Fabio Lombardi
A5034151420- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Forest Management and Policy
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Diverse academic and cultural studies
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Healthcare Facilities Design and Sustainability
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Bioenergy crop production and management
University of Reggio Calabria
2015-2024
Mediterranean University
2016-2022
University of Tartu
2022
University of Central Oklahoma
2021
Oklahoma Biological Survey
2021
University of Oklahoma
2021
Oklahoma State University
2021
Regione Lombardia
2019
Lombardia Informatica (Italy)
2019
Universidad Internacional De La Rioja
2016
In recent decades, Mediterranean landscapes have been affected by human-induced drivers, such as land use and climate change. Forest ecosystems particularly in mountainous regions due to limited management stewardship, especially remote areas. Therefore, there is a need set up new strategies enhance ecosystem services forested areas which, turn, will benefit local communities economies. this study, we implemented approach—Multiscale Mapping of Ecosystem Services (MIMOSE)—to assess forests...
Abstract Tree mortality is a key factor influencing forest functions and dynamics, but our understanding of the mechanisms leading to associated changes in tree growth rates are still limited. We compiled new pan‐continental tree‐ring width database from sites where both dead living trees were sampled (2970 4224 190 sites, including 36 species), compared early recent between that died those survived given event. observed decrease radial before death ca. 84% events. The extent duration these...
Abstract Aim Primary forests have high conservation value but are rare in Europe due to historic land use. Yet many primary forest patches remain unmapped, and it is unclear what extent they effectively protected. Our aim was (1) compile the most comprehensive European‐scale map of currently known forests, (2) analyse spatial determinants characterizing their location (3) locate areas where so far unmapped likely occur. Location Europe. Methods We aggregated data from a literature review,...
Mixing of complementary tree species may increase stand productivity, mitigate the effects drought and other risks, pave way to forest production systems which be more resource-use efficient stable in face climate change. However, systematic empirical studies on mixing are still missing for many commercially important widespread combinations. Here we studied growth Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) European beech (Fagus sylvatica mixed versus pure stands 32 triplets located along a...
Summary There is increasing evidence that species diversity enhances the temporal stability (TS) of community productivity in different ecosystems, although its effect at population and tree levels seems to be negative or neutral. Asynchrony responses environmental conditions was found one main drivers this stabilizing process. However, mixing on productivity, relative importance associated mechanisms, remain poorly understood forest communities. We investigated way influenced TS Pinus...
Tree mortality is a key driver of forest dynamics and its occurrence projected to increase in the future due climate change. Despite recent advances our understanding physiological mechanisms leading death, we still lack robust indicators risk that could be applied at individual tree scale. Here, build on previous contribution exploring differences growth level between trees died survived given event assess whether changes temporal autocorrelation, variance, synchrony time-series annual...
Significance Forest trees can live for hundreds to thousands of years, and they play a critical role in mitigating global warming by fixing approximately 15% anthropogenic CO 2 emissions annually wood formation. However, the environmental factors triggering formation onset springtime cellular mechanisms underlying this remain poorly understood, since forms beneath bark is difficult monitor. We report that Northern Hemisphere conifers driven primarily photoperiod mean annual temperature....
Abstract Aims Primary forests are critical for forest biodiversity and provide key ecosystem services. In Europe, these particularly scarce it is unclear whether they sufficiently protected. Here we aim to: (a) understand extant primary representative of the range naturally occurring types, (b) identify types which host enough under strict protection to meet conservation targets (c) highlight areas where restoration needed feasible. Location Europe. Methods We combined a unique geodatabase...
Abstract Primary forests, defined here as forests where the signs of human impacts, if any, are strongly blurred due to decades without forest management, scarce in Europe and continue disappear. Despite these losses, we know little about occur. Here, present a comprehensive geodatabase map Europe’s known primary forests. Our harmonizes 48 different, mostly field-based datasets contains 18,411 individual patches (41.1 Mha) spread across 33 countries. When available, provide information on...
Abstract The increasing disturbances in monocultures around the world are testimony to their instability under global change. Many studies have claimed that temporal stability of productivity increases with species richness, although ecological fundamentals mainly been investigated through diversity experiments. To adequately manage forest ecosystems, it is necessary a comprehensive understanding effect mixing on and way which influenced by climate conditions across large geographical areas....
Abstract The aim of this paper is to investigate differences in plant species composition between managed and unmanaged forests, assess if these difference give rise a higher diversity the forest. Furthermore our relate forest structure composition, identifying structural attributes more strongly related vegetation. We compared an old-growth highforest Abruzzo Lazio Molise National Park (Central Italy). Plant diversity, deadwood components live have been analyzed. used permutational...
ABSTRACT THE Universal Soil-Loss Equation is widely used to satisfactorily estimate average annual soil loss from rainfall. Without modification, it somewhat unsatis-factory for estimating individual storms. Several erosivity factors that could be storms were investigated in this study. Rainfall like EI30 include both rainfall rate and amount terms found much better predictors of than a factor including alone. Lumped in-clude amount, intensity, runoff even EI30, whereas with separate best....
Changes in intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) were investigated Fagus sylvatica and Nothofagus spp. over the last century. We combined dendrochronological methods with dual-isotope analysis to investigate whether atmospheric changes enhanced iWUE of tree growth (basal area increment, BAI) along latitudinal gradients Italy Chile. Post-maturation phases trees presented different patterns δ13C, Δ13C, δ18O, Ci (internal CO2 concentration), iWUE, BAI. A continuous enhancement isotope-derived...
Phenological synchronisms between apical and lateral meristems could clarify some aspects related to the physiological relationships among different organs of trees. This study correlated phenological phases bud development xylem differentiation during spring 2010–14 in balsam fir (Abies balsamea Mill.) black spruce [(Picea mariana Mill. (BSP)] Monts-Valin National Park (Quebec, Canada) by testing hypothesis that occurs after reactivation growth. From May September, we conducted weekly...
Since adequate information on the distribution of biodiversity is hardly achievable, indicators are necessary to support management ecosystems. These surrogates assume that either some habitat features, or patterns observed in a well-known taxon, can be used as proxy diversity one more target taxa. Nevertheless, at least for certain taxa, validity this assumption has not yet been sufficiently demonstrated. We investigated effectiveness both habitat- and taxa-based surrogate six European...
The relationships between structural complexity, deadwood abundance, microhabitat type and species-diversity indicators are excellent tools to monitor biodiversity in forest ecosystems. In spite of their importance, correlations traits Coleoptera communities Mediterranean mountain forests have only rarely been investigated. Consequently, the magnitude direction remain poorly understood. this study, we analyzed whether indices saproxylic non-saproxylic beetle could be influenced by stand...
Despite growing interest in predicting plant phenological shifts, advanced spring phenology by global climate change remains debated. Evidence documenting either small or large advancement of to rising temperature over the spatio-temporal scales implies a potential existence thermal threshold responses forests warming. We collected unique data set xylem cell-wall-thickening onset dates 20 coniferous species covering broad mean annual (MAT) gradient (-3.05 22.9°C) across Northern Hemisphere...
Abstract The maintenance of certain levels old forest represents a cornerstone the EU's biodiversity management strategy. A consensus on single general ecological definition old‐growth is particularly difficult in Mediterranean Europe. present paper deals with forests and persistent woodlands Cilento Vallo di Diano National Park (PNCVD) to give an understanding complexity dynamics under multiscale multidisciplinary perspective. approach ranged from identification mapping potential stands at...