What is it about?
Examining the long-term dynamics of forest landscapes in Italy, over the last century, comparing a recent remote-sensing based map (2012) and an accurate historical map (1936)
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Why is it important?
Ecologists and landscape researchers are pointing out that a full understanding of ecosystems and landscapes should be based on the analysis of their functioning over long time series.
Perspectives
Results show that forest landscape structure has significantly changed across Italy, resulting in a general trend of decreasing fragmentation and patchiness, mainly through enlargement of existing forest patches, which have also assumed a more geometrically regular shape. In relative terms, the greatest expansion of forest areas has occurred mainly in lowland districts characterized by the highest level of human pressure in the country.
Piermaria Corona
CREA Research Centre for Forestry and Wood
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This page is a summary of: Quantitative changes of forest landscapes over the last century across Italy, Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, November 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2017.1407374.
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