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Determining the effectiveness of different approaches in the implementation of the forest order to prevent overpopulation of spruce beetles using the most effective pheromone preparation and traps
The project is investigating how different approaches to managing logging residues reduce the risk of spruce bark beetle overpopulation in surrounding forests. The research will be carried out at three sites in Slovenia.
ARRS CRP
Oddelek za varstvo gozdov
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
The impact of climate change on avalanches in Slovenia
Based on data from recent decades, this project will study new correlations between geographical variables, such as weather factors, and avalanches. Their occurrence will be determined through monitoring at two sites and assessed according to the current weather and snow-cover characteristics measured.
ARIS
Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
Oaks for future forests and forestry in Slovenia: Quercus robur versus Quercus petraea (J4-4541)
The project focuses on two temperate, ecologically and economically important oak species in Slovenia: Quercus robur versus Quercus petraea; their future distribution and growth potential.
ARIS
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
Drafting of the platform and guidelines for forest management in torrential forest areas (CRP V4-2212)
Forest management in torrential areas should pay special attention to soil erosion and erosion control measures, both in terms of construction and maintenance of forest infrastructure and silvicultural measures. This project aims to fill the gaps in forest management in torrential areas.
ARRS CRP
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
Planning of technologies and quality assessment of forest operations in support of the bio-economy
The main objective of the project is to provide guidelines for spatial planning of timber extraction technologies and quality assessment of forest operations (tending work and regular felling) and construction of forest roads.
ARRS CRP
Department for forest Technique and Economics
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
The process of adjusting and complementing the National Forest Program
The research project fully follows the objectives of the topic and at the same time includes one additional objective. It addresses an important issue of the strategic dimension of sustainable management of forest resources and the forestry sector, which is also addressed by new European initiatives in the fields of forestry, biodiversity, soil protection, climate change and the bioeconomy.
ARRS CRP
Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2024
Long-term changes of forest vegetation caused by global and local environmental change drivers
The objective of the postdoctoral research project is to analyse the direction, trend, and magnitude of changes in forest vegetation in Slovenian and European forests over the last decades. The aim is to ascertain whether the effects of changing global and local factors are reflected in the dynamics of forest vegetation.
ARIS
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2024
eForestry
In the forestry sector, eForestry will upgrade infrastructure and basic resources, connect stakeholders in the forest process through digitalization and centralization of processes, and ensure user-friendly digital public services. The digital transformation will thus ensure the rationalization of administrative and inspection tasks and, above all, more efficient and faster customer service.
Recovery and Resilience Plan
Department for forest Technique and Economics
Duration: 01.07.2022 - 31.12.2026
PathFinder - Towards an Integrated Consistent European LULUCF Monitoring and Policy Pathway Assessment Framework
It is often not the knowledge that hinders change but the acceptance of the knowledge by stakeholders and uptake in transformative policies. PathFinder aims to demonstrate a mobilization of scientific approaches in co-design of forest management pathways that navigate these trade-offs to identify the decisions and policies that act as steppingstones in achieving these pathways.
Horizon Europe
Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring
Duration: 01.03.2022 - 28.02.2025
Forest-wood value chain and climate change: transition to circular bioeconomy (P4-0430)
The overall objective of this research programme is to identify current challenges along the entire forest-based value chain and to search for optimal solutions by using all available knowledge and resources (laboratories and databases).
ARIS
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2027
Ecophysiological, morphological and growth response of fir and beech along the geographical gradient - basis for predicting future development trends (J4-3086)
List of Work Packages: WP1: Ecology of beech and silver fir WP2: Beech and silver fir growth responses WP 3: Wood anatomy characteristics of beech and silver fir WP 4: Monitoring beech and fir forests with time series of satellite images WP 5: Modelling and future response scenarios of beech and silver fir
ARIS
Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture
Duration: 01.11.2021 - 31.10.2024
Multipliers – Multiplayers' partnership to ensure meaningful engagement with science and research
The goal of the MULTIPLIERS project is to create opportunities for students to engage in research projects that are significant for sustainability, healthy living, and active, responsible care for others, the environment, and the future. MULTIPLIERS also aims to involve students and citizens in discussions about complex societal challenges, including climate change, energy transition, clean water, healthy nutrition, public health, and forest protection.
Horizon2020
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.11.2021 - 31.10.2024
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