Deadwood is an important component for conserving carbon stock and maintaining species
diversity. Scarce information is, at present, available concerning the amount and …

The conservation of biological diversity is one of the main goals for managing forests in an
ecologically sustainable way. Presence and abundance of microhabitats, such as tree …

We investigated the relationship between time since death and morphological
characteristics of Abies alba Mill.(European silver fir) and Fagus sylvatica L.(European …

02 Lombardi:_ Page 1 FABIO LOMBARDI (*) () - GHERARDO CHIRICI (*) - MARCO
MARCHETTI (*) ROBERTO TOGNETTI (*) - BRUNO LASSERRE (*) - PIERMARIA CORONA (**) …

Pointer year analysis, simple correlations, and response functions were combined in a
dendroecological study to evaluate climate–growth relationships over the last century in two …

Gap-oriented forestry is a subject that is gaining interest worldwide as a compromise
between economic and operational requirements on the one hand and environmental and …

The conversion of pure conifer plantations into stands with heterogeneous structure and
composition is a current silvicultural challenge in Italy. A silvicultural system aiming to the …

Abstract Questions Pollen data for Abies alba Mill., a key European tree species, show
broad occurrence in the Italian peninsula in the early to mid‐Holocene diffusion (until ca …

An old-growth beech forest stand with silver fir within the strict forest reserve of Sasso Fratino
has been examined with the following aims: to characterize forest stand on the basis of …

Allozyme markers (11 loci, 32 alleles) have been used to estimate the genetic diversity
within the unique surviving population of the relic species Abies nebrodensis. Results were …