This dataset considers information from 3,243 ICP-Forests Level I plots collected between 2006 an... more This dataset considers information from 3,243 ICP-Forests Level I plots collected between 2006 and 2008 in 19 European Countries: France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Austria, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Latvia, Cyprus. The dataset provides standardized estimates of deadwood volume distinguished in five different deadwood components: standing and lying dead trees, snags, coarse woody debris, and stumps. The data allowed a traditional set of forest parameters to be extracted and that may be used to build relationship with other forest attributes, both quantitative and qualitative, to strength the knowledge of forest structure, diversity and species interactions naturally occurring in European forests. To the best of our knowledge it is the first dataset reporting measurements on deadwood at such large spatial scale in forest stands in Europe.
... Bussotti1, Giandiego Campetella3, Roberto Canullo3, Andrea Costantini2, Gianfranco Fabbio4,Ro... more ... Bussotti1, Giandiego Campetella3, Roberto Canullo3, Andrea Costantini2, Gianfranco Fabbio4,Rosario Mosello5 Accepted ... I residui del modello multivariato, calcolati rispetto ai valori annuali misurati, sono ... a number of attributes (number of vascular species, LAI, soil properties ...
ABSTRACT Biodiversity is a central issue in forest ecosystem management and its maintenance is a ... more ABSTRACT Biodiversity is a central issue in forest ecosystem management and its maintenance is a serious concern both at national and global level. This paper summarizes the investigations related to biodiversity currently carried out at the intensive monitoring plots of the CONECOFOR programme. Forest structure, species diversity (vascular plants, epiphytic lichens, invertebrates), deadwood, naturalness and landscape indices are currently being investigated in (part of) the plots. The core of the available dataset is represented by the data about forest structure (available since 1996) and vascular plant diversity (available in a standardized comparable format since 1999). The paper will present the whole report structure
Effective restoration should start from an understanding of the spontaneous processes of vegetati... more Effective restoration should start from an understanding of the spontaneous processes of vegetation succession and utilize the natural “self-repair ” mechanisms. The number of possible restoration treatments (for example, manipulating the level of soil nutrients, propagule sources or disturbance regime) is limited. However, the relatively constant treatments should interact with a great variability of ecosystem states and landscape contexts, making restoration practice a very challenging and hard task. This context dependence of local vegetation dynamics is emphasized by the non-equilibrium ecological paradigm. This paradigm views the developing plant community as a complex dissipative system, which involve a methodology with explicit representation of spatiotemporal patterns. Restoration practice needs simple methods that easy to implement in the routine. However, there is a conflict between the simplicity required by the application and the complexity offered by advanced theory. W...
Extreme weather events, land use, and the presence of invasive species can act as pressures threa... more Extreme weather events, land use, and the presence of invasive species can act as pressures threatening biodiversity, resilience and ecosystem services. Particularly in the open cultural landscape, these pressures can suddenly drive ecosystems across tipping points and beyond thresholds of system integrity. Yet, biodiversity holds features for buffering against change. Potential stabilizing mechanisms include species richness, presence of key species such as legumes, and intraspecific diversity. These potential buffers can be promoted by conservation management and political decisions. On this basis, the results of the SIGNAL project and the related scientific based knowledge, will help to develop recommendations that could be used by International, national and local authorities, EU institutions, NGOs, for agriculture, landscape management and biodiversity conservation. Here we briefly describe the project and the Italian field experimental site.
A map of the dynamical tendencies in the vegetation illustrates the dominance of fundamental ecol... more A map of the dynamical tendencies in the vegetation illustrates the dominance of fundamental ecological processes (fluctuation, primary and secondary succession, regeneration, degeneration, regression) by picturing them as cartographic units. Informations for this map are drawn horn pbytocoenotic characteristics (floristic composition, vertical structure, texture, regeneration strategy, etc.) and historical documents. This study presents a map of the Mainarde complex (central Apennines, Italy), a branched chain formed by ancient glaciers with several peaks over 2,000 m a. s. 1. Human impact in the study area is decreasing, and the vegetation is undergoing different dynamical processes over large areas. Ten cartographic units were adopted: 1) Recreative secondary succession; 2) Primary creative succession; 3) Primary replicativa succession; 4) Regies sion; 5) Degeneration under continual disturbance; 6) Degeneration under drastic, periodic disturbance; 7) Regeneration after continual...
