MENDELU FFWT and the year 2020

28. 4. 2021

What was 2020 like at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology?

The year that was different in many ways due to the COVID-19 pandemic? The answers are given in the following recap of significant moments from life at the faculty:

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First joint conference of the Alpine and the Carpathian Conventions on large…

A transboundary character of wildlife populations, such as large carnivores, require enhanced international collaboration for successful conservation and management solutions. As large carnivore populations are recovering in Europe, this is even…

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Scientist from FFWT MENDELU studies how climate affects the life of iconic…

Along with his American colleagues, dendrologist Martin Šenfeldr has studied the relationship between climate and the growth of aspen trees (Populus tremuloides) in the Great Basin region of Nevada, focusing on a period of 100 years. During the…

5. 2. 2024
Return to coppicing supports spider biodiversity in protected lowland forests,…

Experts from the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology MENDELU (FFWT MENDELU) investigated how thinning forest stands and the subsequent development of the forest ecosystem affect communities of spiders living on the surface of the soil in…

3. 1. 2024
ASFORCLIC – Adaptation strategies in forestry under global climate change impact

From January 1, 2021, to date, MENDELU - Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic (coordinator) collaborated with seven European universities and research institutions from four European countries as a part of the EU-funded HORIZON 2020 project …

12. 12. 2023
Czech scientists create energy from mango pellets in Cambodia

Experts from the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology at MENDELU are helping to make use of waste from fruit processing while reducing the consumption of firewood in Cambodia. They use the mango pellets to produce fuel briquettes, which are then…

21. 11. 2023
Scientists take samples of driftwood in northern Norway. They aim to find out…

Scientists from FFWT MENDELU have completed a second mission in search of driftwood to the northern coast of Norway. As in 2022, they took samples of driftwood, which will be analysed in the MENDELU dendrochronological and anatomical laboratory. In…

30. 10. 2023
Maples plagued by sooty bark disease, which is also dangerous to humans

Sooty bark disease in Maples is caused by the fungus Cryptostroma corticale. The Sycamore is particularly susceptible. The fungus was apparently introduced to Europe after World War II from the Great Lakes region of North America. For many decades,…

15. 9. 2023
LDF researchers help kick-start forestry in Aragvi, Georgia

Georgia’s Aragvi – a newly established protected landscape area (PLA) of almost 100,000 hectares – is located in three separate valleys about 80 km north of the Georgian capital Tbilisi. “We are working in an area with harsh winters, sultry summers…

28. 8. 2023
FFWT MENDELU scientists have found a new way of using sewage sludge

FFWT MENDELU scientists have found a use for sewage sludge, an unavoidable by-product of the wastewater treatment process. By mixing stabilized sludge with other waste materials, glauconite and biochar, they obtained a substrate usable in forestry…

14. 8. 2023
Science team focuses on the decline of seagrasses, important ocean ecosystems

Seagrass beds are considered ocean rainforests. They are some of the richest marine ecosystems and play an important ecological role in the world of the seas and oceans. Globally, however, seagrass meadows are declining, with a species of seagrass…

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MENDELU FFWT and the year 2020

More news

First joint conference of the Alpine and the Carpathian Conventions on large…

Scientist from FFWT MENDELU studies how climate affects the life of iconic…

Return to coppicing supports spider biodiversity in protected lowland forests,…

ASFORCLIC – Adaptation strategies in forestry under global climate change impact

Czech scientists create energy from mango pellets in Cambodia

Scientists take samples of driftwood in northern Norway. They aim to find out…

Maples plagued by sooty bark disease, which is also dangerous to humans

LDF researchers help kick-start forestry in Aragvi, Georgia

FFWT MENDELU scientists have found a new way of using sewage sludge

Science team focuses on the decline of seagrasses, important ocean ecosystems

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