Matsucoccus bast scale in Pinus pinaster forests: a comparison of two systems by means of emergy analysis

Turcato, Claudia; Paoli, Chiara; Scopesi, Claudia; Montagnani, Chiara; Mariotti, Mauro; Vassallo, Paolo

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.01.102

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“…Other authors recognized the existence of nonanthropocentric measures of value and proposed biophysical evaluation methods, providing a complementary approach to the economic assessment of natural resources (Odum, 1988(Odum, , 1996Wackernagel et al, 1999;Muller, 2005;Jørgensen, 2010;Muller and Burkhard, 2012;Paoli et al, 2017). In particular, Odum (1996) introduced a measure of natural value named "emergy" that has been widely applied to explore the interplay of natural ecosystems and human activities (Vassallo et al, 2009;Brown and Ulgiati, 2011;Franzese et al, 2013Franzese et al, , 2014Buonocore et al, 2014;Turcato et al, 2015;Nikodinoska et al, 2017). The emergy method consists in a donor-side approach where the evaluation of the ecosystem functions or services depends on the amount of resources invested by nature to generate and maintain them, independently of users ascribing a value to a function or service (Pulselli et al, 2011;Paoli et al, 2013;Vassallo et al, 2017).…”

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Ecosystem functions and economic wealth: Trajectories of change in seagrass meadows

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Ferrari

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Ecosystem functions and economic wealth: Trajectories of change in seagrass meadows

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Ferrari

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…A study of Ligurian P. pinaster stands showed that M. feytaudi caused a significant regression of infested forests, reducing the arboreal composition and favouring sprouting of understorey species that benefited from the increased sunlight caused by crown reduction of the affected trees, with consequences for soil stability (Turcato et al , 2015).…”

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Adaptive management of invasive pests in natural protected areas: the case of Matsucoccus feytaudi in Central Italy

Sciarretta

Marziali

Squarcini

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Bull. Entomol. Res.

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Invasive species are a significant threat to affected ecosystems, having serious environmental, economic and social impacts. The maritime pine bast scale, Matsucoccus feytaudi Ducasse (Hemiptera: Matsucoccidae), causes serious damage to Pinus pinaster forests in SE France, Corsica and Italy where it has been introduced. This study illustrates the adaptive management plan implemented in the Migliarino, San Rossore, Massaciuccoli Regional Natural Park in Tuscany, Italy, where M. feytaudi arrived in 2004, leading to the decay of local P. pinaster stands. The management programme, aimed at slowing the establishment and growth of M. feytaudi, was carried out in the main sector of the park, Tenuta di San Rossore, to retard the destruction of the P. pinaster coastal strip protecting the more internal woodland from sea salt and to allow replacement of P. pinaster trees with a more stable broad-leaved wood. The combined use of mass trapping and silvicultural interventions, applied in a targeted manner according to distribution maps of pest captures and damage, helped to delay forest destruction compared with a nearby unmanaged area of the park Tenuta di Tombolo. Although M. feytaudi continued to spread during the management period, the populations remained at low levels for 6 years, showing a marked increase in 2012. During this period, the P. pinaster stands were reduced from 320 to 249 ha. The final result of this ongoing gradual conversion process will be transformation of the P. pinaster forest into Holm oak woods and Mediterranean shrub land, while P. pinaster will survive as clusters or blocks of trees.

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“…The most widespread is the pine forest (64.9%), that in reality corresponds to forests with prevalence of pine but also with a significative lower layer of broadleaved species, and of species typical of the Mediterranean maquis, such as Quercus ilex, Arbutus unedo and Erica spp. In fact, the Pinus pinaster trees that were so common in the area are currently dying due to an infection of Matsucoccus feytaudi [35]. This forest typology is followed by Sclerophyll vegetation and Mediterranean maquis (20.7%), forests with prevalence of chestnuts (18.4%) and by mixed forests of conifer and broadleaved (17.5%).…”

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Forest Area Changes in Cinque Terre National Park in the Last 80 Years. Consequences on Landslides and Forest Fire Risks

Santoro

Venturi

Piras

et al. 2021

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Cinque Terre, one of the most important Italian cultural landscapes, has not been spared from depopulation and agricultural abandonment processes, that involved many rural areas in Europe, as a consequence of socio-economic transformations that occurred after WWII. Depopulation of rural areas, especially in mountains or in terraced areas, caused significant environmental consequences, such as the decrease of biodiversity, the landscape homogenization, the increase of hydrogeological and forest fires risks. Cinque Terre National Park (5TNP) was established in 1999, and, differently from other Italian National Parks, not just for protecting natural habitats, but mainly to preserve, restore and valorize the historical terraced landscape. Moreover, the area is a UNESCO cultural landscape site and it is partly protected by three Sites of Community Importance. The research intended to investigate the transformations that have affected forested areas inside the 5TNP in the period 1936–2018, also highlighting the connections with hydrogeological and forest fires risks, as a support for the Park planning strategies and the conservation of the UNESCO site. Results highlighted that 37% of the current forests are the consequence of dry stones terraces abandonment that occurred in the twentieth century, with negative effects on the stability of steep slopes, hydrogeological risk, forest fires and on the conservation of a unique cultural landscape. This confirms the current national trend showing no deforestation occurring, but rather a continuous increase of forests on abandoned land. While 5TNP policies and actions are effectively aimed at pursuing an equilibrium between cultivated areas and forests, the Sites of Community Importance located inside the Park mainly focuses on the conservation of “natural habitats”, even if the current vegetation is also the result of secondary successions on former cultivated land. The research highlighted the need to valorize “cultural values” in forest planning as well as the importance of forest history for an accurate planning of forest resources in protected areas.

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Matsucoccus bast scale in Pinus pinaster forests: a comparison of two systems by means of emergy analysis

Cited by 27 publications

References 62 publications

Ecosystem functions and economic wealth: Trajectories of change in seagrass meadows

Ecosystem functions and economic wealth: Trajectories of change in seagrass meadows

Adaptive management of invasive pests in natural protected areas: the case of Matsucoccus feytaudi in Central Italy

Forest Area Changes in Cinque Terre National Park in the Last 80 Years. Consequences on Landslides and Forest Fire Risks

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