At Technische Universität München extensive official, forestal, climatological, touristical geodata and metadata on the unique ecosystem Bavarian Forest National Park were gathered since 1996 to set up a GIS-platform used for research projects as well as for education. To improve data availability of this precious datapool the GIS-platform has been Web-enabled by migrating all its data content ...

European grapevine populations quickly disappeared from most of their range, massively killed by the spread of North American grapevine pests and diseases. Nowadays taxonomic pollution represents a new threat. A large Vitis complex involves escaped cultivars, rootstocks, and wild grapevines. The study aimed to provide insight into the Vitis complex in the Danube region through field and genetic...

A mechanistic, biogeochemical succession model, FIRE-BGC, was used to investigate the role of fire on long-term landscape dynamics in northern Rocky Mountain coniferous forests of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. FIRE-BGC is an individual-tree model-created by merging the gap-phase process-based model FIRESUM with the mechanistic ecosystem biogeochemical model FOREST-BGC-that has mixed spat...

Mobile Guiding System for Parks based on highly precision electronic map is of many researchers' concern, but commercial software cannot perform GPS positioning on custom-made maps for parks, and is not accurate enough to satisfy the requirements for drawing high precision electronic maps. This study uses trajectories measured by My Tracks software and a map edited in JOSM software to implement...

With 62 % of its total area covered in forest, Styria is the most densely forested province Austria. Accordingly, forests, more than any other habitat, characterise landscape Styrian Eisenwurzen Nature and Geopark. The forest areas nature park are managed by a combination private owners Provincial Forests, Austrian Federal Forests City Vienna. near-natural forests particular characterised speci...

Forest succession on degraded tropical lands often is slowed by impoverished seed banks and low rates of seed dispersal. Within degraded landscapes, remnant forests are potential seed sources that could enhance nearby forest succession. The spatial extent that forest can influence succession, however, remains largely unstudied. In abandoned agricultural lands in Kibale National Park, Uganda, re...

Cat Ba National Park is the core zone of Archipelago Biosphere Reserve. It contains quite diverse and unique ecosystems including 776 ha mangrove forest. Although bats park were included in many publications, none recorded from ecosystem. We recently conducted field surveys through wetland areas three horseshoe bat species: Marshall's (Rhinolophus marshalli), Pearson’s pearsonii), least (R. pus...