Department of Vegetation Ecology

Restoration of coppicing management: a way to diversification of the societal, economic and ecological use of the forest potential in Central Europe

Project identification code:

  • TL02000314

Funding:

  • The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Principal investigator:

Time-frame:

  • 2019–2022

Co-investigators:

  • Faculty of Social Studies of the Masaryk University (Karel Stibral)
  • Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology Mendel University (Martin Šrámek)
  • Hnutí DUHA – Friends of the Earth Czech Republic (Jan Skalík)

Project description:

Aim of this project is to foster restoration of coppicing management in the Czech Republic. This concerns research on and overcoming constraints of a complex character. Solution therefore requires application-oriented research interconnecting several disciplines. Within the project, communication and information tools will be developed and applied involving forest managers, nature conservation and local administration bodies. We will also perform a field research at several sites, which will bring data used in project outcomes. At the end of the project, in 2022, outcomes will be reached through the above-mentioned procedures. The outcomes will serve for dissemination of information about the environmental, economic and social benefits of coppicing management.

Research team at the Institute of Botany CAS: