Forest management guidelines fort the catchment area of river Aist/Mühlviertel
Abstract
During the flood disaster in August 2002 the catchment area of the Aist faced severe damages. In line with an integrated preventative flood water management, forest management guidelines for slopes around ditches, waterside areas, retention basins, and forest stands will be elaborated for the catchment area. Its necessary to consider the effects of the forest vegetation, for example transpiration, interception, infiltration dynamics, storage capacity, bank slope protection, protection against land slide, log jam depend on stability of trees and forest stands as well as the position of the forest stand.
flood prevention forest management silviculture
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Eduard Hochbichler
Ao.Univ.Prof.i.R. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Eduard Hochbichler
eduard.hochbichler@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91314
BOKU Project Leader
01.06.2010 - 30.06.2011