REFOCuS Resilient riparian forests as ecological corridors in the Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve
Riparian forests of the Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve are important ecological corridors but at the same time are in unfavourable condition due to various reasons. For instance, these are increasing incidence of pests and diseases, unsustainable human activities and lack of guidance on how to manage riparian forest, especially when natural regeneration fails. On the other side, these forests are important for society in general due to provision of many services and benefits.
REFOCuS will than fight to counteract this decline by boosting riparian forest resilience. In order to achieve this goal, REFOCuS will:
- come up with novel silvicultural methods for forest management and conservation
- increase availability of appropriate planting material to be used when natural regeneration fails.
Photo by Aleksander Marinšek
REFOCuS consortium, led by Slovenian Forestry Institute, consists of 5 project and 6 associated partners from Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, geographically covering the whole territory of the Biosphere Reserve. The project implementation is organized in four thematic working packages:
1) Interpreting knowledge
2) Silviculture & conservation
3) Planting material availability
4) The policy interface.
Project management and communication packages act as a support for the thematic working packages.
Word cloud by Peter Železnik
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- Start date
- 01-06-2018
- End date
- 31-10-2021
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 1503076,78
- ERDF Contribution: 1101242,71
- IPA Contribution: 176372,54
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 2
- Priority
- Environment and culture responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Foster the restoration and management of ecological corridors
Library
| Filename | Date of upload | |
|---|---|---|
| Output O5.2 Database on planting material for riparian forests | 07-02-2022 20:11:17 | |
| Output O4.3 Training on Information system | 19-01-2022 09:04:35 | |
| Output O7.1 Forest health risk maps | 18-01-2022 11:48:13 | |
| Book - Perspectives for forest and conservation management in riparian forests | 07-01-2022 10:38:24 | |
| Output O6.2 Common regional forest reproductive material transfer procedure | 18-08-2021 10:10:06 | |
Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slovenian Forestry Institute | Lead partner | marjana.westergren@gozdis.si | SLOVENIA |
| Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape Austria | ERDF partner | silvio.schueler@bfw.gv.at | AUSTRIA |
| Croatian Forest Research Institute | ERDF partner | mladeni@sumins.hr | CROATIA |
| National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre | ERDF partner | lnagy@erti.hu | HUNGARY |
| University of Novi Sad, Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment | IPA partner | srdjan.stojnic@uns.ac.rs | SERBIA |
Project News
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REFOCuS - We can't predict future, but we can model it
- 22-10-2021
As we said in the title, we can't predict future, but during the REFOCuS project we modelled and developed maps of species occurrence probability under climate change along with maps of seed transfer zones and their predicted spatial change over...
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REFOCuS - FINAL STAKEHOLDER CONFERENCE
- 24-09-2021
The final REFOCuS stakeholder conference was organized on 12-13/05/2021 as a two-day hybrid event, where participants could attend either in person at the Hunting Lodge Peski premises in Djurdjevac (Croatia) or online via Zoom. The conference...
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REFOCuS - Early warning and rapid response are key for effective management of forest pests and diseases
- 21-09-2021
Almost all tree species in the central European riparian forests are currently threatened by different pests and diseases. Therefore, early warning and rapid response are key requirements for effective management of forests pests and...
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REFOCuS - Stakeholder insights - Key issues in Mura-Drava-Danube riparian forest management and conservation
- 14-09-2021
Stakeholders are important part of, not just Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve, but all protected areas. Sometimes, due to main point of interest, stakeholders can have different opinions and aims for protected area leading to potential...
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REFOCuS - NEW BOOK IS OUT!
- 11-08-2021
Are you a forester or conservationist looking for new knowledge to improve your practice, a student looking for comprehensive material, or just enjoy riparian forests and want to learn more? If so, we are pleased to introduce our newest...
