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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Apulian Territory and the Typical Local Farmhouses: A Case of Study Through Landscape Analysis
The Apulian territory is strongly characterized by a rural architectural heritage with many historical features. Rural and agro-industrial buildings, their reuse or degradation, are the testimony of a history ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modelling of the Thermal Effect of Green Façades on Building Surface Temperature in Mediterranean Climate
Urban Green Infrastructures (UGIs) improve the supply of urban ecosystem services. UGIs can provide benefits such as better urban climate conditions and lower temperature of urban air. They can also limit the ...
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Article
Sediment texture in rock avalanche deposits: insights from field and experimental observations
Sedimentary structures within rock avalanche deposits have gained increasing attention in recent years, since they may provide useful information about the dynamics of such energetic events. This work then is ...
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Solid Wood and Wood Based Composites: The Challenge of Sustainability Looking for a Short and Smart Supply Chain
The paper takes into account the most important wood based products used in architecture, structural engineering and design. The amount of roundwood, sawnwood and wood panel production is analysed and forest c...
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Open AccessEarthquake-reactivated landslide scenarios in Southern Italy based on spectral-matching input analysis
The Tyrrhenian portion of the Calabria region (southern Italy) is particularly prone to landslides as a consequence of intense morphodynamic processes. These processes affect the slopes that are composed of hi...
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The gravitational slope deformation of Mt. Rocchetta ridge (central Apennines, Italy): geological-evolutionary model and numerical analysis
This paper presents the results of a study on a deep-seated gravitational slope deformation affecting the eastern slope of the Mt. Rocchetta ridge (central Apennines, Italy). Fieldwork identified the ongoing d...
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Cadmium accumulation and tolerance in Populus nigra and Salix alba
Rooted cuttings of Populus nigra L. clone Poli and Salix alba L. clone SS5 were treated for three weeks with 50 μM CdSO4 in nutrient solution. The willow showed a far higher Cd tolerance, expressed as tolerance i...
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Evidences of landslide earthquake triggering due to self-excitation process
The basin-like setting of stiff bedrock combined with pre-existing landslide masses can contribute to seismic amplifications in a wide frequency range (0–10 Hz) and induce a self-excitation process responsible...
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Flash-flood hyperpycnal flows generating shallow-water landslides at Fiumara mouths in Western Messina Strait (Italy)
On October 1, 2009, a small area along the Sicilian coast between the villages of Scaletta Zanclea and Giampilieri was struck by intense and concentrated rainfall causing countless small landslides widespread ...
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Chapter
The Importance of Geological Models in Understanding and Predicting the Life Span of Rockslide Dams: The Case of Scanno Lake, Central Italy
In order to explain the long life span of the Scanno rockslide-avalanche dammed lake (Central Italy), whose age of impoundment is older than 2,300 years, and to get indications about its present and future sta...
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林业与农村发展: 全球宏观趋势及中意合作中的具体应用
有关生物多样性、可持续发展和气候变化的国际公约都肯定了森林的全球意义, 也认识到了环境变化给森林的稳定性和功能带来的风险。对天然林、人工林及次生林进行良好的管理, 将有助于减小全球变化带来的风险。人类**在不断地挑战环境: 毁林、土地退化、生物多样性丧失。对林业管理人员而言, 当务之急就是要提高人工林的生产力和可持续性, 从而达到保护天然林的目的。在欧洲及其它国家, 农场种林可提供稳定、高产的木质生物资源并为农民增加...
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Genetic linkage maps of Populus nigra L. including AFLPs, SSRs, SNPs, and sex trait
Black poplar (Populus nigra L.) is a tree of ecological and economic interest. A better knowledge of P. nigra genome is needed for an effective protection and use of its genetic resources. The main objective of t...
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Article
Evidence of Amplification Effects in Fault Zone Related to Rock Mass Jointing
Results of geological, geomechanical and seismometric investigations aiming at the analysis of the seismic response in a carbonate ridge of the Nera River valley (Central Apennines – Italy) are discussed. Geol...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
LANDSLIDES FROM MASSIVE ROCK SLOPE FAILURE AND ASSOCIATED PHENOMENA
Landslides from massive rock slope failure (MRSF) are a major geological hazard in many parts of the world. Hazard assessment is made difficult by a variety of complex initial failure processes and unpredictab...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ROCK AVALANCHE AND MOUNTAIN SLOPE DEFORMATION IN A CONVEX DIP-SLOPE: THE CASE OF THE MAIELLA MASSIF, CENTRAL ITALY
Maiella massif, in the easternmost sector of the central Apenninic chain. The massive rock slope failure involved about 30 x 106m3 volume of well-bedded Eocene and Miocene limestone and marly-limestone, which sli...
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Chapter
Responses to Elevated [CO2] of a Short Rotation, Multispecies Poplar Plantation: the POPFACE/EUROFACE Experiment
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Massive rock-slope failure in the Central Apennines (Italy): the case of the Campo di Giove rock avalanche
This paper describes the Quaternary Campo di Giove (CDG) rock avalanche which occurred along the western edge of the Maiella Massif in the central part of the Apennines, Italy. The aim of this work is to contr...
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Influence of man-made cuts on the stability of pyroclastic covers (Campania, southern Italy): a numerical modelling approach
Intense rainfall in May 1998 and December 1999 caused disastrous landslides in the Sarno-Quindici and Cervinara areas (Campania, southern Italy). The landslides began with slips of the local pyroclastic cover...
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Effects of Atmospheric CO2 on Growth and Branchiness of Different Poplar (Populus) Genotypes in the Popface Experiment
A FACE facility has been installed in a high density poplar plantation to investigate the effects of increasing atmospheric CO2 on three different Populus genotypes. First-year height growth was stimulated signif...
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Tree Biomass, Growth and Nutrient Pools
The role of forest ecosystems in the carbon cycle is a central problem of global ecology and has important, practical implications from the points of view of global change and production of woody raw material....