This dataset considers information from 3,243 ICP-Forests Level I plots collected between 2006 an... more This dataset considers information from 3,243 ICP-Forests Level I plots collected between 2006 and 2008 in 19 European Countries: France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Austria, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Latvia, Cyprus. The dataset provides standardized estimates of deadwood volume distinguished in five different deadwood components: standing and lying dead trees, snags, coarse woody debris, and stumps. The data allowed a traditional set of forest parameters to be extracted and that may be used to build relationship with other forest attributes, both quantitative and qualitative, to strength the knowledge of forest structure, diversity and species interactions naturally occurring in European forests. To the best of our knowledge it is the first dataset reporting measurements on deadwood at such large spatial scale in forest stands in Europe.
... Bussotti1, Giandiego Campetella3, Roberto Canullo3, Andrea Costantini2, Gianfranco Fabbio4,Ro... more ... Bussotti1, Giandiego Campetella3, Roberto Canullo3, Andrea Costantini2, Gianfranco Fabbio4,Rosario Mosello5 Accepted ... I residui del modello multivariato, calcolati rispetto ai valori annuali misurati, sono ... a number of attributes (number of vascular species, LAI, soil properties ...
ABSTRACT Biodiversity is a central issue in forest ecosystem management and its maintenance is a ... more ABSTRACT Biodiversity is a central issue in forest ecosystem management and its maintenance is a serious concern both at national and global level. This paper summarizes the investigations related to biodiversity currently carried out at the intensive monitoring plots of the CONECOFOR programme. Forest structure, species diversity (vascular plants, epiphytic lichens, invertebrates), deadwood, naturalness and landscape indices are currently being investigated in (part of) the plots. The core of the available dataset is represented by the data about forest structure (available since 1996) and vascular plant diversity (available in a standardized comparable format since 1999). The paper will present the whole report structure
Effective restoration should start from an understanding of the spontaneous processes of vegetati... more Effective restoration should start from an understanding of the spontaneous processes of vegetation succession and utilize the natural “self-repair ” mechanisms. The number of possible restoration treatments (for example, manipulating the level of soil nutrients, propagule sources or disturbance regime) is limited. However, the relatively constant treatments should interact with a great variability of ecosystem states and landscape contexts, making restoration practice a very challenging and hard task. This context dependence of local vegetation dynamics is emphasized by the non-equilibrium ecological paradigm. This paradigm views the developing plant community as a complex dissipative system, which involve a methodology with explicit representation of spatiotemporal patterns. Restoration practice needs simple methods that easy to implement in the routine. However, there is a conflict between the simplicity required by the application and the complexity offered by advanced theory. W...
Extreme weather events, land use, and the presence of invasive species can act as pressures threa... more Extreme weather events, land use, and the presence of invasive species can act as pressures threatening biodiversity, resilience and ecosystem services. Particularly in the open cultural landscape, these pressures can suddenly drive ecosystems across tipping points and beyond thresholds of system integrity. Yet, biodiversity holds features for buffering against change. Potential stabilizing mechanisms include species richness, presence of key species such as legumes, and intraspecific diversity. These potential buffers can be promoted by conservation management and political decisions. On this basis, the results of the SIGNAL project and the related scientific based knowledge, will help to develop recommendations that could be used by International, national and local authorities, EU institutions, NGOs, for agriculture, landscape management and biodiversity conservation. Here we briefly describe the project and the Italian field experimental site.
A map of the dynamical tendencies in the vegetation illustrates the dominance of fundamental ecol... more A map of the dynamical tendencies in the vegetation illustrates the dominance of fundamental ecological processes (fluctuation, primary and secondary succession, regeneration, degeneration, regression) by picturing them as cartographic units. Informations for this map are drawn horn pbytocoenotic characteristics (floristic composition, vertical structure, texture, regeneration strategy, etc.) and historical documents. This study presents a map of the Mainarde complex (central Apennines, Italy), a branched chain formed by ancient glaciers with several peaks over 2,000 m a. s. 1. Human impact in the study area is decreasing, and the vegetation is undergoing different dynamical processes over large areas. Ten cartographic units were adopted: 1) Recreative secondary succession; 2) Primary creative succession; 3) Primary replicativa succession; 4) Regies sion; 5) Degeneration under continual disturbance; 6) Degeneration under drastic, periodic disturbance; 7) Regeneration after continual...
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