NDLI: Woody species composition of chestnut stands in the Northern Apennines: the result of 200 years of changes in land use

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Author	Pezzi, Giovanna Maresi, Giorgio Conedera, Marco Ferrari, Carlo
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Chestnut stands (orchards and coppices) are among the most typical elements of the southern European mountain landscape and a protected habitat (9260 Castanea sativa woods) according to the European Union (Directive 92/43/EEC). As an anthropogenic landscape, they require specific measures to address preservation or to guide their evolutionary trend. In the Northern Apennines, a landscape multiscalar-multitemporal approach was adopted to highlight factors that have acted on the evolution of this habitat and which still might affect either its preservation or its evolutionary dynamics. Using a diachronic GIS-approach, we analyzed old cadastral maps (drawn up 200 years ago), and aerial photographs. Both the present distribution pattern of the woody species and the incidence of important chestnut diseases were also surveyed. The factors explaining the current extent and species composition of the local chestnut forests confirm their status as an anthropogenic habitat. The present landscape distribution of chestnut woods is heavily linked to past human settlements. Chestnut blight and ink disease are more an indirect reason for past felling activities than an actual direct cause of damage to trees, because of the hypovirulence spread and the limited incidence of the ink disease. Vegetation dynamics of abandoned chestnut forests evolved only partly towards deciduous Beech and Hop Hornbeam stands, thus suggesting both the possibility of a recovery of this cultivation and the need for new criteria for its management.
Starting Page	1463
Ending Page	1476
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09212973
Journal	Landscape Ecology
Volume Number	26
Issue Number	10
e-ISSN	15729761
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-10-11
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Castanea sativa Cadastral maps Chestnut diseases Historical ecology Stratified random sampling Socio-economic transformation Forestry Ecology Landscape Ecology Plant Ecology Plant Sciences Forestry Management
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation

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