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Bird studies in urban parks support our better understanding to impacts of urbanization on natural forest habitats. This study is based on field census of nesting birds in urban parks of Olomouc heritage city (Czech Republic). Bird community in urban parks was compared with previous author?s bird study in hardwood floodplain forest near the Olomouc city. For characteristics of bird communities, Jaccard index, standard diversity index and equitability index were used. Comparison indicated high similarity of bird di...

This paper deals with a case study from Central European mountain Acidophilous spruce forests below the alpine tree line in the Hruby Jesenik Mountains (Czech Republic). These forest ecosystems are protected in the frame of the Natura 2000 European system. Maintaining of the defined forest habitat character, especially for certain types of forests historically affected by humans, is there the main target of forest management strategy. The results of this study suggest that research on forest management history can...