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Agroforestry farming system comprises considerable cultivated land area in the tropics. Despite the economic and social benefits of the system for farmers, it is also known to have an important role in the conservation of tree species. This study aims to evaluate the composition and distribution of tree species in coffee based agroforestry system to determine the potential for biodiversity conservation. To address the objective of this study, 57 sample plots in farmers’ coffee field and 12 sample plots in forest reserve were surveyed in Eastern Uganda. The result shows that the number of indigenous tree species in coffee farms was lower than that of forest reserve. Similarly, tree species richness per plot, Shannon and Simpson diversity indexes of forest reserve were significantly (p≤0.05) higher than that of coffee farms. However, with the inclusion of exotic tree species, coffee farms were found to be significantly higher than that of forest reserve for the above diversity indexes. On the other hand, the distribution of tree species in the coffee farms were mainly dominated by few tree species indicating the need for measures that ensure the sustainability of those less represented tree species.

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Department of Geosciences and Natural Resources Management

Department of Natural Resources Management

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<article-title>The Role of Coffee Based Agroforestry System in Tree Diversity Conservation in Eastern Uganda</article-title>

The Role of Coffee Based Agroforestry System in Tree Diversity Conservation in Eastern Uganda

The study assessed the patterns of spatio-temporal configuration imposed on a forest landscape in Southwestern Nigeria due to fragmentation for the period 1986 – 2010 in order to understand the relationship between landscape patterns and the ecological processes influencing the distribution of species in tropical forest environment. Time-series Landsat TM and ETM satellite images and forest inventory data were pre-processed and classified into four landuse/landcover categories using maximum likelihood classification algorithm. Fragstats software was used for the computation of seven landscape and six class level metrics to provide indicators of fragmentation and landscape connectivity from the classified images.

Institute of Ecology and Environmental Studies

<article-title>Geospatial Assessment of Forest Fragmentation and its Implications for Ecological Processes in Tropical Forests</article-title>

Geospatial Assessment of Forest Fragmentation and its Implications for Ecological Processes in Tropical Forests

The objective of this study was to investigate the duration of flowering and fruiting and the growth of riparian species in the natural forest along Phra Prong River, Watthana Nakhon District, Sa Kaeo province. The occurrence of flowering and fruiting was recorded every month from February 2015 to January 2016 (12 months) along a 7km distance of the riversides. Sixty six species belonging to 36 families were seen flowering and fruiting in this study. They were observed during February – April. The peak of flowering and fruiting occurred in March (early summer). <italic>Hydnocarpus anthelminthicus</italic>, <italic>Uvaria rufa</italic>, and <italic>Combretum latifolium</italic> had a long lasting flowering and fruiting period. <italic>Oxystelma esculentum, Capparis micracantha</italic>, <italic>Connarus cochinchinensis</italic>, <italic>Derris scandens</italic>, and <italic>Ficus racemosa</italic> produced flowers and fruits more than once a year. Those species may play an important role in availability of food resources for animals in the riparian forest. The appropriate time to collect seeds in Phra Prong riparian forest starts from February and lasts until August. The germination test indicated that <italic>Xanthophyllum lanceatum</italic> and <italic>Crateva magna</italic> had a high germination rate, about 70%. Growth of some riparian species, including <italic>Cinnamomum iners</italic>, <italic>Dipterocarpus alatus</italic>, <italic>Hydnocarpus anthelminthicus</italic> and <italic>Hopea odorata</italic> was monitored every three months from July 2015 to June 2016. Diameter growth of <italic>D. alatus</italic> was significantly higher during the wet season (Jul-Sep) than other seasons. In contrast, the rest of the species showed no significant differences among monitoring periods. Height growth rate of <italic>C. iners</italic> was significantly highest late in the dry period (Jan-Mar).

<article-title>Reproductive Phenology and Growth of Riparian Species along Phra Prong River, Sa Kaeo Province, Eastern Thailand</article-title>

Reproductive Phenology and Growth of Riparian Species along Phra Prong River, Sa Kaeo Province, Eastern Thailand

Ancient coppice woodlands are coppice-originated forest stands with a long-term continual development, and with the preserved typical natural and historic elements of old sprout forests. Prominent natural elements in the ancient coppice woodlands are namely old coppice stools. There is, in scientific literature, lack of information about features of ancient coppice stools. Therefore, our contribution aims to describe shape and form of ancient coppice stools, including the most important microhabitat of coppice woodlands – dendrothelms. Based on field survey of 20 localities of important coppice woodlands we recorded 135 ancient coppice stools of 13 tree species and a total of 80 dendrothelms in 9 tree species. Basic features of ancient coppice stools and dendrothlems were measured and evaluated.

Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology

<article-title>Tree shape and form in ancient coppice woodlands</article-title>

Tree shape and form in ancient coppice woodlands

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The studies focused on distribution and characteristic of small woodlands and trees as a typical feature of traditional agricultural landscapes (TAL) in Slovakia are missing or are rather local. The source data for this study was obtained from the national inventory of TAL performed in 2010-2012 in Slovakia, where woody vegetation was considered as one of the landscape elements creating mosaic of TAL. Based on the types of woodland present, which endow the landscape with a distinctive character and structure, we have divided TAL into five subtypes: 1) TAL with low occurrence of woodland – not more than 10 % of the site covered by woods, 2) TAL with spatial woodland formation, 3) TAL with solitaire trees dominant, 4) TAL with lines of trees or shrubs dominant, and 5) TAL with small woodland dominant.

Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

<article-title>Small Woodlands and Trees in Traditional Agricultural Landscapes of Slovakia</article-title>

Small Woodlands and Trees in Traditional Agricultural Landscapes of Slovakia

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The aim of the article is to assess the extensive database of memorial trees operated by AOPK CR (Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic) and to determine the occurrence and abundance of the most monumental trees in chosen biogeographical units, (altitudinal vegetation zone, altitude, ecological series (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_jlecol-2017-0019_ref_012_w2aab3b7b7b1b6b1ab1ac12Aa">Buček &amp; Lacina, 2002</xref>), province, subprovince, bioregion (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_jlecol-2017-0019_ref_019_w2aab3b7b7b1b6b1ab1ac19Aa">Culek <italic>et. al</italic>., 1996</xref>)) and the maximum size and age they can reach in these units.

Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Biogeocoenology

<article-title>Memorial Trees in The Czech Landscape</article-title>

{"article-title":"Memorial Trees in The Czech Landscape"}

An increasing number of people all around the world have become interested in remarkable and magnificent trees in recent years. Accessible databases of champion trees are available. Unfortunately, the Czech Republic does not have a single database of remarkable or champion trees. We have old tradition to find and describe an old and monumental trees in our country. In 1899 the first book was issued about it. Many of the biggest specimens are already registered in the Monumental Trees database, which is run by the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic, registered a total of 25,598 memorable trees in 2017. Not all remarkable or champion trees are designated as memorable. Due too we present the known data on champion trees in an independent checklist. There are shown 116 species of trees with their girth and other information as height, GPS coordinate etc. from various sources. This checklist is a basis for a future one national database. When comparing the champion trees of the Czech Republic with the databases of other European states, particularly that of Monumental Trees, it emerges that we are not far from coming first. The Czech champion tree, Vejda's Lime Tree in Pastviny (<italic>Tilia platyphyllos</italic> Scop.) measured 1,305 cm at girth in 2015. We would like to prepare one integrated Czech database of remarkable trees and champion trees by help of the Professor August Bayer Foundation as soon as possible.

<article-title>Checklist of Champion Trees in The Czech Republic</article-title>

Checklist of Champion Trees in The Czech Republic

{"article-title":"Checklist of Champion Trees in The Czech Republic"}

Industrial processes are marked with various deposits of wastes in landscapes. They are typically characterized by high pollution levels in all their ecosystem components, including soil, water and air. Even more than natural ecosystems, artificial ash and mine tailings containments or industrial dumps are disconnected from nature or agricultural surroundings by their construction geometry. This combination of factors directs such patches of landscape to the isolation (island) effect and hihglighting of land-surface fragmentation. What is the most proper tool serving efficiently for support of sharp boundaries dissolution and comeback of the habitat close to natural one? In the European climatic conditions, trees function as reliable ecosystem engineers under the conditions of keeping sites without human interventions. However, spontaneous colonization and succession include vegetational phases of both increased species diversity (advanced successional stages) and secondary species diversity reduction (successional retrogradation), usually in dependence on the soil-substrate development.

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science

<article-title>Trees as Ecosystem Engineers Driving Vegetational Restoration/Retrogradation of Industrial Deposits in Cultural Landscape</article-title>

Trees as Ecosystem Engineers Driving Vegetational Restoration/Retrogradation of Industrial Deposits in Cultural Landscape

Innovative programme of so-called functional planting of fruit trees in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia in order to increase the resilience of the territory to climate change.

MAS Strážnicko, programme coordinator, nám. Svobody 501,

KS MAS JMK, project manager, Kostelecké horky 25,

ZO ČSOP, fruiterer, Leverkův ostrov, Průkopnická 18 747 20 Vřesina

<article-title>A Million Fruit Trees for the Countryside</article-title>

A Million Fruit Trees for the Countryside

{"article-title":"A Million Fruit Trees for the Countryside"}

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Editor-in-Chief: Petr Maděra, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic Deputy editor: Zdeněk Lipský, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Executive Editors: Markéta Šantrůčková, The Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Průhonice, Czech Republic Ivo Machar, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic Editors: Pavel Kovář, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Almo Farina, University of Urbino, Italy Irina Goia, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania Rob H.G. Jongman, Wageningen, Netherlands Marc J. Metzger, University in Edinburgh, UK Dušan Romportl, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Alena Salašová, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic Jerzy Solon, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Richard Stiles, TU Vienna, Austria Jaroslav Vojta, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Thomas Wrbka, University of Vienna, Austria Agnieszka Latocha, University of Wrocław, Poland Robert Gerald Henry Bunce, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia Technical Editors: Jaromíra Dreslerová, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic Contact Petr Maděra Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology Mendelu University in Brno Zemědělská 3, Brno 613 00 Czech Republic E-mail: <A href="mailto:petrmad@mendelu.cz">petrmad@mendelu.cz</A> Publisher De Gruyter Poland Bogumiła Zuga 32A Str. 01-811 Warsaw, Poland T: +48 22 701 50 15

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