Vol. 70 No. 4 (2015):
Special section

Recent trends in forest cover changes: only positive implications?

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  • Lorenzo Sallustio,
  • Annamaria Simpatico,
  • Michele Munafò,
  • Carmen Giancola,
  • Roberto Tognetti,
  • Matteo Vizzarri,
  • Marco Marchetti
Lorenzo Sallustio
Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Pesche (IS)
Annamaria Simpatico
Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Pesche (IS)
Michele Munafò
Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Via V. Brancati 48, I-00144 Rome, Italy. Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, I-00184 Rome, Italy.
Carmen Giancola
Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Pesche (IS)
Roberto Tognetti
Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Pesche (IS).The EFI Project Centre on Mountain Forests (MOUNTFOR), Edmund Mach Foundation, SanMichele all’Adige, Italy
Matteo Vizzarri
Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Pesche (IS)
Marco Marchetti
Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Pesche (IS)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4129/ifm.2015.4.03

Published 2015-12-21

Keywords

  • Land Use Change,
  • natural reforestation,
  • land abandonment,
  • carbon storage,
  • biodiversity,
  • Invasive Alien Species
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Abstract

During the last 50 years, the Italian landscape has been subjected by different land use and land cover changes (LULCC). The IUTI inventory (Inventario dell’Uso delle Terre d’Italia) is proved to be acheaper, fast and statistically accurate method for LULCC monitoring. The aim of this study is to summarize the LULCC trends at national level, in Italy, focusing on natural reforestation processes at macroregions level. Some of the LULCC effects on ecosystem services provisioning (carbon storage and sequestration,and biodiversity conservation) have been also analysed. Although on one side the forest re-growth represents a positive opportunity in terms of mitigation strategies due to the enhancement of potential carbon sinks,on the other side, the abandonment of agro-pastoral practices, has several potential negative impacts from an environmental, economic and social perspective.
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