Vol. 62 No. 4 (2007):
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Aleppo pine in arboricolture for wood production in Mediterranean environment. The Mazzone Farm (Cosenza) case study

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  • Francesca Gentile,
  • Vittoria Mendicino,
  • Giuliano Menguzzato,
  • Luca Pelle
Francesca Gentile
Dottoranda in Ecologia Forestale, Università della Tuscia - Viterbo
Vittoria Mendicino
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie e Forestali, Università di Reggio Calabria.
Giuliano Menguzzato
Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi Agrari e Forestali, Università di Reggio Calabria.
Luca Pelle
Dottorando in Gestione Sostenibile dei Sistemi Agrari e Forestali in Ambiente Mediterraneo, Università di Reggio Calabria.

Published 2007-08-10

Keywords

  • afforestation,
  • arboriculture,
  • Aleppo pine,
  • biomass,
  • yield

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Abstract

Forest plantations can significantly contribute to the recovery of marginal agricultural lands and to the increase of biomass production, at the same time playing an important role in improving soil conditions and creating interruptions in agricultural landscapes. Forest species cultivation for wood production creates an agronomic type bio-ecological system, characterized by intensive cultivation algorithms and by the reversibility of the forest production cycle.
This paper analyzes a forest plantation for wood production in a Mediterranean type environment at the farm scale; the stand was planted in the ’80s in the Mazzone Farm located in the Alto Ionio Cosentino (Calabria). Results at the end of the first rotation are analyzed.
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