A5037878273- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Management and Policy
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Hemiptera Insect Studies
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
University of Trento
2016-2025
Fondazione Edmund Mach
2019-2024
Centro Agricoltura Ambiente (Italy)
2021
Forests cover about 40 % of the European Union (EU), providing a wide spectrum invaluable ecosystem services to more than half billion people. In order protect and harness this crucial asset, EU policies are advancing multifunctional management. This study lays basis for such an effort by mapping supply key forest (FES) across entire EU: wood, water supply, erosion control, pollination, habitat protection, soil formation, climate regulation recreation. To further support operationalization...
Abstract Bushmeat hunting is a pantropical threat to rainforest mammals. Understanding its effects on species richness, community composition and population abundance of critical conservation relevance. As data the pre-hunting state mammal populations in Africa are not generally available, we evaluated impacts illegal bushmeat two ecologically similar forests Udzungwa Mountains Tanzania. The differ only their protection status: one National Park other Forest Reserve. We deployed systematic...
There has been a strong quest for mapping and assessing ecosystem services (ES) to support governance. Yet, the institutional landscape that governs ES provision across multiple contexts received less attention. We fill this research gap by developing operationalising framework analysis of policy documents address European forest provision. By coding analysing references as well innovations governance mechanisms addressing these in national strategies on forest, biodiversity bioeconomy, we...
Humans profoundly affect animal distributions by directly competing for space, not only transforming, but actively using their habitat. Anthropogenic disturbance is usually measured via structural proxies such as infrastructure and land use that overlook the impact of human presence, or functional disturbance. In this study, we propose a methodology unifying two paradigms, mobility movement, to fill gap. We developed novel spatially-explicit index anthropic disturbance, Cumulative Outdoor...
PyGRASS is an object-oriented Python Application Programming Interface (API) for Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Information (GIS), a powerful open source GIS widely used in academia, commercial settings and governmental agencies. We present the architecture of library, covering interfaces to GRASS modules, vector raster data, with focus on new capabilities that it provides users developers. Our design concept module interface allows direct linking inputs outputs modules...
This paper presents the results of a forest cover analysis over time span 150 years in protected area Eastern Trentino (Northern Italy), Paneveggio Pale di S. Martino Nature Park. With aid Grass GIS two historical maps (1859 and 1936) set aerial photographs taken from 1945 to 2006 have been analysed, orthorectified classified with supervised method, order derive series maps. Techniques applied problems encountered using heterogeneous material are discussed. The research shows that 1859...
The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), is an invasive pest that has expanded its range outside of original confinements in Eastern Asia, spreading through the United States, Canada and most European Eurasian countries. invasiveness this agricultural public nuisance facilitated by availability array suitable hosts, r-selected life history release from natural enemies invaded zones. Traditional monitoring methods are usually impeded lack time...
This paper presents an open-source spatial analysis model (Biomasfor) that can quantify the availability of forest wood-energy biomass in light ecological and economic sustainability. Several multi-functionality parameters were evaluated to highlight potential impact extraction on different functions. The multistep approach used model's internal structure permit use with highly differentiated input datasets. introduction demand evaluation allows quantification supply/demand. is focused...
The recovery of the 1936 Italian Kingdom Forest Map (IKFM) (276 sheets 1:100,000) is described. It a unique document that describes forest extent and species composition for whole Italy. original available in paper format using datum map projection no longer use, therefore it not suitable analysis current digital tools. Therefore, this has been firstly converted to image, georeferenced reprojected as raster official datum; secondly, digitalized vector format. This provides historical,...
Historical maps constitute an essential information for investigating the ecological and landscape features of a region over time. The integration heritage in GIS models requires their digitalization classification. This paper presents semi-automatic procedure successive filtering undesirable such as text, symbols boundary lines. step is carried out using Object-based Image Analysis (OBIA) GRASS R, combining image segmentation machine-learning performed by two modules developed during this...
Alpine cultural landscapes are the result of a long process social-ecological coevolution, and today face dramatic changes risks, such as depopulation abandonment traditional land use. Some communities seem to adapt better benefiting from changes, compared others, which losing their population identity. Historic collective property institutions ecological knowledge play key role. The direction local development appears be driven by interaction three main forces: culture, multiple-level...
Accurate density estimations of threatened animal populations is essential for management and conservation. This particularly critical species living in patchy altered landscapes, as the case most tropical forest primates. In this study, we used a hierarchical modelling approach that incorporates effect environmental covariates on both detection (i.e. observation) state abundance) processes distance sampling. We applied method to already published data three arboreal primates Udzungwa...
In the Alpine environment, Man has always been directly dependent on mountain ecosystems. Social mechanisms have created specific models of governance, capable assuring persistence ecosystems and their capacity to provide essential goods services. recent decades, however, dramatic changes occurred, such as climate change in land use. The complexity common all linked human-natural environment systems is extremely marked areas this makes it difficult understand how resilient these may be. Many...