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Forest Research Institute of Baden-Wuerttemberg (FVA)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Forest Research Institute of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Freiburg (FVA) is your contact for all questions about forests and forestry. Within the framework of research and development projects its purpose is to acquire target-oriented, practical and concrete policies as well as information for forest owners, foresters and the interested public. FAA is the operating research institute of the National Forest Administration and is assigned to the Ministry of Food and Rural Areas in Stuttgart.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
Coordinated projects
- Adaptation strategies of forest hygiene facing an increasing potential of pathogens in vulnerable regions with regard to climate change and the growing number of restrictions. Subproject 1
- Adaptive risk management in oak and pine forests vulnerable to drought via integrative evaluation and flexible damage thresholds
- Alterations in the lifetime of forest stands: Economic consequences of climate change for forestry enterprises. Model evaluation based on independent test area data (Module 2) as well as income and risk situation of real forestry enterprises (Module 5)
- AQUAREL - Origin and adaptation of oaks on relict sites
- Assessment of adaptaion potentials, groth plasticity of spruce, fir and Douglas fir as regards forecasted climatic changes in the Black Forest
- Biomass from short rotation and miscanthus - Research for the production of energy wood in Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Carbon and Timber stock of the German forest - Improvement of projections of current and future CO2 stock by means of ecophysiological and empirical forest growth models
- Collaborative project: Adapted forest and fire management in the face of climate change (forest fire-climate resilience). Subproject 2: Information exchange forest / fire brigade and integration into KoNeKKTiW network
- Collaborative project: energy timber harvesting and material sustainability in Germany - EnNa. Subproject 1: Biomass function, material balances and usage scenarios
- Collaborative project: Influence of growth conditions on the quality of Douglas fir stand from the experimental fields in Baden-Württemberg , subproject 2: Quantification of roundwood
- Collaborative project: Optimizing the forest-factory timber supply chain by analyzing, assessing and refining methods of round timber measurement and supply chain operations in timber sales
- Collaborative project: Plus-tree selection and clonal propagation of new Juglans hybrids
- Control variables of humus layer properties: effects on the thermal-hydrological functions of forest soils
- Demonstration project: Conservation of the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior). Coordination, economics, knowledge transfer
- Development of a data-driven forest management model for the Forest Development and Wood Supply Modelling as a basis for a Forest Reference Level for greenhouse gas reporting
- Development of a management strategy of European Spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) using the anti-aggregation pheromone verbenone in SPLAT®Verb.
- Development of predictive models to derive regional wood energy potentials from the forest
- ERA-WoodWisdom: Fast Forests; Studies on the wood quality of Douglas fir, taking into account the growth speed and silvicultural treatment
- Forest soil calcification as a measure to increase the adaptability of forests to climate change and to safeguard and increase the CO2 storage and valley function of forests
- Impacts of climate change on the forests of Baden-Württemberg
- Joint project: cost reduction and efficiency management of short machinations (Era-Net Bioenergy - CREFF), Project 1: Development of improved harvesting methods and logistics for the management of short-Umtrieb plantations with particular reference to surface area and surface location
- Lynx in Baden-Württemberg
- Model based risk assessment of oak processionary moth in climate change. Subproject 1
- oint project: Scientific Management and coordination of the German National Support Group of the Forest-based Sector Technology Platform (FTP) - sub-project 'Forestry' and Coordination of
- Site factor water budget in the context of climate change
- The potential of industrial and commercially used areas as stepping stone biotopes for wildlife
- Threatening new diseases in silver fir - current distribution, etiology, prospects and recommended actions
Coordinated collaborative projects
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Altered productivity and carbon sequestration of German forests in the face of climate change: (i) model development with data sets of soil inventory (BZE) and European Level I monitoring plots and (ii) model applications on an expanded dataset of the National Forest Inventory (BWI) - WP-KS-KW. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project Mobility@forest, subproject 4: Analysis of software environments and integration of the mobile data acquisition into business processes of forest businesses
- Collaborative Project: Effects of nature conservation requirements on the forestry and wood industry; Subproject 1: Restricted Forest Management (Reforma)
- Federal Forest Inventory 2: analysis of the data for damage caused by game animals
- Further and more detailed analysis of the Bundeswaldinventur2 data from the points of closeness to nature and biodiversity
- Highly structured mixed coniferous forests - the management of growth, transfer and assessment of possible uses
- Joint project development of the statistical design of BZE II, Project FVA Freiburg
- Of the atmosphere into the soil – how pressure fluctuations influence in-soil gas transportation
- Overcoming of hindrances which prohibit adaptation of forest ecosystems by the means of networking, social learning and risk management. Competence Network Climate Change, Risk Management and Transformation in Forest Ecosystems Abstract - KoNeKKTiW. Subproject 1
- Project 2 - Collaborative project development of the statistical design of BZE II, Project FVA Freiburg
- WoodWisdom-Net: AGROCOP - agroforestry systems of quality timber trees and short rotation coppice as a temporary use, sub-project: coordination, establishment and evaluation
Involved in research projects
- Altered survival period of wood ressources: Economical effects of climate change on forestries - subproject 2
- Changes in tree pathogenic due to climate change and its implications for silvicultural approaches
- Collection and documentation of genetic resources of black poplar (Populus nigra) in Germany
- Data collection on the use of of plant protection agents in the forest; Participation in the collection and evaluation of anthropogenous immissions regarding forest damage
- Detection of clone-site interactions in poplar and willow on agricultural sites in short rotation - ProLoc (income program / locus)
- Establishment of a genetic monitoring system for beech and spruce trees in Germany to assess the genetic adaptability of tree species against environmental changes
- German Contribution to the Harmonisation of National Forest Inventories in Europe – Techniques for Common Reporting
- Investigation of relevant factors for modelling the durability and service life of wood in construction use by field tests and monitoring in service
- Molecular biological differentiation of Beauveria brongniartii
- Molecular biological distinction between field and forest cockchafer
- New assessment of the forest protection situation in respect to climate change
- Pilot study on the genetic monitoring of beech (Fagus syslvatica) and wild cherry (Prunus avium)
- Preparation, conduction and evaluation of the German National Forest Inventory as well as processing of the results.
- Quantification of the carbon stocks and carbon sequestration in urban trees
- Quo vadis Pollen?
- Rare domestic tree species in Bavaria - climate-dependent growth and yield of sorb-tree (Sorbus domestica L.), service tree (Sorbus torminalis (L.) CRANTZ), field maple (Acer campestre L.), sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.), small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata MILL.) and hornbeam (Carpinus betulus L.)
- Suitability of the SILVA growth simulator for depicting conversion from homogenous coniferous forests to forests of varied structure
- WIKI Web2.0 for the Competence Network climate change, crisis management and transformation of forest ecosystems - WIKI4KoNeKKTiW
Contact
Forest Research Institute of Baden-Wuerttemberg
(FVA)
Wonnhaldestraße 4
79100 Freiburg
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)761 / 4018 - 0
Fax: +49 (0)761 / 4018 - 333
Email: Kornelia.Renner(@)forst.bwl.de