https://italiaforestalemontana.it/index.php/ifm <p class="has-normal-font-size"><em>L’Italia Forestale e Montana / Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments </em>is a peer-reviewed scientific Journal published by the Italian Academy of Forest Science dealing with all aspects of forest and environmental sciences, policy, economics, law, with a special focus on Mediterranean and mountain environments. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, including connections with history, sociology and geography. </p> <p class="has-normal-font-size">The Journal was founded in 1946, and since 2006 is fully available open access on-line. The Journal publishes accepted articles online 6 times a year. A paper version of the Journal is sent to subscribers.</p> <p>ISSN: 2036-3494 (online) | 0021-2776 (print)</p> Firenze University Press en-US L'Italia forestale e montana 0021-2776 <p>The Journal is published online according to the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</a>). Under this license the Italian Academy of Forest Science retains the ownership of the copyright for the published contents, but allows anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited. In any case, the material published on the Journal website cannot be used for commercial purposes.</p> https://italiaforestalemontana.it/index.php/ifm/article/view/1132 Susanna Nocentini Copyright (c) 2024 Susanna Nocentini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-04-24 2024-04-24 79 1 3 5 10.36253/ifm-1132 https://italiaforestalemontana.it/index.php/ifm/article/view/1123 <p>This review, following a brief summary on the importance and meaning of old-growth forests, presents an analysis of management practices that have led to the structural simplification of forests along the Southern Apennines. Based on the results of studies found in the literature, the structural characteristics of beech and Calabrian pine forests managed using traditional methods is compared with forests of the same physiognomic types but exhibiting old-growth characteristics. From these studies, it emerges that in both cases, the structural typology is stratified into small groups. The age difference between the groups in old-growth forests is determined by the time interval between the death of old trees, while in forests managed using the “small-group selection felling”, it depends on the interval between interventions. The review highlights: a) how the structural dynamics induced by the traditional silvicultural approach resembles that which occurs in the absence of anthropic intervention; b) to what extent traditional forms of forest use effectively reproduce natural dynamics; c) the importance of studying old-growth forest to derive indications for sustainable silvicultural treatments.</p> Francesco Iovino Copyright (c) 2024 Francesco Iovino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-04-24 2024-04-24 79 1 7 23 10.36253/ifm-1123 https://italiaforestalemontana.it/index.php/ifm/article/view/1133 <p>.</p> Francesco Iovino Copyright (c) 2024 Francesco Iovino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-04-24 2024-04-24 79 1 33 38 10.36253/ifm-1133 https://italiaforestalemontana.it/index.php/ifm/article/view/1131 Gianpiero Andreatta Copyright (c) 2024 Gianpiero Andreatta https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-04-24 2024-04-24 79 1 25 32 10.36253/ifm-1131