Data necessary for the determination of the proportion of various types of branching in stands under study, their variability within a tree, accuracy of classification of the type of branching, damage to particular types of branching due to breakage and initial age for their reliable recognition were obtained according to method from 1,336 trees situated in 11 trial plots in the region of the Beskids. Statistically significant differences were determined in the diameter and height increments for particular types of branching.

According to the geostatistical methods annual sums of precipitation, mean annual concentrations of SO2, total potential deposition of sulphur as inputs to the mountain forest ecosystem of Moravian-Silesian Beskids on the spatial level in 1996 were derived. For this purpose, all possible meteorological and monitoring stations in the surroundings of the cesearch teiritory were used.

Radiation regime is the important part of the energy flow through the stand structure. The goal of the radiation regime studies in the forest stand is to create and develop the technology for radiation measurements and to estimate the impacts of stand density on the radiation regime. The experiment is carried out the Experimental research site Bily Kriz in the Moravian - Silesian Beskydy Mts. with a Norway spruce monocultural stand. Intensities of photosynthetic active radiation, global radiation and intensities of incident and transmitted photosynthetic active radiations through the stand were measured.

Some 30 species of cambioxylophages with the dominant position of Pityophthorus pityographus, Polygraphus poligraphus, Pityogenes chalcographus, Molorchus minor and Obrium brunneum were recorded on subdominant trees attacked by Armillaria sp. and Heterobasidion annosum. The stress induced by fungal pathogens on subdominant trees causes unfavourable conditions for the development of Ips typographus and increases attractiveness for P. poligraphus and M. minor. Species of P. chalcographus and P. pityographus response indifferently.