The Židlochovice Forest Enterprise is one of the directly managed forest enterprises of the Forests of the Czech Republic, State Enterprise. It covers 167, 000 hectares in the southern part of the South Morava Region. However, its forest coverage is only 15 per cent. Within the landscape which is subject to intensive farming forests have remained only in several complexes on soils which were not suitable for agricultural use. These include forests on airborne sands between the towns of Břeclav and Valtice, whose species composition includes Scots Pine, European Black Pine, Turkey Oak (Quercus ceris) and Robinia. In the hilly country around Diváky, Mikulov and Moravský Krumlov we can find mostly broad-leaved coppice forests with predominant English Oak and Sessile Oak with admixed Hornbeam and Linden. From the economic point of view as well as area-wise, the most important type of forests is represented by the floodplain forests preserved in the southern part of the Dyje-Svratka ravine … more