Vegetation, soil, DNA and natural evolution by Zanella A

“…Dialogue with Sandro Pignatti on natural evolution, considering the soil as a living matrix in which the recycling of organic matter and DNA takes place. How vegetation interacts with the soil and how it is not the species that evolve but the ecosystem that contains them. …”
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Surfactant damages on coastal vegetation in southern Italy

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Preliminary investigations on the variation of humus forms using two different vegetation-related approaches in mountain sites of Lombardy (Italy) by Chersich S, Ivetic B, D’Alessio D

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Proposal of a simplified method for the assessment of carrying capacity of woods in territorial forest planning

“…This work suggests a simplified methodology of vegetation sampling to be used inside forest planning to evaluate the carrying capacity of woods. …”
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A project of environmental improvement for Red deer on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, Central Italy by Nicoloso S, Vagaggini L, Ciuti F, Brugnoli A

“…Here, the once pastured zones are affected by the invasion and progressive colonization of arbustive and herbaceous vegetation. Areas which are currently covered by shrubs and/or other pioneer vegetation forms have been located by means of GPS technology. …”
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Structural characteristics of young plantations with pedunculate oak and hornbeam in the Veneto region by Bellio R, Pividori M

“…Foresters manage them as an open museum, adopting particular forestry technique to preserve and maintain the overstorey vegetation, even through new plantations near the ancient woods. …”
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Basic knowledge for forest restoration: the Pomieri forest case study (Madonie regional park, Sicily) by Bagnato S, Merlino A, Mercurio R, Solano F, Scarfò F, Spampinato G

“…To assess the functionality of the stand some biological indicators were taken into consideration: dendrometric-structural, floristic-vegetation, ecological, fructification, natural regeneration, disturbances. …”
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Dynamics of natural regeneration in <i>Pinus laricio</i> stands from southern Apennines (Italy) by Albanesi E, Mercurio R, Gugliotta OI

“…After three growing seasons first results put in evidence: a) no significant differences of water soil content were observed between gap sizes; b) transmittance was higher in large and medium gaps than in small ones and in the centre and northern sides in both gap sizes; c) calabrian pine seedling density was higher in large gaps than in medium and small ones and namely in the centre positions; silver fir seedlings appear after the second growing season in small and medium gaps; d) seedling mortality of calabrian pine was relevant in small and medium gaps in the edge and silver fir seedling mortality in the centre of the large ones; e) in these first years the ground vegetation (bramble and bracken) represents a moderate detrimental effect on seedlings establishment that could be removed by partial cuttings.…”
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Venezia Città-Donna nel Fuoco by Giacon, Maria Rosa

“…Indeed a deep link between the woman and the city is traced: Foscarina, whom d’Annunzio often describes as frightened by the flight of Time, is metaphorically associated with the melancholy of lonely places like Calle Gambara as well as with the strong vitality of Venetian garden vegetation. Thanks to this ambivalence, Foscarina emerges as a more complete character than the hero Stelio Èffrena who is connected only to positive values. …”
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Application of a niche-based model for forest cover classification by Amici V, Marcantonio M, Geri F

“…In particular, image classification and predictive distribution modeling applied to forest habitats, constitute a crucial issue as forests constitute the most widespread vegetation type and play a key role for ecosystem functioning. …”
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Soil, humipedon and forest management by Zampedri R, Zanella A, Giannini R

“…Due to an erroneous and non-biological conception of soil, and consequent difficulty in linking the physical aspect to the biological functioning of this complex ecosystem, the official soil classification of the last 30 years has abandoned the original link with climate, vegetation and the ecology of the environment in which soil evolves and coexists. …”
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Variation of soil carbon stocks during the renaturation of old fields: the case study of the Pantelleria Island, Italy by La Mantia T, Oddo G, Ruhl J, Furnari G, Scalenghe R

“…It seems that different types of vegetation play a key-role in soil C dynamics and there are 85 t C ha^-1 in the top 40 cm of the soil after 30 years from the abandonment in the chronosequence and an annual C sequestration rate equal to 3.4 t ha^-1. …”
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La casa, il bosco, il giardino by Gibellini, Cecilia

“… Gabriele d’Annunzio made his debut as a playwright with Sogno d’un mattino di primavera, a symbolist work based on the figure of the protagonist, Isabella, who had gone mad after holding in her arms all night long her lover killed by her husband: now she feels like a vegetable creature, and she would like to blend in with the flowers in the garden and the plants in the woods. …”
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Direct and indirect effects of chemical treatment against poplar rust attacks by Giorcelli A, Gennaro M, Deandrea G, Chiarabaglio PM

“…Their effectiveness was previously assessed only partially and without evaluations of plant behaviour in the following vegetative season. Three IBS systemic triazoles (tebuconazole, cyproconazole and epoxyconazole), the translaminar cytotropic mandipropamid and a mixture of cyproconazole and azoxystrobin (methoxyacrilate similar to strobilurines) were tested on one-year plantlets of the susceptible clone ’ÂÂNeva’ (Populus ×canadensis). …”
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‘Il topo, le piante, i vermi. Giacomo Leopardi, ed Erasmus e Charles Darwin’ by Angioy, A

“…I read the plant’s resistance to Nature’s harshness as an equivalent to the resilience of worms, the ‘heroes’ of Charles Darwin’s last masterpiece The Formation of Vegetable Mould, published in 1881. Nature in all three writers is shown to be far from idyllic, but all three equally stress how our awareness of what imperils the human condition – as Phillips puts it “we are all relaxing in the killing fields” – can lead to solidarity and resistance.…”