NDLI: A proposal for assessing the success of soil bioengineering work by analysing vegetation: results of two case studies in the Italian Alps

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Author	Giupponi, Luca Bischetti, Gian Battista Giorgi, Annamaria
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	The evaluation of the success of soil bioengineering work is an issue still poorly addressed by the scientific community. Nevertheless, soil bioengineering techniques are increasingly used worldwide when mitigating the impact on the environment and the landscape is one, but not the only, goal of intervention. A tool to measure the success of soil bioengineering work, with reference to landslide stabilization, is presented in this paper: the index of ecological success (IES). The IES is based on the phytosociological analysis of vegetation and widens the potential applications of the ecological index of maturity (EIM), recently formulated by Giupponi et al. (Restor Ecol 23:635–644, 2015) to assess the degree of disturbance affecting a plant community. The IES compares the EIM values of the vegetation of an area affected by soil stabilization work with those of the expected vegetation at a precise time after completion of soil stabilization work, providing values ranging between 0 (maximum failure) and 1 (complete success). The IES was applied in two study areas located on two mountain slopes of the Southern Alps (Italy) which, as a result of landslides, were subject to soil bioengineering work aimed at slope stabilization. The results of these first two applications confirm the efficacy of the IES in evaluating the success of soil bioengineering work in mountain areas and bode well as to its future application.
Starting Page	305
Ending Page	318
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18601871
Journal	Landscape and Ecological Engineering
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	1860188X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Japan
Publisher Date	2017-04-26
Publisher Place	Tokyo
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Index of ecological success Landslide Phytosociology Plant community Southern Alps Landscape Ecology Nature Conservation Civil Engineering Environmental Management Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning Plant Ecology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Nature and Landscape Conservation

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