Projects funded by the NCN

The impact of tree co-invasion on the environmental transformations, biodiversity, and functioning of Scots pine forests

Call: PRELUDIUM 24 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: Sebastian Piotr Bury

Instytut Dendrologii PAN

From pests to polymers: transforming entomological waste from forest protection activities into chitosan

Call: PRELUDIUM 24 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: Eugeniusz Piotr Świstuń

Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie

Processes of ecological succession of consortia of fungi and bacteria involved in the decomposition of wood in a natural...

Call: OPUS 29 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Grzegorz Janusz

Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie

Assessment of structural and biodiversity changes in Białowieża Forest stands following natural ecosystem disturbances –...

Call: OPUS 29 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Maciej Lisiewicz

Instytut Badawczy Leśnictwa

Exploring how host characteristics and forest environments shape the microbiomes of saproxylic beetles

Call: PRELUDIUM 24 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: Rama Sarvani Krovi

Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN

The hidden benefits of decaying deadwood on soil health

Call: OPUS 29 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: prof. Ewa Błońska

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie

The relationships between biodiversity and carbon stock across disturbance and management gradient in temperate mountain...

Call: OPUS 28 (LAP) , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: prof. Michał Adam Ciach

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie

PIERISADAPT: The influences of local evolutionary history and ecology on diversification and adaptation to a changing en...

Call: OPUS 28 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Richard Ian Bailey

Uniwersytet Łódzki

Do wolves increase temperate forest tree diversity?

Call: OPUS 28 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Marcin Churski

Instytut Biologii Ssaków PAN

Application of innovative radar technology in the assessment of root system variability in the context of susceptibility...

Call: SONATA 20 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Luiza Anna Tymińska-Czabańska

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie

Identification and classification of High Conservation Value Forests (HCVFs) with remote sensing and geospatial data

Call: SONATA 20 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: dr Ewa Grabska-Szwagrzyk

Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Problems of Forest Nature Deficit in Polish and Austrian society-an attempt to create a psychometric questionnaire defin...

Call: OPUS 27 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Natalia Korcz

Instytut Badawczy Leśnictwa

Small scale responses of animals to spatial patterns of coarse woody debris and forest structure and their consequences ...

Call: PRELUDIUM 23 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: Veronica Facciolati

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie

The Assamblage of Violence. The Agency of Białowieża Forest in the UE migration policy crisis on the Polish-Belarusian b...

Call: OPUS 27 , Panel: HS3

Principal investigator: dr hab. Justyna Barbara Straczuk

Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Forests, society and democracy: Disputes over the future of forests in Poland in the context of climate change and the c...

Call: OPUS 27 , Panel: HS6

Principal investigator: dr hab. Krzysztof Niedziałkowski

Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Assessing forest cover changes in Poland for the last 60 years with CORONA imagery and contemporary global land cover pr...

Call: PRELUDIUM 23 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: Mahsa Shahbandeh Vayghan

Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Individual-level landscape genomics approach to genetic resource conservation of keystone forest tree species

Call: OPUS 27 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: prof. Jarosław Burczyk

Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego

Planetary Health by Healing Forests as Nature Based Solution

Call: BiodivNBS , Panel: NZ7

Principal investigator: dr Paweł Mateusz Sowa

Uniwersytet Medyczny w Białymstoku

Forest Germans (Głuchoniemcy, Walddeutsche, Taubdeutsche) in the Little Ice Age: mobility structures and natural environ...

Call: OPUS 27 , Panel: HS3

Principal investigator: prof. Marcin Wojciech Solarz

Uniwersytet Warszawski

How do wolves and humans shape beaver spatial behaviour and ecosystem impacts?

Call: SONATINA 8 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Tomasz Antony Diserens

Instytut Biologii Ssaków PAN

Forest trees at the crossroads: genomics of eco-evolutionary processes in two hornbeam species (Carpinus betulus i C. or...

Call: OPUS 26 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Piotr Janusz Kosiński

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu, Wydział Rolnictwa, Ogrodnictwa i Biotechnologii

New insights on the current dynamics of forest growth in changing climatic andenvironmental conditions using modern tech...

Call: OPUS 26 (LAP) , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Paweł Hawryło

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie, Wydział Leśny

Dendroremediation of arsenic: time-dependent dynamics of accumulation, transformation, and tolerance mechanisms of metal...

Call: SONATA 19 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Sylwia Karolina Budzyńska

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu, Wydział Leśny i Technologii Drewna

A behavioral comparison ofgenetically linked East African chimpanzees at thenorthern edge of their range

Call: OPUS 26 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Thurston Cleveland Hicks

Uniwersytet Warszawski

Study of interactions between pathogenic fungi and water balance components of forest ecosystems based on oak powdery mi...

Call: OPUS 26 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Anna Katarzyna Ilek

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu, Wydział Leśny i Technologii Drewna

The conditions of integrated protection of archaeological heritage in forest areas of Greater Poland. The foresters, arc...

