Forest botany

Forest botany is a branch of forest science and deals with the botanical aspects of the forest . Problems such as afforestation , deforestation or other subject areas of the forest ecosystem are answered here taking into account plant characteristics and not from economic approaches as in actual forestry .

Forest botanical institutes exist e.g. B. in Göttingen and in Tharandt (since 1929 affiliated to the Technical University of Dresden , before that independent as the Tharandt Forestry University ).

Well-known forest botanists

• Johann Georg von Langen (1699–1776)
• Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700–1782)
• Robert Hartig (1839–1901)
• Heinrich Mayr (1854-1911)
• Theodor Schmucker (1894–1970)
• Peter Schütt (1926-2010)

literature

• Helmut J. Braun, Erich Oberdorfer , D. Siebert: Textbook of forest botany . Fischer, Stuttgart and New York 1982, 256 pages, ISBN 3-437-20254-5
• Peter Schütt (Ed.), Gregor Aas et al .: Lexicon of Forest Botany. Morphology, pathology, ecology and systematics of important tree and shrub species . ecomed, Landsberg / Lech 1992, 581 pages, ISBN 3-609-65800-2