Forest health monitoring

Acquiring knowledge about the importance and implementation of the health monitoring system of forest ecosystems.

Full training of students to work on forest protection monitoring (ICP Forests). Monitoring of health status includes observation and data collection in the field, measurement and inventory; data analysis and state determination; forecasting future events and making appropriate decisions in this regard.

Theoretical teaching: Convention on Transboundary Transfer of Polluting Substances; Implementation of monitoring of the International Cooperative Program for Forests ICPF; Objectives of the ICPF monitoring system; ICPF methodology; Structure and content of monitoring for Level I; Collection and processing of data from bioindicator points for Level I; Structure and content of monitoring for Level II; Possible objectives regarding the development of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management; Collection and processing of data from stations for Level II; Study of cause-and-effect relationships of forest health status based on monitoring results; Evaluation of the impact of atmospheric deposition scenarios in the future on the (chemical) state of the ecosystem; Monitoring as an instrument of environmental policy; Reporting on the results of monitoring and presentation of information, use of GIS for monitoring the health status of forests.
Field teaching: Tour of characteristic bioindicative points in Serbia, recording of certain parameters and data processing; Tour of stations for intensive monitoring (Level II), data collection for certain parameters and data processing; Presentation of information.

1. Karadžić, D. (2010): Forest phytopathology. University textbook. Publisher University of Belgrade - Faculty of Forestry, University of Banja Luka - Faculty of Forestry. 1-774

2. ICP-Forests. Manuals, from 1998 to 2010.y. Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products /BFH).

3. Innes, J.L. (1990): Assesment of Tree Condition . HMSO London.pp.96

Oral exam, seminar papers, tests

Lectures, exercises and practical teaching in the field