Διαδικτυακή Πύλη Συνεργασίας Για Τα Δάση

Ο παρών οδηγός παρέχει γενικές πληροφορίες προς τους αγρότες σχετικά με την έννοια της υγείας και της ασφάλειας, τις πτυχές της επιχειρηματικής δραστηριότητας που συνδέονται με αυτήν, τα σημεία που χρήζουν μεγαλύτερης προσοχής και τρόπους οργάνωσης για τη διασφάλιση του ελέγχου. Αποτελεί ένα εργαλείο για τον προσδιορισμό και την αξιολόγηση των επαγγελματικών κινδύνων: την εκτίμηση επικινδυνότητας. Το εργαλείο αυτό περιλαμβάνει περίπου 128 συνήθεις κινδύνους, τους οποίους μπορεί να λαμβάνονται υπόψη κατά τη διενέργεια των εκτιμήσεων επικινδυνότητας. 

In forest ecosystems, disturbances that cause tree mortality create canopy gaps, increase growth of understory vegetation, and alter the abiotic environment. These impacts may have interacting effects on populations of ground‐dwelling invertebrates that regulate ecological processes such as decomposition and nutrient cycling. A manipulative experiment was designed to decouple effects of simultaneous disturbances to the forest canopy and ground‐level vegetation to understand their individual and combined impacts on ground‐dwelling invertebrate communities. We quantified invertebrate abundance, richness, diversity, and community composition via pitfall traps in response to a factorial combination of two disturbance treatments: canopy gap formation via girdling and understory vegetation removal. Formation of gaps was the primary driver of changes in invertebrate community structure, increasing activity‐abundance and taxonomic richness, while understory removal had smaller effects. Families of Collembola and Diplopoda, as well as some families of Coleoptera, increased in combined canopy and understory disturbance treatments, whereas Curculionidae and Nitidulidae were more abundant in undisturbed forest. Gaps increased light availability, height and cover of understory vegetation, and soil moisture levels, and decreased depth and cover of leaf litter compared to undisturbed forest. Decoupling of canopy and understory vegetation disturbances revealed gap formation as an important short‐term driver of ground‐dwelling invertebrate community structure and composition. Our findings increase understanding of how ground‐dwelling invertebrate communities respond to disturbance and inform sustainable management of forest ecosystems to foster biodiversity and resilience.

Forest landscape restoration (FLR) requires a longterm commitment from a range of stakeholders to plan the restoration initiative collaboratively and see it through successfully. This is only possible when the people involved – whether they are landholders, indigenous groups, government entities, non-governmental organizations or other crucial actors – come together to define common goals and monitor progress toward those goals. Collaborative monitoring can play a crucial role in these processes by providing a structured way to include diverse stakeholders in FLR, generate local buy-in and catalyze social learning. However, collaborative monitoring is new to many FLR planners and, while they may be interested in implementing collaborative monitoring, they may not know where to start. This diagnostic provides a systematic way for FLR planners to assess their FLR initiatives against a checklist of success factors. The diagnostic helps practitioners to: (1) determine whether they are ready for collaborative monitoring; (2) identify what elements need to be strengthened; and (3) assess whether existing monitoring systems are on the right track. The diagnostic can be applied on at least two scales: it includes factors to be used at a specific FLR site and it outlines the factors that are intrinsic to a multilevel collaborative monitoring system. It consists of a core matrix of 42 success factors, plus suggestions for performing the assessment.

Παρουσιάζονται οι βασικές αρχές διαχείρισης και τα μέτρα που πρέπει να τηρηθούν και να παρθούν αντίστοιχα ώστε να επιτευχθεί η δημιουργία υγιών δασικών οικοσυστημάτων με μια επιθυμητή δομή και ποικιλότητα, τα οποία θα είναι ικανά για μια διηνεκή παραγωγή της μέγιστης δυνατής ποσότητας και άριστης κατά το δυνατό ποιότητας ξύλου διαφόρων κατηγοριών σε συνδυασμό με μια πολύ υψηλή κοινωφελή επίδραση και τη διατήρηση της βιολογικής ποικιλότητας και της οικολογικής ισορροπίας των οικοσυστημάτων.