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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-087-0-0419

VOLEC II – “THE FOREST ROAD NETWORK INFLUENCE ON RUNOFF FROM FORESTS IN CHANGING CLIMATIC CONDITIONS”

Petr Kupec1
1 Department of Landscape Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czechia


The VOLEC II project, supported by the NAZV agency of the Czech Ministry of Agriculture, is primarily focused on water management on forest roads, or rather on influencing the hydric regime of forests through the forest road network. It provides outputs that can be used not only for technical practice, but also for the practice of ecology and forest protection and their stabilization, and also for the area of the social functions of forests. In this area, it is possible to speak in particular about the specific microclimate in the vicinity of forest roads, which forest roads determine, among other things, by adjusting the visual regime in their surroundings. The purpose of the project and the submitted contribution is to propose technical measures to minimize the negative effects of forest roads on the runoff regime in forests in a technical sense, but secondarily to propose measures to improve the microclimate in the vicinity of forest roads and thus strengthen their explicit recreational function.

Keywords: humidity regime of forest roads surrounding, microclimate modification, water on forest roads, fecreational role of forest roads

pages: 419-422, Published: 2026, online: 2026



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