期刊全称 | Białowieża Primeval Forest: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century | 影响因子2023 | Tomasz Samojlik,Anastasia Fedotova,Ian D. Rotherha | 视频video | | 发行地址 | The first comprehensive English-language monograph of the history of one of the most famous ancient forests in Europe.Bialowieza is perhaps the best renown natural area of Europe, it was considered on | 学科分类 | Environmental History | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .Understanding the current state and dynamics of any forest is extremely difficult - if not impossible - without recognizing its history. Białowieża Primeval Forest (BPF), located on the border between Poland and Belarus, is one of the best preserved European lowland forests and a subject of myriads of works focusing on countless aspects of its biology, ecology, management. BPF was protected for centuries (15th-18th century) as a game reserve of Polish kings and Lithuanian grand dukes. Being, at that time, a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, BPF was subject to long-lasting traditional, multi-functional utilisation characteristic for this part of Europe, including haymaking on forest meadows, traditional bee-keeping and fishing in rivers flowing through forest. This traditional model of management came to an abrupt end due to political change in 1795, when Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania ceased to exist in effect of partitioning by neighbouring countries, and the territory ofBPF was taken over by the Russian Empire. The new Russian administration, influenced by the German trends in forestry, attempted at introducing the new, science-based forestry model in the BPF throughout | Pindex | Book 2020 |
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