Problems of Forest Management in Municipal Forests of the City of Poznań

Jaszczak, Roman; Wajchman, Sandra

doi:10.2478/ceer-2014-0005

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“…This form of nature conservation is used, for example, in Prague (Jarošík et al 2011a;Jarošík et al 2011b), Warsaw (Solińska-Górnicka and Symonides 1990; Obidziński and Symonides 2000), Budapest (Samu and Szinetár 2000) and in peri-urban areas of Zurich (Seeland et al 2002). However, there is difficulty in creating traditional, high-restrictive forms of nature conservation in highly-populated urban areas, where recreational areas are needed (Niemelä 1999;Seeland et al 2002;Jaszczak and Wajchman 2014).…”

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Ecological lands for conservation of vascular plant diversity in the urban environment

2016

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Conservation of biodiversity in urban areas has become crucial to urban green area management. There are several legislative solutions for preservation of species and habitats in cities. One of them is 'ecological lands' -a lowrestrictive form of protected areas in Poland. We aimed to assess their efficiency in vascular flora biodiversity conservation in the urban environment in Poznań (W Poland; 550,000 inhabitants). We hypothesized that ecological lands which cover <2% of the city area comprise over 50% of taxonomic diversity and over 90% of functional trait-level range of the vascular flora. Analysis of five ecological lands, which covered 1.8% of the whole city area confirmed our hypothesis. In ecological lands studied, we found 564 species of vascular plants, which is 52.9% of the whole city flora. These species belonged to 23 of 29 phytosociological classes represented in the whole city (73.9%). Functional trait distributions in ecological lands studied comprised from 95.8 to 100% of trait distributions in the flora of the whole city. Ecological lands seem to be a good way for conservation of biodiversity in urban areas. The legislative simplicity and low restrictiveness for both land management and recreational utility make ecological lands a much easier form of nature conservation which may be adapted to other cities for more efficient biodiversity management.

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Ecological lands for conservation of vascular plant diversity in the urban environment

2016

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“…In general, the management of forests is regulated by forest management plans. However, when it comes to urban forests in Poland, there is either a full or simplified version of the forest management plan [120,121]. Unfortunately, the arrangement of the content of FMPs needs consideration because they often include useless or too specific information [122].…”

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“…Additionally, to enable a comfortable rest, recreational facilities should take into account the possibilities and limitations of people with different psychophysical abilities and should implement the principle of "design for all". One of the high-potential solutions is to create sensory gardens within urban forest areas [120,121,125,126].…”

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Recreational Evaluation of Forests in Urban Environments: Methodological and Practical Aspects

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This literature review shows that there is no up-to-date common approach to assess the recreational potential of forests. The aim of the study is to present methodological and practical aspects of the evaluation of forests in urban environments for recreational purposes based on the example of urban forests in Poznań (Poland). In this research, the following evaluation criteria were selected: types of forest habitats, ages of dominant species, stand composition, stocking index, the share of undergrowth, soil cover, canopy closure, and surface water. All these criteria are presented in the forest management plan (FMP). We prove that the majority of stands within the study area (81.86%) have medium potential for recreational purposes. Moreover, regarding recreation services, documents existing within the study area are not specified enough. The undoubted advantages of the proposed method are a forestry perspective on the problem, a uniform dataset included in FMPs, data availability, and the possibility of comparing data from different areas.

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“…For instance, within these areas all thinnings (landscape, sanitary, regeneration, non-comercial) are limited as much as it is possible, and their realization is dependent on forest and landscape aesthetic, health and sanitary forest condition and safety of people on trails and roads. In case of regeneration, it is recommened to introduce not only native tree species, but also an admixture of exotic and decorative (larch, fir, red oak, maple, sycamore, white poplar, black poplar, elm tree) species [6,8,10,14,15,23,33,34,48].…”

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Forest Management as an Element of Environment Development

Jaszczak

Gołojuch

Wajchman-Świtalska

et al. 2017

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The implementation of goals of modern forestry requires a simultaneous consideration of sustainable development of forests, protection, needs of the environment development, as well as maintaining a balance between functions of forests. In the current multifunctional forest model, rational forest management assumes all of its tasks as equally important. Moreover, its effects are important factors in the nature and environment protection. The paper presents legal conditions related to the definitions of forest management concepts and sustainable forest management. Authors present a historical outline of human’s impact on the forest and its consequences for the environment. The selected aspects of forest management (eg. forest utilization, afforestation, tourism and recreation) and their role in the forest environment have been discussed.

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Problems of Forest Management in Municipal Forests of the City of Poznań

Cited by 5 publications

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Ecological lands for conservation of vascular plant diversity in the urban environment

Ecological lands for conservation of vascular plant diversity in the urban environment

Recreational Evaluation of Forests in Urban Environments: Methodological and Practical Aspects

Forest Management as an Element of Environment Development

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