The thesis is focused on the issues of ecosystem services and functions of forests. The aim is to evaluate the students' awareness of the importance of ecosystem services and functions of forests and the subsequent comparison with the results of foreign studies. Literature research is devoted to the concept of ecosystem services and functions of forests, their description and classification. It also characterizes the concepts of forest, nature and landscape protection, the species composition and forest health. Own work involves methodological basis and characteristics of survey respondents. Subsequently evaluated questionnaire aimed at the students' awareness of the importance of ecosystem services and functions of forests. The results are divided into two parts corresponding to the partial aims of the thesis. Following the evaluation of the questionnaire is in the discussion an international comparison of the results with foreign studies. The conclusion summarizes the obtained knowledge and evaluates the fulfilment of objectives.

Problem situations in damage to forests as a result of construction activities is the total of its quantification, because of not only to damage to the forest and the land intended for the performance of the function of the forest, but also to damage to the water feature of the forest. The emergence of the crop damage and forest grounds occurs at the same time damage to the management. Broken water conditions on the forest grounds, inter alia, that the environmental damage (or one of its components), are also material injury for the owner of the forest, because it directly affect the amount of the additional costs linked to its management in the forest. The existing decree MZe ČR no. 55/1999 Coll. on the method of calculating the amount of loss or damage caused to forests assesses only the injury or damage to the forest and the land intended for the performance of the functions of the forest, but does the forest and its other non-production function as a forest ecosystem. The damage (the material injury) on the water feature of the forest is not the above mentioned decree dealt with. Initially formulated the problem lies in finding the right way of solving how to objectively quantify the financial damage to the forest, inc. damage to the water feature of the forest and thus closer to the actual damage to the exaktnosti forest, resulting in direct connection with the location and the realisation of the buildings.