Description of the Northern Tyrolean Limestone Alps with the Help of the Parameters from the Austrian Forest Inventory

1996

6 Lit. Ang.

Unselbständiges Werk

5943

200052148

Using data obtained from the Austrian Forest Inventory, the Northern Tyrolean Limestone Alps are judged with regard to the structure of their forests, stem damage, an regeneration. Due to the high share of protection forests found in this area, it is necessary to take into account special protection forest parameters to be able to assess potential risks. Since 1992, for instance, one has tried to use the data of the Austria Forest Inventory to describe wide-spread risk factors that affect the stability of protection forests. It turned out that insufficient regeneration, for instance due to the negative influence of browsing, represents a high risk in the (partly over-mature) protection forests of that area.