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The studies initiated by Włoczewski in 1936 revealed changes in the species composition of forest stands in the Białowieża National Park. This led to the question about what these changes would be in the future. The aim of our study was to predict changes in the volume of tree species in the so called Strict Reserve in the Białowieża National Park over the period of 40 years. A size−class growth model...
The study presents a method of planning species composition of forest stands in mountain areas on the example of Beskid Niski Mts. (south−eastern Poland). The focus was on the species composition of forest stands growing in different conditions, taking into account the type of forest habitat and terrain characteristics: altitude, exposition and slope. The research was based on data stored in the Information...
Carabid beetles are frequently used as the environment condition indicators. Main purpose of this study was to test if community structure parameters of carabids indicate the stress intensity of heavy metal contamination in the soil of temperate forests. Three geographic regions in Europe differing in both degree of accumulation of heavy metals and its quality were chosen. In Olkusz (southern Poland)...
Stand characteristics are important factors influencing the biodiversity of the herbaceous plants that play important roles in the functioning and shaping the structure of the forest. This study investigates the relationship between the characteristics of the tree layer and the diversity of the herbaceous layer in the semi−natural remnants of the former Sandomierz Forest (Kolbu− szowa Plateau, SE...
The aim of this study was to characterize the texture of a primeval forest composed of Fagus sylvatica (L.), Abies alba (Mill.) and Picea abies ((L.) H. Karst). Empirical data were collected in the Babia Góra National Park (southern Poland) in the stand being under strict protection since 1934. 259 circular plots with a radius of 7.0 m and an area of 154 m2 each were established in nodes of 20×20...
Beavers activity i.e. dam building, burrows and canals digging and foraging, radically changes the environment at both abiotic and biotic level. The consequences of beavers activity for other organisms are visible mainly through changes in their habitats. Such changes influence the number, species composition and species diversity of numerous flora and fauna species. One group of species that also...
We used hyperspectral data from APEX scanner (288 spectral bands in 380−2500 nm spectral range; 3,5 m spatial resolution) to classify five tree species occurring in the area of Mt. Chojnik in the Karkonoski National Park (south−western Poland). Data used to delimit learning and veri− fication polygons were acquired during field research in August 2013, when ground truth polygons were acquired using...
The understory, a layer composed predominantly of shrubs that perform an important phytomeliorative function, has rarely been the subject of research on the productivity and biomass. The aim of this paper was to specify the occurrence of understory aged ≥10 years as well as its species composition and the share of individual species in the biomass in the Niepołomice Forest (S Poland). The analysed...
During the autumn 2010 and 2011, at the experimental fields of the Re-search Institute of Horticulture in Skierniewice, the species composition of phy-tophagous insect, occurring on winter onion crop, was determined. Observations were conducted on five cultivars of winter onion: ‘Elody’, ‘Hi-Keeper’, ‘Labra-dor’, ‘Sibir’ and ‘Swift’. Each of the cultivars were seeded in the middle of August, in the...
Wiosenne wypalanie roślinności łąk i nieużytków co roku stanowi duży problem związany z zagrożeniem pożarowym. Podkreśla się także niekorzystne oddziaływanie tego zjawiska na ekosystem. W doświadczeniu polowym zlokalizowanym w miejscowości Prandocin badano wpływ kontrolowanego wypalenia runi powstałej z wysianej mieszanki łąkowej na wybrane elementy siedliskowe i skład gatunkowy roślinności. Porównano...
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