A5087088162- Urban Green Space and Health
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Growth and nutrition in plants
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Heavy metals in environment
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Plant and animal studies
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
- Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Waste Management and Environmental Impact
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
National Research Council
2013-2025
University of Palermo
2023-2025
Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth
2020-2024
Institute of Ecosystem Study
2012-2023
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2011
Abstract This study assessed the distribution and availability of plant uptake Zn, Pb, Cd present in an abandoned mine at Ingurtosu, Sardinia (Italy). Geological matrix samples (sediments, tailings, soil from a nearby pasture site) predominant species growing on sediments tailings were collected. Mean values total Pb respectively (mg kg−1) 7400, 1800, 56 31000, 2900, 100 sediments, 400, 200, 8 soil. The metal concentration high even mobile fractions evaluated by simplified sequential...
Urban biodiversity is essential for enhancing liveability both humans and wildlife by providing a range of ecosystem services. Therefore, it crucial to raise awareness among citizens, particularly schoolchildren, about the significance in urban environments. To this end, an Open-Air Laboratory was established park Italian Mediterranean city (Livorno), where natural vegetation flourishes. This initiative engaged schoolchildren experimental campaigns collect ecophysiological data on local wild...
According to projects and practices that the Italian botanists ecologists are carrying out for bringing "more nature in city", new insights a factual integration between ecological perspectives more consolidated aesthetic agronomic approaches sustainable planning management of urban green areas provided.
In anthropized sites, the establishment and management of sustainable nature-based wildflower meadow solutions exclude fertilization, weeding, watering, reduce frequency mowing. Once such inputs have been reduced, ecosystem services generated by vegetation result in an increase biodiversity terms plant animal species, improvement soil quality biota, mitigation air pollutants carbon sequestration, as well a reduction temperature. Environmental education citizen science are also some benefits...
Abstract Recycling of paper generates large quantities sludge that is rich in organic matter and can be exploited to counteract loss agricultural soils, especially some geographical areas, such as the Mediterranean. In order for deinking (DPS) recycled, chemical physical characterizations are required along with an analysis possible contaminants. DPS from Italy Tunisia, resulting various processes, were analyzed compared terms their properties (pH, OM, total N, C/N ratio, mineral nutrients,...
Bioavailability of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) from the Earth's crust in soil, e.g., As, Hg, Tl, and Pb, can pose a potential environmental health risk because human activities, especially related to mining extraction. The biomonitoring allows detect PTE contamination through their measurement living organisms as trees. However, choice which plant species tissue analyse is key point be evaluated relation absorption translocation. aim this work was assess Pb distribution Castanea sativa...
Hypersaline environments occur naturally worldwide in arid and semiarid regions or artificial areas where the discharge of highly saline wastewaters, such as produced water (PW) from oil gas industrial setups, has concentrated salt (NaCl). Halophytes can tolerate high NaCl concentrations by adopting ion extrusion inclusion mechanisms at cell, tissue, organ levels; however, there is still much that not clear response these plants to salinity completely unknown issues hypersaline conditions....
This study aimed to evaluate how seasonal variations in environmental conditions and atmospheric NO 2 impact C N cycle an urban environment by determining their elemental concentration isotopic composition (δ 13 C, δ 15 N) at spatial scale (urban peri-urban sites) species level (evergreen plants). Leaves soil across the medium-sized city of Pisa were collected over 1 year including COVID-19 lockdown, taking advantage unprecedented containment measures causing a substantial drop. The...