Vol. 60 No. 4 (2005):
Special section

The contribution of protected areas to forest conservation in Italy

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  • Marco Marchetti,
  • Sebastiano Cullotta,
  • Piera Di Marzio
Marco Marchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente e il Territorio, Università del Molise – Via Mazzini, 8, 80165 Isernia
Sebastiano Cullotta
Dipartimento Colture Arboree, Università di Palermo – Viale delle Scienze 11, 90128Palermo.
Piera Di Marzio
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente e il Territorio, Università del Molise – Via Mazzini, 8, 80165 Isernia

Published 2005-08-31

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Abstract

The Italian system network of Protected Areas (PAs) dates back to the early1920s; afterwards, from the seventies, nature conservation became an importantpriority and many new PAs have been instituted. Nowadays, terrestrial PAs in Italycover about 2.9 million hectares, corresponding to about 10% of the Italian territory.Moreover, taking in consideration all the Italian complementary set of NATURA 2000sites (SCIs and SPAs), all the protected areas have increased considerably (21% of thecountry). Present work evidences the actual contribution of PAs in the conservation ofmain italian forest and preforest categories, giving also a geographic analysis ofdifferent protected forests at national level and thier evaluation by applying variousbiodiversity indicators.
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