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The Development of Soil Science in Abruzzo
The authors illustrate the development of the soil science surveys in the Abruzzo region over the last three decades. The first part of the chapter...
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Archaic Food Uses of Large Graminoids in Agro Peligno Wetlands (Abruzzo, Central Italy) Compared With the European Ethnobotanical and Archaeological Literature
Large graminoid species, which often dominate wetland ecosystems with extensive and dense formations, are among the most indicative plants from the...
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SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in Italy through phylogenomic inferences based on Hamming distances derived from pan-SNPs, -MNPs and -InDels
BackgroundFaced with the ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease, the ‘National Reference Centre for Whole Genome Sequencing of microbial...
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The Development of Soil Science in Basilicata
This chapter deals with the development of soil science studies in Basilicata. After an overview of the role played by the initiators of soil studies...
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Changes of Italian Forests Over Time Captured by the National Forest Inventories
In order to effectively compare the results of different surveys, they should share the study domain, and the definitions and the classification and...
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Evaluating the presence of larvae of Lobesia botrana (Denis & Schiffermüller) develo** on olive trees in some central-southern Italian regions
The present study was conducted in four central-southern Italian regions (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Puglia) in the years 2008 and 2016–2018, with...
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Systematics, Taxonomy, and Sustainable Management of Some Critical Vascular Plant Groups in Central Apennines, Italy
Plants are essential to understanding ecosystems and the impacts of human development. The deciduous montane forests of the central Apennines (Italy,...
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The sharka disease on stone fruits in Italy: a review, with a focus on Tuscany
Sharka, caused by plum pox virus (PPV), is by far the most harmful disease of stone fruits (genus Prunus ). Although Italy is a major producer of...
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Area and Characteristics of Italian Forests
Awareness of exhaustible forest resources is not recent in human history; rather, it dates back to the late Middle Ages, when it became clear that...
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Forest Carbon Stock
Forests affect climate globally and have an important role in the global carbon cycle. Countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention...
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Biodiversity and Protected Wooded Lands
The importance of forests for their functions other than timber and wood production has dramatically increased in the last decades with the increased...
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Forest Management and Productive Function
Forestry originated as a science under the need to manage forests for timber production in a sustainable way. Since then, sustainability has been...
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Protective Function and Primary Designated Management Objective
In a framework of multiple services supplied simultaneously by forests, the protection against natural hazards is one of the most important. Forests...
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The Development of Soil Science in Marche
This chapter deals with the development of soil science studies in the Marche region. After an overview of the role played by the government...
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The Development of Soil Science in Tuscany
Concerning agronomical and forestry studies, Tuscany has an ancient tradition. Especially since the eighteenth century, and all along the century...
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Sourdough Microbiota Diversity in Southern Europe
Sourdough relies on a complex microbial ecosystem mainly characterized by the leavening action of acid-tolerant yeasts and lactic acid bacteria...
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Cats and clouds: how a citizen camera-trap** project boosts wildcat (Felis silvestris) conservation
The European wildcat is an elusive small carnivore species whose distribution, behavioural ecology and interactions with domestic cats are scantly...
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Forest Health
Forests mainly consist of long-lived trees or shrub species and are exposed to natural or human disturbances of different severities. They are...
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Climate change may cause the extinction of the butterfly Lasiommata petropolitana in the Apennines
AbstractClimate change represents a threat to narrow-ranged mountain species living in low-altitude massifs. We studied the disjunct Apennine...
