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The Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius excavates nesting holes in big trees and use dead wood for foraging. It is considered as a key and an indicator species in the protection of biodiversity of forest ecosystems, because its cavities condition the possibility of breeding the biggest secondary cavity−nesters, bats, and some species of wasps. We studied preferences of the Black Woodpecker towards...
Modern research methods provide many new possibilities to reconstruct the history of species and the colonization of land after its release from the Pleistocene ice sheet. New laboratory techniques and research trends form another, new and interdisciplinary approach to these issues. In this paper, we present the history of plant and animal species during the last glaciation (Vistulian, 115−11.7 ka...
The aim of this paper was to evaluate the financial and economic resources efficiency of forest districts in the years 2008−2012 using a nonparametric approach of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA is a linear programming based method for evaluating the performance of comparable production units such as firms. The relative efficiency of compared forest districts is calculated with the Variable...
Białowieża Forest (BF) is widely known for its outstanding natural values. The debate about the management/protection model, able to maintain all relevant values of BF on a sustainable basis, has a very long history. Currently, the main role in this debate is played by groups and organizations claiming that the major threat for the biological richness of BF is related to local forest management. In...
Timber hauling from the forest, either directly to the consumer or to the place of transshipment for a rail transport, is carried out by vehicles adapted to the transport of long or short logs and medium−sized wood. In Poland, regulations restrict the total weight of a vehicle traveling on roads, which consists of the weight of the empty vehicle and the weight of the load. When transporting the wood,...
Fires that are one of the most classic disturbance of plant communities have had a great impact on the development of Scots pine communities. Restoration of vegetation disturbed by fire in this type of community starts almost immediately after disturbance. The intensity of fire significantly influences the future composition of vascular plant species and also the rate of change. The aim of the study...
Sustainable development and afforestation measures aiming to preserve the leading role of the forests are important elements of spatial, environmental and economic policies. The economic efficiency of afforestation schemes covering arable and other types of land was evaluated in view of the policies aiming to increase the afforestation rate and improve the land−use structure in the rural areas. The...
The article shows the problem of forest grounds rental rates determination. The study was conducted in the Kudypy Forest District (north−eastern Poland). It is often impossible to define rent based on the tender procedure, because only one entity is interested in using the ground or part of it. To solve such problem, the author proposed and tested the direct method of rent determination based on real...
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