Who we are
The Chair of Forest Protection provides teaching in the fields of biotic and abiotic risk factors in forests. The foci in research lie on a close-to-nature control of biotic risk pest organisms and new hunting strategies for deer.
© Professur für Waldschutz
The Chair of Forest Protection
What we do
in teaching:
- forest protection basics and practical applications with regard to biotic risk factors (insect species, damage, antagonists)
- development, containment and prevention of anthropogenic and abiotic risk factors in forests such as wildfires, storms and snow
- biotic construction and timber pest organisms (timber protection)
in research:
- effects of forest conversion on organisms relevant in forest protection
- importance and exploitation of natural enemies of potential forest insect pests
- new hunting strategies for deer aiming at population sizes that are in accordance with the habitat conditions and up-to-date knowledge in wildlife ecology
- potential biotic and abiotic risk factors in short rotation coppices incl. the development of monitoring, prognosis and control methods
- importance and close-to-nature control of Arvicolidae and Muridae in forests
Our equipment:
- entomological laboratory and eclector unit
- Grillenburg deer enclosure, which allows for deer-related research such as testing new food recipes and repellents
- study sites in several regions of Germany such as the Phoenix area, in which the options for a close-to-nature control of key insect pests in pine forests by creating structural diversity are studied
- historical entomological collection
- comprehensive teaching collection incl. examples for feeding damage and galleries