Call: PRELUDIUM BIS 5 , Panel: HS3

Principal investigator: prof. Arkadiusz Marciniak

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Archeologii

Innovative spatial FORest PLANning for supporting resilient multifunctional forest management

Call: ForestValue2 Call 2023 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: dr Anna Katarzyna Wierzbicka

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu

Active and passive satellite remote sensing technologies in forest change dynamics monitoring

Call: PRELUDIUM 22 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: Wojciech Krawczyk

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie, Wydział Leśny

Will forests survive climate change? Identification of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) populations with drought-resista...

Call: PRELUDIUM 22 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: Joanna Kijowska-Oberc

Instytut Dendrologii PAN

Critical transition between resilience's and disturbances in the upper forest limits ecosystems during the last 2000 yea...

Call: OPUS 25 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: dr hab. Michał Mirosław Słowiński

Instytut Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania im. S. Leszczyckiego PAN

Spruce Forest Damage Assessment Using Machine Learning on Sentinel-2 Time Series in the Tatra Mountains

Call: PRELUDIUM 22 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: Marcin Kluczek

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych

Monitoring and mapping fungal diversity for nature conservation

Call: BiodivMon , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Julia Zofia Pawłowska

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Biologii

Movement analysis of forest-dwelling avian predators: a novel bioindication method for evaluating functional heterogenei...

Call: POLONEZ BIS 3 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Ülo Väli

Uniwersytet w Białymstoku

The forest, the trees, or both? Hierarchical perception of real-world scenes and objects

Call: SONATA BIS 12 , Panel: HS6

Principal investigator: dr hab. Michał Bola

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Centrum Badań Mózgu

Joint and individual effects of climate change and natural disturbances on forest vegetation in temperate mountain fores...

Call: PRELUDIUM 21 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: Kacper Roch Foremnik

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie, Wydział Leśny

Biological and environmental grounds for the rapid expansion of pine mistletoe (Viscum album ssp. austriacum) on Scots p...

Call: OPUS 23 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Piotr Mateusz Boroń

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie, Wydział Leśny

Bishops' Trees: The Environmental History of the White Forest

Call: OPUS 22 , Panel: HS3

Principal investigator: dr Tomasz Bartosz Związek

Instytut Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania im. S. Leszczyckiego PAN

Population genetics of saproxylic beetle assemblages in protected and managed forests

Call: OPUS 22 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Łukasz Marcin Kajtoch

Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN

Unlocking Bioactivity of Forest Plants Associated Mycobiome as Sources of Novel Carotenoids and other BioPigments: Inten...

Call: POLONEZ BIS 1 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr El-Sayed Ramadan El-Sayed Ali

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu

Study of relations between soil organic matter and dynamics of water infiltration and rainwater retention in forest soil...

Call: OPUS 22 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Anna Katarzyna Ilek

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu, Wydział Leśny i Technologii Drewna

Full title: Big data in monitoring of tourist traffic and valorization of cultural ecosystem services in forest areas wi...

Call: OPUS 22 (LAP) , Panel: HS4

Principal investigator: dr Mariusz Marcin Ciesielski

Instytut Badawczy Leśnictwa

The impact of topoclimatic variability and contemporary climate changes on forest ecosystems of the Western Sudetes

Call: OPUS 22 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: dr hab. Marek Błaś

Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wydział Nauk o Ziemi i Kształtowania Środowiska

Spatial interactions among trees and mechanisms shaping structural variability and species mingling patterns in temperat...

Call: SONATA 17 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Srdjan Keren

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie, Wydział Leśny

Exploring the role of resource dynamics in a global variation of forests reproduction

Call: POLONEZ BIS 1 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Valentin Journé

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Biologii

The effect of drought on microbial activity and decomposition of deadwood in various temperate forest species

Call: PRELUDIUM BIS 3 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: prof. Ewa Błońska

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie, Wydział Leśny

Soil formation processes and carbon accumulation in reclaimed forest soils containing pyrogenic and fossil carbon residu...

Call: SONATA BIS 11 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: dr hab. Agnieszka Maria Józefowska

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie, Wydział Rolniczo-Ekonomiczny

The multilevel impact of predation-induced stress in ungulates on the functioning of the temperate forest ecosystem

Call: MAESTRO 13 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: prof. Krzysztof Zdzisław Schmidt

Instytut Biologii Ssaków PAN

Assessment of the impact of weather conditions on forest health status andforest disturbances at regional and national s...

Call: OPUS 21 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: dr hab. Agata Hościło

Instytut Ochrony Środowiska - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy

Impact of European spruce bark beetle Ips typographus outbreak on the occurrence and use of spruce and mixed stands by a...

Call: OPUS 21 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Aleksander Rachwald

Instytut Badawczy Leśnictwa

Shrubs in shaping soil biodiversity in temperate pine forests

Call: OPUS 21 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Jarosław Lasota

Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie, Wydział Leśny