KAZALCI OKOLJA

Key message
Neutral

Most Slovenian forests are still undergoing natural regeneration, which guarantees the stability of future forest stands and adaptation to the changing site conditions caused by climate change. Restoration by planting seedlings and sowing (artificial regeneration) only complements natural regeneration when disturbances occur in the process of the natural regeneration of the forest, e.g. where there is no possibility of natural seeding, with the risk of developing erosion processes on exposed forest areas (e.g. forest stands affected by natural disasters) or when we want to change the existing inadequate tree (species) composition of the forest.

The trend as regards the "annual change of stands in regeneration" was neutral in the period 2010–2016, went down in 2016, and then increased steeply and reached the peak in 2018 and than declined. The share of artificial regeneration in the period 2010–2019 represents about 10% of all restoration, and the area of forests requiring artificial regeneration is slowly increasing.


Charts

Figure PO33-1: Forest regeneration in the period 2010–2019
Sources:

Slovenia Forest Service, Slovenian Forestry Institute

Show data
Natural regeneration Artificial regeneration Total regeneration Annual change of stands in regeneration
2010 1272.90 412.95 1685.85 3368.69
2011 1290.80 376.80 1667.60 3410.93
2012 988.90 277.60 1266.50 3691.09
2013 874.14 255.24 1129.38 3828.08
2014 490.66 251.88 742.54 3400.92
2015 599.92 260.39 860.31 3630.13
2016 637.36 332.80 970.16 2392.20
2017 598.61 346.12 944.73 5392.83
2018 871.65 477.69 1349.34 7962.29
2019 796.12 586.08 1382.20 5782.36

Methodology

The indicator methodology is available only in Slovene (link to the indicator)

Date of data source summarization