DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-831-3-0302

Significant trees with great influence for landscape utilization in Pohansko district

Petr Martinek, Jiří Rozsypálek, Alena Klimešová

In Central Europe, trees are one of the basic units of the landscape structure and form an irreplaceable part of it. They also play a similar role in biodiversity maintenance. Biodiversity of an ecosystem is a very important property for both, the stability of the ecosystem and “the landscape utilization”. NAKI II project (2018–2022; FFWT MENDELU) is focused on the evaluation of woody plants' importance for organisms associated with woody plants biodiversity in the Pohansko district, e.g. wood fungi and saproxylic insects. This part of the Czech Republic has a crucial effect on the biodiversity of the whole central Europe region and can be very important for recreation and tourism. The negative finding of the project is the very bad health status and reduced perspective of the most biological value trees. There have not been created conservation management or arboriculture care with no stabilization or prospective improvement of trees on locality. This fact strongly threatens the further biodiversity stability of this ecosystem and also significantly reduces the possibilities of this locality used by the general public. The project can be considered as a base of arboriculture management creation on solved locality, which can also implicate further higher attractiveness of Pohansko for tourism and recreation, not only biodiversity maintaining.

Keywords: biodiversity, magnificent trees, South Moravia, ecological stability, saproxylic insects, NAKI II project, wood fungi, arboriculture management, recreation and tourism

pages: 302-305, Published: 2022, online: 2022