Janusz Szmyt
Dr. Szmyt is an adjunct of Silviculture at Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland. He earned his MSc from August Cieszkowski Agicultural University in Poznań, focusing on the natural self-thinning and self-pruning of trees between 20-25 year of living in unmanaged Scots pine stands established at different initial spacing. His PhD thesis focused on the spatial structure of unmanaged single species stands of different valuable forest tree species (Scots pine, Norway spruces, pedunculated oak and sessile oak) established at different initial density and spacing during their juvenile stage of development. His research activities are focused on: forest dynamics; inter- and intra-specific competition and cooperation of trees within the forests; tending regimes in managed stands of different forest tree species; natural processes in managed pine, oak and spruce stands in the dependence on the initial density; methods of stand regeneration; afforestation of agricultural lands after their agriculture use; forest conservation; spatial statistics in forestry.