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14. Forest genetic resources and forest reproductive material at the crosssection of multiple policy domains in EuropeTodora Rogelja, Laura Secco, Aurelio Padovezi, Davide Pettenella, Mauro Masiero, Elena Pisani, Jacopo Giacomoni, Riccardo Da Re, Sofia Caiolo, Marko Lovrić, Anna-Maria Farsakoglou, Michele Bozzano, François Lefèvre, Bruno Fady, Aurore Desgroux, Santiago C. González-Martínez, Ulla Ovaska, Mari Rusanen, Egbert Beuker, Katriina Soini, Anže Japelj, Konrad Heino, Martin Braun, Erik Dahl Kjær, Jon Kehlet Hansen, Georgeta Mihai, Alin Alexandru, Ecaterina-Nicoleta Apostol, Alicia Fernandez Calvo, Laura Maria Luquero Ramos, Mariano Navarro De La Cruz, Giovanna Ottaviani Aalmo, Bent Leonhard, 2023, published scientific conference contribution Keywords: forest genetic diversity, forest biodiversity, sustainable forest management, policy gap analysis, forest genetic resources, forest reproductive material
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19. Forest managers’ perspectives on environmental changes in the biosphere reserve Mura-Drava-DanubeMarcus Sallmannshofer, Rok Damjanić, Harald Vacik, Marjana Westergren, Tjaša Baloh, Gregor Božič, Mladen Ivanković, Gyula Kovács, Miran Lanšćak, Katharina Lapin, Laszlo Nagy, Silvija Krajter Ostoić, Saša Orlović, Srđan Stojnić, Peter Železnik, Milica Zlatković, Silvio Schueler, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: Riparian forests are particularly vulnerable to environmental change and anthropogenic influences because they are highly dynamic ecosystems, thus proper adaptation measures are crucial. The implementation of these measures, however, strongly depends on the actors’ perceptions of the specific problems occurring in such forests. For understanding the constraints of specific interest groups toward different adaptation activities, information in this field is essential. By conducting a questionnaire survey we explore how different types of forest managers, i.e., forestry professionals, forest owners, and conservation managers, perceive the effects of environmental change on forest management in the recently established Transboundary Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube. We show that these forest managers are highly aware of ongoing environmental changes and appraise deteriorating forest conditions, especially after observing changes themselves. Abiotic damage is expected to increase the most, followed by biotic damage, the spread of non-native species, and tree dieback. Nearly 80% of the survey respondents expect further changes and almost all of them intend to adapt their management of forests to mitigate or prepare for these changes. Nevertheless, we show differences in sensitivity to change and willingness to initiate adaptation actions by assessing adaptation thresholds: conservation managers appear generally more tolerant to changes, which results in higher thresholds to initiate management adaptation than forestry professionals
Keywords: biosphere reserve Mura-Drava-Danube, forest management, sensitivity to environmental change, stakeholder perception, adaptation thresholds, riparian forest tree species
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20. Hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) as biodiversity indicators for assessing urban forest habitatsMaarten De Groot, Primož Simončič, Andrej Verlič, Urša Vilhar, 2022, original scientific article Abstract: Urban and peri-urban forests are important habitats for maintaining biodiversity in cities. In this paper, we report a method for using hoverflies as biodiversity indicators in urban forest habitats. As a case study, forest habitats in three peri-urban and urban forests were assessed and compared to rural forests in Slovenia. Rožnik (Ljubljana) was chosen as the urban forest site, Mestni log (Ljubljana) and Brdo (Kranj) were chosen as the peri-urban sites, and eight sites were chosen in rural forests in different ecoregions in Slovenia. Forest hoverfly species richness and the species composition of different biological traits were compared between the peri-urban forests, urban forest and rural forest sites. In addition, species richness was assessed for changes in response to weather conditions between years. The number of species with the investigated traits in the urban and peri-urban forests was within the range of the number of species observed in the rural forests. The number of saproxylic species was higher in the urban forest but lower in the peri-urban forests compared to the rural forests. The proportions of species with different feeding modes and different development times were similar between the peri-urban, urban and rural forests. The proportions of species with development times of less than 2 months or more than 1 year and of predatory species were similar in the urban and peri-urban forests but higher in the rural forests. The species composition of the other biological traits differed between the peri-urban, urban and rural forests. Species richness and abundance displayed large differences in phenological patterns between 2012 and 2013; these differences are related to differences in the minimum temperature for these years. The results are discussed in relation to forest management in urban forests, the usefulness of hoverflies as a biodiversity indicator and possible extrapolation to other species groups.
Keywords: biological traits, ecosystem services, forest management, saproxylic species, Syrphidae, urban forest
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