From the experience of LIFE+ ManFor C.BD to the Manual of Best Practices in Sustainable Forest Management

Abstract

The Italian Journal of Agronomy (IJA) is the official journal of the Italian Society of Agronomy for the publication of original research papers reporting experimental and theoretical contributions to agronomy and crop science. Typical subjects covered by the IJA include: i) crop physiology, ii) crop production and management, iii) agroclimatology and modelling, iv) plant-soil relationships, v) crop quality and post-harvest physiology, vi) farming and cropping systems, vii) agroecosystems and the environment, viii) agricultural ecology, ix) advances in traditional and innovative crops, x) crop and system modelling. Instructions to AuthorsManuscripts must be submitted online at www.agronomy.it only; do not submit via e-mail or surface mail.Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are strongly recommended to have their manuscript checked by a language editing service, or by an English mother-tongue colleague prior to submission. Manuscripts should be saved and submitted as a single WORD file containing the full text, references, tables and figures. In case of acceptance, original text and figures must be provided for publication.Original Articles should normally be divided into an abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion and references. The abstract should contain a maximum of 400 words. A maximum of 20 authors is permitted, and additional authors should be listed in an ad hoc appendix. Review Articles: no particular format is required for these articles. However, they should have an informative, unstructured abstract of about 250 words. Reviews may also include meta-analyses, guidelines and consensus papers by scientific societies or working groups. These studies must be conducted following proper, widely accepted ad hoc procedures. Short Communications are articles with a simple layout and containing limited data (no more than two figures or tables) and a small number of citations (not more than 25). They should be limited to 2,000 words of text (figure captions, table headings and reference lists are additional to this limit). Letters to the editor should be from 250 to 1,000 words in length. Authors of letters to the editor should provide a short title for their letter.Manuscripts should be double spaced with numbered lines and wide margins and should be arranged as follows. Title page: including the full title, the name(s) of the author(s), their affiliation and the name of the corresponding author to whom proofs and requests for off-prints should be sent. Abstract: should not exceed 400 words. Keywords: three to six keywords characterizing the content of the article in alphabetical order. Introduction: a brief introduction. Materials and methods: this section should provide sufficient information and references on the techniques adopted to permit their replication. Results: the content of this section should permit full comprehension of the data reported in figures and tables. Discussion: this should underline the significance of the resul...

How and How Much, Do Harvesting Activities Affect Forest Soil, Regeneration and Stands?

“…A large number of factors influence the extent and severity of soil compaction. As found by many authors, overall harvesting operations can lead to a reduction in soil porosity [14,[19][20][21][22][23], increased soil erosion [20][21][22][23][24] and a decrease in root penetration and length expansion [19].…”

“…Taking into consideration the abovementioned dangers, the methods of felling, processing, bunching and extraction should be planned on a larger scale and for a longer period of time, with consideration to environmental, economic and social contexts [14]. In recent years, much scientific research has been focused on assessing the impact of logging in relation to sustainability, assessing forest ecosystem resilience and suggesting best practice.…”

Forest Inventory Attribute Prediction Using Lightweight Aerial Scanner Data in a Selected Type of Multilayered Deciduous Forest

“…As a result, on the one hand, there is an increase of forest cover, while, on the other hand, there is a strong interest in assessing the productivity of forests and the trade-off between the production of wood and non-wood forest products, and other ecosystem services, derived from forest resources [6]. For this reason, many efforts have been made in assessing the progress towards SFM, testing, implementing [7,8], and developing (see [9]) new SFM indicators to enable the support of …”

Short-Term Impacts of Harvesting Intensity on the Upper Soil Layers in High Karst Dinaric Fir-Beech Forests

“…A canopy cover of 95%, necessary for natural regeneration, is the typical characteristic of forest canopy conditions (Table 1). Furthermore, forest sites with growing stocks between 270 and 442 m 3 ha −1 and increments between 6.2 and 9.4 m 3 ha −1 yr −1 were described (BA: Forest Management Base for the Igmansko forest area for the period 2004 to 2014; SL: [37]). Climate and soil data indicate similar site conditions.…”

“…Mean annual temperatures (MATs) varied between 7.6 and 11.3 • C and mean annual precipitation (MAP) between 1192 and 1619 mm for the period 1985-2015 (meteorological data were obtained from the website Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute "Climate Explorer" http://climexp.knmi.nl, accessed on 2015). The sites were attributed to calcareous and dolomitic bedrock and the typical soil type complex of Leptosol, Rendzic Leptosol, Cambisol and Luvisol in BA [38] and in SL [37]. The soils found at the sites were predominantly shallow to moderately deep, rocky, rich in soil organic matter and clay content.…”