Department of Forest Ecology

Ecology of ecosystems and plants

• Assessment of the structure and functioning of forest ecosystems in the conditions of global climate change.
• The impact of disturbances (e.g. hurricanes, fires, floods, industrial pollution) and forest management on the growth and development of forest ecosystems in Poland.
• Problems of regeneration of forest habitats in degraded areas (e.g. post-agricultural lands, training grounds, workings).
• Space-time analyzes of forest complexes.
• Dynamics of physical and chemical changes as well as biological processes occurring in forest soils under various conditions of the natural environment.
• Improving the typological classification of forest habitats.

Animal ecology

• Development dynamics of selected animal populations in forest ecosystems,
• Improving the methods of assessing the number and controlling the density of selected forest animal populations,
• Assessment of hunting management of forest biotopes.
• Assessment of the regulatory function of predation, parasitism, competition and interspecies cooperation.

Water management in forest areas

• Methods of increasing water retention and managing water resources in forests.
• Influence of the degree of forest cover, forest distribution as well as habitat and tree stand features on the water cycle in catchments.
• Monitoring of changes in water resources in forests and the circulation of water, nutrients and heavy metals in the forest environment.