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
- 31-05-2021
- 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 O4.1 Demonstration sites for stakeholder education - Notice boards | 13-10-2020 10:20:10 | |
| Output O3.3 Transnational seed transfer zones | 15-05-2020 09:24:32 | |
| Output O3.1 Recommendations on tree species to use and promote | 16-01-2020 12:00:59 | |
| Output O3.2 Spatial analysis of the riparian corridor habitats | 14-11-2019 08:28:34 | |
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 - Take a look at our new notice boards for stakeholder education!
- 06-11-2020
Written in local languages they cover various topics related to riparian forest management and conservation. These include dealing with invasive species, what to do when natural regeneration fails and much more. At the moment many of these can be...
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REFOCuS - How to harmonise forest management planning and nature conservation in riparian forests of Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve?
- 28-10-2020
This was the leading question of our latest stakeholder workshop organised online on 15 October 2020 by the Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment (ILFE). It gathered 21 participants from all REFOCuS countries. Discussion helped in...
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REFOCuS - You can be a forest superhero too!
- 27-10-2020
Professional forester? Nature conservationist? Forest visitor? Spotted forest pest or disease in riparian forests of Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve? You did? Please share with us your finding via DanubeForestHealth platform. Be our forest...
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REFOCuS - Announcement of three online stakeholder workshops to be held in October 2020
- 22-09-2020
Announcement of three online stakeholder workshops to be held in October 2020 All interested please contact: Dr. Peter Železnik (peter.zeleznik@gozdis.si) Looking forward to collaborative learning and sharing our...
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REFOCuS - Transboundary plus-tree selection continues
- 05-03-2020
Croatian Forest Research Institute continues with plus-tree selection for project’s target species (pedunculated oak, narrow-leaved ash, black poplar, black alder and field elm) in Croatia and helps project partners in Austria, Slovenia, Hungary...
