Draft of strategy, adaptation and mitigation measures from the viewpoint of climate change impact on Norway spruce tree in Slovakia

Draft of the strategy, adaptation and mitigation measures from the viewpoint of climate change impact on the forest ecosystems in Slovakia and concrete measures for time horizons 2007, 2045 and 2075 result as output from the research task "Impact of global climate change on the forests of Slovakia" that was performed at the National Forest Centre - Forest Research Institute Zvolen in the years 2003 - 2007. Norway spruce has been affected by climatic changes the most. With regard to large extent of newly obtained knowledge the area impacts of global climate change and resulting draft of measures for Norway spruce growing in respective altitudinal vegetation zones, were processed in tables in the paper. Prognosis of climate change impact on Norway spruce comes out from the synthesis of the results based on the analysis of the classes of conditions suitability that were determined for respective tree species on the basis of the frequency of current occurrence and growth responses of tree species in respective altitudinal vegetation zones as well as on the basis of the results of growth simulation by means of Sibyla growth simulator, analysis of the impact of climate change on production, ecological stability, vitality of tree species and the structure of stands with the use of models of climate change for the mentioned tree species.