called 'Trockenaue' on the Upper Rhine
- Decomposition dynamics and carbon storage lying dead wood of beech trees, spruce and pine
- Formulation of recommendations for sustainable floodplain-forest management tested for their practicability and with a particular focus on poplar forests to optimize the forest functions biodiversity, income and climate protection, with special regard to climate change and ash dieback disease
- PioWood: use of fast-growing pioneer tree species on forest areas to increase the biomass volume in the small timber sector
- Silvicultura instead Viticultura, silviculture instead of viticulture
- The impact of changes in the humus layer on the success and composition of tree regeneration
- The impact of structual, functional and tree species diversity on the temporal stability of productivity and efficient ressoure use in a tropical tree species diversity experiment
- Use of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to determine the mass and distribution of fine roots in forest soils
Involved in research projects
- Formulation of recommendations for sustainable floodplain-forest management tested for their practicability and with a particular focus on poplar forests to optimize the forest functions biodiversity, income and climate protection, with special regard to climate change and ash dieback disease. Coordination
- Natural forest development (5 per cent) as an objective of the national biodiversity strategy
Contact
Chair of Silviculture
Tennenbacher Str. 4
79106 Freiburg
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Phone: +49-(0)761-203-3678
Fax: +49-(0)761-203-3781
Email: waldbau(@)waldbau.uni-freiburg.de
