Content of lectures: The aim of the Forest Ecology course is to introduce major abiotic and biotic factors that influence forest ecosystem composition, structure, and function in boreal, temperate and tropical forests, with examples from our own research in african Cameroon, Himalayas, and NE Asia (Kamchatka, Japan and Korea). Reviews important processes that influence structure and function of forest ecosystems. Uses basic ecosystem concepts to elucidate influence of anthropogenic (including forest management) and natural disturbances on forest ecosystem structure and function. The Forest Ecology Practicum will introduce how to analyse forest age, size and spatial structures, how to reconstruct and link forest disturbances with tree regeneration and diversity, how to link forest diversities of different trophic levels (forest plants, insects, birds etc), how to analyze density-dependent neighborhood interactions (asymmetric light competition), density-dependent mortality, and how to relate tree growth dynamics with competition and climate. Field trip is planned to lowland oakwood and mountain-temperate beech-spruce-fir forests in Czech Republic and Slovakia. No Pre-Reqs is needed. Content of practices: Students will participate in an applied research project (eg exploration of habitat preferences of endangered plant and insect species, evaluation of tree mosrtality mechanisms in areas affected by drought, bark-beetle outbreak, etc. using annual ring growth analysis and wood antomy). On selected areas of both living and dead trunks will be mapped (using GPS and photomap), alongside with recording stand parameters (species composition and age structure, stocking, dead wood volume, undergrowth, etc.), fallen trunks (tree type, trunk diameter, degree of decay). The obtained data are then statistically processed by students. The practices will include an excursion focused on traditional forest management facilities. A field trip to southern Moravia is part of the course; students will visit traditionally managed forests (pollarding for eremit beetle - Vojkovice nad Svratkou, coppice with standards, pasture forest) as well as close-to-natural forests in Slovakia (Tatras).
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Altman J, Doležal J, Čížek L 2016. Age estimation of large trees: new method based on partial increment core tested on an example of veteran oaks. Forest Ecology and Management 380: 82-89..
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Altman J, Fibich F., Leps J., Uemura S., Hara T., Dolezal J. 2016. Linking spatiotemporal disturbance history with tree regeneration and diversity in an old-growth forest in northern Japan. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 21, 1-13.
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Altman, J., Fibich, P., Doležal, J., Aakala, T. 2014. TRADER: a package for Tree Ring Analysis of Disturbance Events in R..
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Altman J, Fibich P, Santruckova H, Dolezal J, Stepanek P, Kopacek J, Hunova I, Oulehle F, Tumajer J, Cienciala E 2017. Environmental factors exert strong control over the climate-growth relationships of Picea abies in Central Europe. Science of The Total Environment 609: 506?516..
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Altman J, Hédl R, Szabó P, Mazůrek P, Riedl V, Mullerova J, Kopecký M, Doležal J. 2013. Tree-Rings Mirror Management Legacy: Dramatic Response of Standard Oaks to PastCoppicing in Central Europe. PLoS ONE 8(2): e55770.. 2013.
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Cienciala E, Altman J, Doležal J, Kopáček J, Štěpánek P, St?hl G, Tumajer J 2017. Increased spruce tree growth in Central Europe since 1960s. Science of the Total Environment, 620, 1637-1647..
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Černý T., Kopecký M., Petřík P., Song J.S., Šrůtek M., Valachovič M., Altman J. & Doležal J. (2015). Classification of Korean forests: patterns along geographic and environmental gradients. Applied Vegetation Science 18: 5-22..
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Doležal, J., Altman, J., Vetrova, VP, Hara, T. 2014. Linking two centuries of tree growth and glacier dynamics with climate changes in Kamchatka. Climate Change 124: 207-220..
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Doležal J, Ishii H, Vetrova VP, Sumida A, Hara T 2004. Tree growth and competition in a Betula platyphylla-Larix cajanderi post-fire forest in central Kamchatka. Annals of Botany 94: 333-343..
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Doležal J, Lehečková E, Sohar K & Altman J 2016. Oak decline induced by mistletoe, competition and climate change: a case study from central Europe. Preslia 88: 323?346..
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Doležal J, Mazurek P, Klimešová J 2010. Oak decline in southern Moravia: the association between climate change and early and late wood formation in oaks. Preslia 82: 289-306.. 2010.
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Doležal J, Šrůtek M, Villar L 2004. Stand structure and regeneration of a mixed forest (Abies alba-Fagus sylvatica) in the Central Pyrenees, Ordesa National Park, Spain. Pirineos 158-159: 3-26..
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Doležal J, Št'astná P, Hara T, Šrůtek M 2004. Neighbourhood interactions and environmental factors influencing old-pasture succession in the Central Pyrenees. Journal of Vegetation Science 15: 101?108..
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Lanta et al. 2019. Active management promotes plant diversity in lowland forests: A landscape-scale experiment with two types of clearings Forest Ecology and Management 448: 94-103.
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Müllerová J, Pejcha V, Altman J, Plener T, Dörner P & Doležal J 2016. Detecting Coppice Legacies from Tree Growth. PLoS ONE 11(1): e0147205..
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Sebek et al. 2016. Open-grown trees as key habitats for arthropods 382: 172-181 in temperate woodlands: The diversity, composition, and conservation value of associated communities. Forest ecology and management.
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Sebek, P., Bace, R., Bartos, M., Benes, J., Chlumska, Z., Dolezal, J., Dvorsky, M.,Kovar, J., Machac, O., Mikatova, B., Perlik, M., Platek, M., Polakova, S., Skorpik, M., Stejskal, R., Svoboda, M., Trnka, M., Vlasin, M., Zapletal, M., Cizek, L. 2015. Does a minimal intervention approach threaten the biodiversity of protected areas? A multi-taxa short-term response to intervention in temperate oak-do-minated forests. Forest Ecology and Management 358: 80-89..
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Sohar K, Altman J, Leheckova E & Dolezal J 2016. Growth?climate relationships of Himalayan conifers along elevational and latitudinal gradients. International Journal of Climatology 37: 2593-2605..
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Tumajer J, Altman J, Štěpánek P, Treml V, Doležal J, Cienciala E 2017. Increasing moisture limitation of Norway spruce in Central Europe revealed by forward modelling of tree growth in tree-ring network. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 247: 56-64..
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Vera, F.W.M. (2000). Grazing Ecology and Forest History. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK. 506 pp..
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Weiss et al. 2019. Saproxylic beetles in tropical and temperate forests?A standardized comparison of vertical stratification patterns. Forest Ecology and Management 440: 50-58.
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