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INNOVATIVE SILVICULTURAL TREATMENTS TO ENHANCE SOIL BIODIVERSITY IN ARTIFICIAL BLACK PINE STANDS (SelPiBioLife)

Start date: Jun 2, 2014, End date: May 31, 2019,

Background The decay of forest cover and soil erosion is a consequence of continual intensive forest exploitation, such as grazing and wildfires over the centuries. From the end of the eighteenth century up to the mid-1900s, black pine plantations were established throughout the Apennines’ range in Italy, to improve forest soil quality. The main aim of ...
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Restoration of beech and silver fir forests in the Toscan Marches Appennines (RESILFOR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Background In the Italian Apennines (Mediterranean area), climate change is causing particularly extreme, sudden and intense phenomena, suggesting a likely alteration in precipitation rates in the future, with atmospheric humidity reductions and a decrease in annual and summer rainfall. This could cause selective pressure – leading to genetic erosion in ...
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