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Adaptation of forest landscape to environmental changes

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 127-127 (2009)
doi: https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor0509-002
Published: Jul 30, 2009 - Copyright © 2009 SISEF

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Collection/Special Issue: EFI 2008 Annual Conference Week - Orvieto (Italy)
Adaptation of Forest Landscape to Environmental Changes
Guest Editors: Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza (CRA - Rome, Italy)

The 2008 Scientific Seminar of the European Forest Institute was held in Orvieto (Italy) in September 18-20, with the aim of improving the knowledge and exchange of research results in the following fields: (1) relationship between ecological functions (productivity, biogeochemical cycles, genetic biodiversity) at the landscape scale; (2) landscape management tools for environmental amelioration and restoration as planting trees, forest and agroforestry, that are also relevant for the agro-environmental measures of the New Agricultural Policy of the EU and Forest Action Plan; (3) valuation of various forest-related functions, with special emphasis on forest tourism.

Ecological functions, Landascape management, Agroforestry, Forest tourism

   

Historically, man has profoundly modified the natural environment producing finely grained combinations of different types of rural land uses, varying from intensively cultivated fields to natural tree and shrubs communities, generally referred to with the term of landscape. The creation of a spatial heterogeneity made of a mosaic of forest patches, the presence of different stand age classes, the implementation of contact or transition zones among contrasting ecosystems, the formation of corridors made by linear belts of trees and hedges also utilized for timber and biomass production, are all conditions that favour environmental variability and, therefore, biological diversity. Many of these forest management aspects should be analysed and solved at the landscape level, and may have important consequences on different, but crucial, economic activities as, e.g., tourism. The need to combine in a landscape the production of timber and biomass with environmental and cultural services, parallels the necessity of making the landscape conservation objective an economically sustainable endeavour for forest owners and agro-forestry farmers.

Forest research contributes to this important task by developing an array of tools, ranging from landscape analysis and planning to providing the best plant material and cultivation systems for high quality and quantity ligno-cellulosic biomass production, to identifying the most appropriate socio-economic initiatives to make tree and forest management an economically and environmentally viable activity. This need is particularly evident in the Mediterranean basin where certain regions have only isolated forest patches where their management of wildlife and of biodiversity, and the adaptation of plants and animals to environmental changes are impaired. Therefore, the management needs to be integrated across the whole landscape rather than related to isolated landscape segments.

The 2008 Scientific Seminar of the European Forest Institute was held in Orvieto, Italy, in September 18-20, with the aim to improve the knowledge and exchange of research results in the following fields:

  • relationship between ecological functions (productivity, biogeochemical cycles, genetic biodiversity) at the landscape scale;
  • landscape management tools for environmental amelioration and restoration as planting trees, forest and agroforestry, that are also relevant for the agro-environmental measures of the New Agricultural Policy of the EU and Forest Action Plan;
  • valuation of various forest-related functions, with special emphasis on forest tourism.

The Seminar witnessed the participation of more than 200 scientists from Europe and outside, particularly form the Mediterranean region as it was co-organized by EFIMED, the EFI Regional Office fro the Mediterranean area and by the working group IUFRO 4.2.00 on forest inventory and and planning. The first group of papers presented at the Scientific Seminar are published in the ⇒ current volume of iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, after a full, peer-review open process.

Authors’ Affiliation

(1)
G Scarascia-Mugnozza
Consiglio per la Ricerca e Sperimentazione in Agricoltura (C.R.A.), Dipartimento Agronomia, Foreste e Territorio, v. Nazionale 82, I-00184 Roma (Italy)
(2)
G Scarascia-Mugnozza
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente Forestale e delle sue Risorse (Di.S.A.F.Ri.), University of Tuscia, v. S. Camillo de’ Lellis snc, I-01100 Viterbo (Italy)

Corresponding author

 
G Scarascia-Mugnozza
giuseppe.scarascia@entecra.it

Citation

Scarascia-Mugnozza G (2009). Adaptation of forest landscape to environmental changes. iForest 2: 127-127. - doi: 10.3832/ifor0509-002

Paper history

Received: Jul 24, 2009
Accepted: Jul 28, 2009

First online: Jul 30, 2009
Publication Date: Jul 30, 2009
Publication Time: 0.07 months

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