Bascietto

Monitoring forests and their services in natural and

urban context: parallelisms and differences

Marco Bascietto , CNR-IBAF, Italy Bruno De Cinti, CNR-IBAF, Italy

Giorgio Matteucci, CNR-ISAFOM, Italy

LIFE+ EMoNFUr final conference 17 June 2014, Milano Italy

Outline

• Build up and run a monitoring net (European and Italian experience): importance and weak points (our experience in ConEcoFor)

• Reshape the italian monitoring network: the Life+ project SMART4Action

• LIFE project ManFor C.BD and EMonFUr: forests in extra urban and urban context

• How forests does influence C and BD (the importance of dead wood)?

• UF management importing knowhow from natural forests: our experience


6000 sample points (Level I ●)

Monitoring in Europe (ICP-Forests)

Level II, ~ 800 plots

265 Level I stands (16x16 Km) 31 Level II PMPs

High number of forest types monitored (11)

Intensive monitoring system

7 natural parks

24 mountain (900÷1900m a.s.l.)

Monitoring of forest in Italy ConEcoFor

• Aim: status and trends of parameters

• Common, clear, shared protocols (science into practice)

• Lot of plots, statistical design (sometimes)

• Continuity (but: need of national support)

• Database

• Data for modelling/validation and use of models

• Combined data evaluation: powerful but relatively “slow”


Monitoring in Europe (ICP-Forests)

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More in detail: • Insert in the net, sites easy to reach in all seasons (better if served

by electricity) • Optimize the number of variable to monitor • Adopt cheap methodologies easy to automatize • Better if data and sample collecting is performable from non

professionals

How to assure from the sites a (as more as possible) continuous series of data in the long period?

Minimizing their costs of management (materials and personnel)


Other issues to consider

An attempt to re-organize Italian monitoring is being performed by the C.F.S. and the ConEcoFor Consortium


Select sites by a meticulous design in order to assure the representativeness of data: • Select sites suitably placed

• Monitor a species or a variable in a sufficient number of sites and in comparable environments (replications)


LIFE09 ENV/IT/000078

With the support of: Corpo Forestale dello Stato, Slovenian Forest Service, Abruzzo Region

ManFor C.BD. Managing forests for multiple purposes: carbon,

biodiversity and socio-economic wellbeing 01/10/2010 – 30/09/2015

€ 5’030’000 (50% cofunded by LIFE+)


Monitoring the effect of the forest on variables as: • Biodiversity • Carbon stock and sequestration • Soil conservation • Uman Wellbeing

Monitoring the effect of the environment on the forest


● Updated knowledge about the effectiveness of new forest management practices in meeting multiple objectives in target European ecosystems/forest types

● Data and policy relevant information about the impact of forest management on carbon cycling and biodiversity.

● Datasets about the Pan-European indicators related to carbon cycle/sequestration and biodiversity and set up of additional indicators consistent with the International Conventions and European Action Plans

● Evaluation of management effects at forest patch and landscape scales, taking into account ecological connectivity, ecosystem fragmentation and the interactions with the man-made component.

What we expect to achieve 1/2


● Definition of a set of “good practices” ● Assessment of the impact of forest management options on selected vertebrate and invertebrate taxa and the possible limiting and favouring factors. ● Increased awareness on multifunctional forest management at the public and societal level, including dissemination to scholars and students at University level. ● Establishment of test areas where it will be possible to follow long-term trends of forest biodiversity and carbon cycling in response to forest managements.

What we expect to achieve 2/2


Primarily for biodiversity, but also for carbon stock and sequestration, in the ManForC.BD. context , the importance of dead wood presence in forest has become an increasingly important issue

Problems in urbans context (but also in natural forests)

Logs Snags Ilots de Viellissement pollard trees etc

Biodiversity


The importance of dissemination

Recupero del parco arborato di una villa storica

Necessità di creare un soprassuolo: • stabile • Fruibile dal pubblico in massima sicurezza • In armonia con le componenti architettoniche • Il più possibile naturale (stabilità, bellezza nel tempo con interventi e costi ridotti).

Operazioni necessarie: • redazione di un inventario (dettagliata conoscenza del parco) • messa in sicurezza degli individui arborei mediante

• potature • ancoraggi • abbattimenti

• individuazione ed eliminazione di tutti gli elementi di disturbo che nel tempo si sono venuti a creare (interferenze pianta pianta, pianta manufatti, ecc.)

• favorire le piante autoctone (meno esigenti e più resistenti) e fra le alloctone quelle più adeguate ad affrontare i cambiamenti climatici.

• assicurare un futuro al parco mediante programmazione di un piano di rinnovo (costituzione di un vivaio interno?)


Aspetti del carbonio e della biodiversità: • Dividere il parco in tre zone (A, B e C)

• zona A (parte centrale del parco) libera e completa fruizione da parte del pubblico • Basso grado di naturalità • Elevati costi di gestione

• zona B (zone periferiche) accesso regolamentato (cartellonistica e delimitazioni) • zona C (parte scoscesa retrostante la Villa) accesso limitato, interventi di messa in

sicurezza limitati al sentiero, area destinata a fungere da serbatoio di biodiversità e carbonio

• Le zone tre zone dovrebbero seguire un gradiente di naturalità. • nelle zone B e C in particolare si avrebbe:

• creazione di habitat mediante rilascio di legno morto in diverse forme e strutture (anche artificiali)

• piantumazione di specie erbacee ed arbustive appetite alla fauna al fine di attrarla ed indurla a nidificare

• presenza di fauna in grado di contaminare la zona A (uccelli, anfibi, insetti, ecc).

Prevedere una zonazione di questo tipo consente di: • garantire un'elevata presenza di fauna anche nella zona dedicata alla fruizione al pubblico • rendere più piacevole ed interessante la frequentazione del parco • Dare la possibilità di ospitare eventi legati alla didattica su tematiche attuali (biodiversità

cambiamenti climatici stock di carbonio, ecc.


Environment

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