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Wooden archaeological finds and remains from early medieval wood utilisation as basis for identification of historical forest compositions and for derivation of future forest management plans supporting climate change adaption.

Project


Project code: 2218WK20A4
Contract period: 01.11.2019 - 31.10.2022
Budget: 451,333 Euro
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Keywords: silviculture, fir

Overall objective of ArchaeoForest is to improve the adaptability of forests to changing climate conditions. Ecosystem Services (ESS) provided by forests shall be secured, in particular ESS such as COs-sinking, the supply of raw materials and ecological functions. Results provide long-term information regarding such adaptability of natural forest communities and serve as basis for a better validation and modification of long-term oriented forestry concepts. In this terms, the reconstruction of historic natural forest communities in the Eastern Ore Mountains, Germany before and throughout the starting cultivation of forest due to the start of intense mining in the medieval warm period between the 10th and 13th century helps, to divided natural (climatic) and human influencing factors and allows to draw conclusions for a future long-term oriented forest management in the light of recent trends of climate change. Within work package no. 1 SachsenForst elaborates conclusions and recommendations for forestry on the basis of results and findings of investigations carried out by the University of Greifswald based on medieval archaeological wood finds provided by the Archaeological Heritage Office (LfA) of Saxony. Together with historical investigations of historical forest structures and compositions in the German Ore Mountains SachsenForst will develop concrete proposals and derivations of results to be integrated for future forest management strategies against the background of changing climate conditions to be expected. In particular results will be integrated into the further development of the Saxon directive on forest composition and forest types and will be presented via a public final project conference in Tharandt, Germany. Furthermore, SachsenForst supports the Archaeological Heritage Office of Saxony in the establishment of an dendro-archive for archaeological wood finds as climate archive in Dresden.

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Saxony state forestry service

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