7 Jahre Marteloskope in NRW: Erfahrungen aus der Praxis
Ein Artikel von Carolin Stiehl aus dem Jahresbericht 2023 des Zentrum für Wald und Holzwirtschaft. Lesen Sie den ganzen Jahresbericht 2023 hier.
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Biodiversity | Environment | Forestry | News 2024 | Research
New research on tree-related microhabitats in Europe
Tree-related Microhabitats (TreMs) are crucial for biodiversity since they host thousands of species. TreMs are discrete habitat patches borne by trees and cover a wide range of lifespans, from days to decades to centuries. The taxa associated with such discrete and sometimes highly temporary habitat patches are likely to be sensitive to spatial distribution because…
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Biodiversity | event | Forestry | News 2024
Where tradition meets transformation – Walking Austria’s forest floor at this year’s 10th Annual Integrate Network Meeting
“Autumn arrives, and our Integrate Meeting already comes along”, opens Bernhard Wolfslehner (EFI) this year’s Integrate Network Annual Meeting with a vivid reminder of our get-together in Luxembourg, “when we were watching bats and having a drink in a cave”. As is tradition by now, around 40 Integrate Members and other colleagues from within the network and beyond gathered end of October to discuss the European state of the art of Integrative Forest Management. This year, the current Integrate chair, Georg Frank, invited members to his home country Austria to draw attention to private forest ownership and to discuss integrative case studies and local measures for biodiversity enhancement.
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Using marteloscopes as training tool for conveying forest management practices – case example retention forestry
A new article was published by Jan Kadavý from the Department of Forest Management and Applied Geoinformatics, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno (Brno, Czech Republic) and his colleges, addressing the use of marteloscopes for teaching and training related to the application retention forestry. In the following paragraph we present the…
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Call: looking for forest enterprises practicing IFM
Our collaboration project TRANSFORMIT, aims to identify forestry enterprises in Europe that are practicing integrative forest management (IFM). Are there such enterprises in your region? If yes, please contact them, so they can be included in the project! In TRANSFORMIT, IFM is defined as an approach that aims at integrating biodiversity conservation and global change adaptation into…
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Can Marteloscopes be sites of encounter between climate activists and forest managers?
A new peer-reviewed paper looks at how silvicultural training sites, namely marteloscopes, can support dialogue and deliberate communication in times of conflict. As a collaborative effort, the study was led by FVA (Forest Research Institute Baden-Wuerttemberg) and co-authored by researchers from the European Forest Institute as part of Martelkom project. In recent years, climate change…
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Virtual tree marking in Italy
The annual meeting of the Pro Silva Italia Association took place in Oulx (TO) from September 26 to 28, organized in collaboration with the Alta Valle Susa Forestry Consortium. Among the various topics addressed, the meeting focused on the management of irregular high forests in mixed mountain conifer stands, through a practical exercise in the marteloscope, which is part of…
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Marteloskop-Übung im Tharandter Wald
Gastbeitrag von Erik Nestler (ANW Hochschulgruppe Tharandt) Die Anforderungen an unseren Wald und die Herausforderungen, denen sich Förster:Innen stellen müssen, nehmen stetig zu. Um den harmonischen Einklang zwischen Ökonomie, Ökologie und den Bedürfnissen der Waldbesuchenden zu schaffen, sind bei der Auszeichnung von Beständen sowohl Erfahrung als auch Übung essenziell. Der 120 Jahre alte, von Buchen…
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Managing forests virtually
Did you know that there are over 240 special one-hectare forest sites called marteloscopes in 26 countries that are used for field-based training and education of forestry professionals, students, forest owners, policy makers and even the broader public? This unique set of sites is brought together by the Integrate Network, facilitated by EFI. In a marteloscope,…
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“Biodiversity positive by 2030”: Exchanging Ideas on Biodiversity Conservation in Bologna
Article by Trishna Dutta The historical city of Bologna, famous for its university as being the oldest university in continuous operation in the Western world, hosted the 7th European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB) between 17-21 June 2024. With the theme “Biodiversity positive by 2030” and more than 1000 registrations at the congress, it was…
