In the combined forest site type Larch forests, dwarf pine, green alder and other montane shrub communities we have described and documented with many photographs natural open larch (Larix decidua) forests, more or less contiguous dwarf pine (Pinus mugo subsp. mugo) communities above the upper timberline, green alder (Alnus viridis) communities at similar altitudes, but usually on moister, shady slopes, the community with dominant Betula pubescens subsp. carpatica in the forest belt in cirques with accumulating snow slides, the communities with dominant Sorbus aucuparia and Rhododendron hirsutum or Alnus viridis, which are long-lasting stages in the overgrowing of montane pastures on subalpine beech forest sites, communities with dominant Rhamnus fallax, which are stages on very stony sites, including the belt along, possibly also below the upper timberline, and on sites where snow slides accumulate, and communities with dominant Salix appendiculata or S. waldsteiniana on similar stony and moist sites.
F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice
COBISS.SI-ID: 287380480Results of project were presented on European vegetation survey. We presented distribution of habitat types and results of monitoring of floodplain forests along Mura river.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 39714861We published an article entitled Important, but severly endangered floodplain forests along the Mura River. We described riparian forest habitats which belong into the frame of the Natura 2000 area, assess their conservation status and listed factors that threaten the favorable conservation status of these forest habitat types. We found that, according to the Habitats Directive, the conservation status of the three main forest habitat types (91E0*, 91F0, 91L0) are anything but favorable. The main threats are particularly fragmentation (agriculture), lowering of the groundwater, deepening the riverbed of the Mura River, weakened rejuvenation of key tree species, the emergence of invasive alien plant species and diseases of forest trees.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 60935010