Active projects
Arhiv projektov
ROVI – Innovative radar and optical satellite image time series fusion and processing for monitoring the natural environment
Earth observation plays an important role in achieving sustainable development by providing spatial information to support policy, planning, and decision making. The serious changes in the natural environment are becoming societal problems hence detailed and uptodate information is essential. The proposed project aims to contribute to this challenge by developing advanced solutions for monitoring and predicting processes in the natural environment. We focus on satellite-based observation of grasslands, wetlands, and forests, because these are valuable habitats as well as some of the most important natural carbon sinks.
ARIS
Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring
Duration: 01.10.2021 - 30.09.2024
The unrevealed information on soil biodiversity in leached waters (J4-3098)
The project aims to join in the team relevant national soil research institutions from various soil management environments (forests, arable soils, permanent crops areas, pastures, meadows) for bringing together current soil biodiversity monitoring approaches from different soil managements, standardise them at the comparable level, supplement these approaches with the proposed eDNA methodology, test the feasibility and reproducibility of the eDNA approach on specific research questions in various soil management environments, compare eDNA results with classical soil DNA biodiversity for standardisation, and finally propose the monitoring-level eDNA based methodology to existing soil biodiversity monitoring programmes.
ARIS
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.10.2021 - 30.09.2024
FORGENIUS
FORGENIUS is a H2020 project, funded by the EU, which will give an insight into the diversity of European forests and their resilience to climate change. The project uses state-of-the-art technology and knowledge in plant and evolutionary biology, ecology, remote-sensing, genomics, genetics, modelling, and forestry. It aims to upgrade the current European Information System on Forest Genetic Resources (EUFGIS) platform, by adding new types of data and information on the Genetic Conservation Units, allowing predictions of the fate of European forests in the short, medium, and long term.
Horizon2020
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2025
LIFE BEAVER - LIFE with the beaver, wetlands and climate change
In the project, researchers from the Slovenian Forestry Institute will assess the value of ecosystem services provided by beavers and create a model of the potential spread of the beaver population. It is high time that people adapt to the changes brought to aquatic environments by beavers, and not the other way around. Therefore, the LIFE BEAVER project welcomes the return of the beaver. The partners will make every effort to ensure that residents living near water bodies in Slovenia and Croatia accept the return of the beaver.
LIFE
Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring
Duration: 01.09.2020 - 30.04.2025
LIFE SySTEMiC - Close-to-nature forest Sustainable Management under Climate Changes
The aim of the LIFE SySTEMiC project (Close-to-nature foreSt SusTainablE Management under Climate Changes) is to use the “tool” of genetic diversity to protect our forests against climate changes. The basic idea is relatively simple: the higher the genetic diversity of the trees in a forest, the more likely it is that some trees will have genetic characteristics that make them more adaptable to climate change, thereby increasing the resistance and the resilience of the forest system.
LIFE
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.09.2019 - 31.08.2024
LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE
The project is based on the connections between sustainable mobility, energy efficiency, sustainable land use and practices for the transition to a low-carbon economy. It strives to help solve one of the most pressing issues of modern societies — the climate crisis. The Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI) is responsible for the activities relating to the land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) sector, establishing the methodology for monitoring carbon stock at the national level for all land uses, the implementation of pilot projects, building professional and governance capacities and awareness-raising.
LIFE
Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring
Duration: 01.01.2019 - 31.12.2026
LIFE-IP NATURA.SI - LIFE Integrated Project for Enhanced Management of Natura 2000 in Slovenia
In the project, SFI will analyze and create habitat suitability models for seven selected Natura 2000 forest species (2 owl species and 5 beetle species) in collaboration with the National Institute of Biology. We will also analyze the state of three selected Natura 2000 moss species (analyzing major knowledge gaps for the three selected moss species, preparing proposals to address these gaps, and conducting a survey of the coverage of target moss species with the existing national monitoring scheme)
LIFE
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.09.2018 - 31.12.2026
eLTER – INTEGRATED EUROPEAN LONG-TERM ECOSYSTEM, CRITICAL ZONE & SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
LTER-Slovenia brings together 16 highly equipped research sites where long-term socio-ecological research is conducted at two underground karst sites, two freshwater lakes, 11 terrestrial forest platforms and one marine site. These ecosystem research sites support, enhance and promote national and international multi- and interdisciplinary investigations of long-term biodiversity and ecosystem processes at different spatial and temporal scales. LTER-Slovenia has been on the national research infrastructure roadmap since 2016.
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.01.2015 - 31.01.2025
The Forest of Experiments
An activity that translates many scientific research findings and expert conclusions into language accessible to the public. Our educational work is conducted by researchers from various fields following the principles and methods of forest pedagogy. Forest pedagogy is an approach to environmental education connected with the forest and our relationship with it. We offer training for educators, the interested public, and youth. We participate in the development of environmental education in Slovenia and are active internationally.
Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring
Duration: 18.07.2014 - 18.07.2027
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