Biodiversity and Sustained Forestry. (Text in German) Once, wood production has been the main focus of forestry. Nowadays, the preservation of biological variety, the protection and stability of the ecosystem forest is coming to the fore. This book contains the proceedings of the "Forum Genetik - Wald - Forstwirtschaft" (Genetics - Forest - Forestry) and provides a general and systematic survey of forest genetic engineering and forest plant cultivation. The main purpose of the book is to demonstrate how the forest practice can be improved by making use of the new findings of genetic forestry.