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Integrated forest management to prevent wildfires under mediterranean environments
Corona
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P.
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Ascoli
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Davide
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Barbati
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Anna
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Bovio
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Giovanni
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Colangelo
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Giuseppe
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Elia
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Mario
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Garfì
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Vittorio
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Iovino
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Francesco
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Lafortezza
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Raffaele
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Leone
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Vittorio
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Lovreglio
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Raffella
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Marchetti
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Marco
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Marchi
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Enrico
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Menguzzato
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Giuliano
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Nocentini
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Susanna
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Picchio
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Rodolfo
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Portoghesi
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Luigi
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Puletti
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Nicola
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Sanesi
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Giovanni
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Chianucci
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Francesco
Mostra abstract
This review presents a multidisciplinary framework for integrating the ecological, regulatory, procedural and technical aspects of forest management for fires prevention under Mediterranean environments. The aims are to: i) provide a foreground of wildfire scenario; ii) illustrate the theoretical background of forest fuel management; iii) describe the available fuel management techniques and mechanical operations for fire prevention in forest and wildland-urban interfaces, with exemplification of case-studies; iv) allocate fire prevention activities under the hierarchy of forest planning. The review is conceived as an outline commentary discussion targeted to professionals, technicians and government personnel involved in forestry and environmental management.
Structural attributes of stand overstory and light under the canopy
Mostra abstract
This paper reviews the literature relating to the relationship between light availability in the understory and the main qualitative and quantitative attributes of stand overstory usually considered in forest management and planning (species composition, density, tree sizes, etc.) as well as their changes as consequences of harvesting. The paper is divided in two sections: the first one reviews studies which investigated the influence of species composition on understory light conditions; the second part examines research on the relationships among stand parameters determined from mensurational field data and the radiation on understory layer. The objective was to highlight which are the most significant stand traits and management features to build more practical models for predicting light regimes in any forest stand and, in more general terms, to support forest managers in planning and designing silvicultural treatments that retain structure in different way in order to meet different objectives.