Vol. 65 No. 2 (2010):
Special section

Silviculture: forest protection

Andrea Battisti
Università di Padova
Luigi Masutti
Università di Padova
Elena Paoletti
IPP-CNR
Alessandro Ragazzi
Università degli Studi di Firenze

Published 2013-05-13

Keywords

  • insects,
  • fungi,
  • pollution,
  • climate change

Abstract

The multiple services provided by forests (conservation of: biodiversity, soil and water resources, mitigation of climate change, cleaning of air and water, timber production, landscape and recreation) are strongly dependent on forest health. In this paper we synthesize the main outcomes of the session on ‘Silviculture, Forest Protection’ held within the III Italian National Congress of Silviculture, Taormina, 16-19 October 2008