WHAT IS THE POTENTIAL OF TULCEA COUNTY AS REGARDS THE NON-WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS?
Tulcea County has the largest diversity of relief forms, the greatest degree of biodiversity and the highest number of the protected areas from Romania. The purpose of the research was to determine the most important non-wood forest products (NWFPs) for Tulcea County. By taking into account the fo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Pitesti
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Current Trends in Natural Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://natsci.upit.ro/media/1639/paper-5.pdf |
| Summary: | Tulcea County has the largest diversity of relief forms, the greatest degree of biodiversity and the highest number of the
protected areas from Romania. The purpose of the research was to determine the most important non-wood forest
products (NWFPs) for Tulcea County. By taking into account the forest management plans of the eight forest districts
managed by Tulcea Forestry Directorate and other relevant data, a selection of the most ten important NWFPs was
done. Four categories of NWFPs proposed within the FP1203 COST Action European non-wood forest products
network were taken into account and twenty five criteria were used. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to
assess the performance of selected alternatives (the ten selected NWFPs) by means of pairwise comparisons. The
analyses were carried out using the Expert Choice Desktop software package. The most important NWFPs in Tulcea
County were the acorns of greyish oak, followed by the honey and nettle, while the less promising products were
represented by the penny bun and honey fungus. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-953X 2284-953X |