News
18 June 2026
The May meeting of representatives from the Czech and Austrian partners of the Interreg AT-CZ BioReMo project took place in the pleasant surroundings of the renovated school in Havraníky, in the Podyjí region. Among other things, the purpose of the meeting was to brief the partners on the progress of work on implementing the activities planned for the project’s second year. For the Landscape Research Institute, these activities primarily involve testing methods for collecting forestry data in accordance with the established methodology for monitoring forest habitats.
During the spring months of this year, detailed dendrometric measurements of standing and fallen tree trunks were conducted at selected sites in the Podyjí National Park and the Thayatal National Park. For this purpose, projects for these sites were created in QGIS based on data obtained through aerial and ground-based scanning. Currently, observations are being conducted at these sites to monitor the development of selected components of forest biodiversity. We plan to present the results of our research as early as September at a scientific conference organized by our project partner, the Podyjí National Park.
8 July 2025
The 4th dendrometry census at Velká Pleš natural forest (8.95ha) has started. All living and dead (standing and lying) stems with diameter of 100mm+ would be remeasured/added into datasets.
15 June 2025
27 May 2025
Repeated detailed census has started at 8 sites inside the Podyjí National Park core zones. Two sites (Lipina, Šobes) represent long term research, six small-size sites the icy disturbance (2014).
11 May 2025
The 3rd detailed tree census has started at core area of Ranšpurk natural forest (2015, 2020, 2025). All standing stems with diameter of 10mm and all lying stems with diameter of 100mm should be remeasured. Generally, it would be the 6th dendrometry census at Ranšpurk site (1973, 1994, 2006...).
3 July 2024
Research of the role of trees in hillslope processes and soil evolution. Read here.
27 May 2024
The 4th tree census (1975, 1995, 2011, 2024) in Zakova hora Natural Forest (17,44 ha) was accomplished. Both alive and dead stems with diameter of 100mm+ have been revisited.
13 July 2023
We finished 4th tree census (1975, 1997, 2008, 2022) in Zofin Primeval Forest (74,20 ha) on late spring. Both alive and dead stems with diameter of 100mm+ have been revisited. Also 3rd tree census (2012, 2017, 2022) on ForestGEO Zofin Dynamics Plot we did within this campaing. All stems with diameter of 10mm+ are under registration.
27 January 2023
Having had successful PhD thesis defense Spatio-temporal patterns of woody regeneration in natural temperate forests, Jan Holík finished his doctoral studies in the field of Forest Ecology at Mendel University in Brno. Congratulations!
2 January 2023
Soil age and denudation rates were studied in extremely species-rich steppe ecosystems, Romania. The soils started to form prior to the Last Glacial Maximum. The average, long-term erosion rates varied between 0.18 and 0.63 t ha-1 yr-1. During the last few decades, the erosion rates increased by a factor of 5–10. Large differences are caused by changes in human management of the soils. The biodiversity-rich forest-steppe landscapes are now under threat.
