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TURKISH JOURNAL OF BOTANY, 2016

Atti del Secondo Congresso Internazionale di Selvicoltura = Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Silviculture, 2015

Les essais chêne-liège FAIR 202 offre à la communauté scientifique un matériel vivant UNIQUE déno... more Les essais chêne-liège FAIR 202 offre à la communauté scientifique un matériel vivant UNIQUE dénominateur commun pour basé recherche TRANSNATIONAL, MULTI/ INTERDISCIPLINAIR et AVANCÉ sur des sujets comme la sélection, amélioration génétique, adaptation aux changements globaux (usage de l’eau, eficace photosyntetique, variabilité dans retention de CO2, etc), consanguinité et diversité génetique, susceptibilité aux insects et maladies, mechanisms de formation et qualité du liège et la respective GENOMIQUE -.http://www.rencontre-medsuber.com/dmediafiles/biblio/2011oral19.pdf

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B. Schirone, F. Vessella and M.C. Varela. 2019. EUFORGEN Technical Guidelines for genetic conserv... more B. Schirone, F. Vessella and M.C. Varela. 2019. EUFORGEN Technical Guidelines for genetic conservation and use for Holm oak (Quercus ilex). European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN), European Forest Institute. 6 pages. <strong>ISBN 13</strong>: 978-952-5980-62-2 <strong>Abstract:</strong> These Technical Guidelines are intended to assist those who cherish the valuable holm oak genepool and its inheritance, through conserving valuable seed sources or use in practical forestry. The focus is on conserving the genetic diversity of the species at the European scale. The recommendations provided in this module should be regarded as a commonly agreed basis to be complemented and further developed in local, national or regional conditions. The Guidelines are based on the available knowledge of the species and on widely accepted methods for the conservation of forest genetic resources

Forests, 2022

The Mediterranean Basin is frequently stricken by huge disasters, and it represents an important ... more The Mediterranean Basin is frequently stricken by huge disasters, and it represents an important biodiversity hotspot. Designing a synthetic approach, which is user-friendly with a low cost, that aims to summarize the main climatic factors that determine vegetation geographical ranges is a strategic solution to plan forest restoration actions and quickly act in cases of urgency. Here, we propose an updated version of the Emberger Index, applied to Quercus suber, an emblematic species of many ecosystems in the Mediterranean. Our investigation couples the latest spatially continuous climatic data, a high-resolution distribution map, and modelling techniques. The results evidence the effective benefits of the updated process, with insights into the optimal climatic requirements of a species within its real spatial domain, including projections for the next decades and the detection of putative refugia. Those outputs were not possible before because of a lack of data covering a certain ...

A key factor to reduce soil erosion and soil instability is the conservation of forest areas. In ... more A key factor to reduce soil erosion and soil instability is the conservation of forest areas. In the last years, in all Europe, forest logging has increased. The Italian situation is paradigmatic because more than 70% of the broadleaved forests are managed as coppices and new exploitations concerning biomass for energy production have tripled since 2001. The common coppicing method leaves standards uniformly distributed on the ground, but this geometry has proven to not play an effective role in soil erosion control. In this paper, we propose a different method for coppicing geometry, aimed to decrease the soil erosion risk. In particular, the theoretical framework of the model is presented here, employing the USLE framework and discussing a real case study, while the results of the experimental tests, which are in progress, will be discussed in future papers. The theoretical results seem to demonstrate the method’s validity, which is expected to reduce soil erosion amount in the ra...

Sumarski List, 2018

The “green oak” is a well-known specific individual oak tree of unknown origin growing near Zadar... more The “green oak” is a well-known specific individual oak tree of unknown origin growing near Zadar in Croatia. Depending on the authors, it was described either as a hybrid taxon between Quercus cerris L. and Q. ilex L. (named Q. × viridis Trinajstic) or alternatively as a presumed hybrid between Q. cerris and Q. suber L. To finally resolve the origin of this taxon, we performed molecular analyses and investigated the phylogenetic relationships between the “green oak” and other closely related oak taxa from the surrounding area, including all putative parental species. A total of 16 individuals representing nine Quercus L. taxa were investigated based on both plastid (trnK-matK and trnH-psbA) and nuclear (5.8S + ITS2) DNA sequence variation. Placement of the green oak in the phylogenetic relationships between the studied oak taxa does not support Q. ilex as one of its parental species but rather indicates that this taxon is in fact Q. crenata Lam., reaffirming previous alternative hy...

Forests, 2021

Habitat loss and fragmentation are considered some the main threats to biodiversity. Original for... more Habitat loss and fragmentation are considered some the main threats to biodiversity. Original forests have suffered an accentuated fragmentation and agricultural homogenization, leaving only some areas of natural vegetation, relegated to strongly anthropized disconnected patches (island forests, IFs) in a hostile matrix. These patches of original vegetation could be the key for the design and management of ecological corridors to promote species migration, an essential strategy for meeting the consequences of Global Change. This study proposes a comparative analysis of the fragmentation and connectivity of IFs of Quercus in two typically Mediterranean areas of predominantly agricultural use: the Guadalquivir valley (Spain) and the Apulia region (Italy). A retrospective comparison is also carried out in the Guadalquivir valley. The aim is to develop an objective new methodology to locate the patches of most interest using quantitative and qualitative data. Reference cartography of cu...

International Journal of Green Technology, 2020

Regional Environmental Change, 2019