Mapping forest ecosystem functions for landscape planning in a mountain Natura2000 site,Central Italy |
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| Authors: | Matteo Vizzarri Ugo Chiavetta Giovanni Santopuoli Daniela Tonti Marco Marchetti |
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| Institution: | 1. Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Isernia, Italy;2. Consiglio per la Ricerca e la sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Forestry Research Centre, Arezzo, Italy |
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| Abstract: | In last decades, numerous efforts have been carried out by the scientific community to assess the multifunctional role of forests in supporting the forest decision-making processes. Recently developed in Italy, the Forest Landscape Management Planning seems to be the most suitable tool to maintain the sustainability balance between forests and local populations. This research identifies and maps different forest ecosystem functions in a mountain Natura2000 Network site by performing a spatial estimation of forest inventory parameters, and implementing a multi-criteria and multi-level approach. Final results on mapping of forest functions show acceptable values of classification accuracy. |
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| Keywords: | sustainable forest management forest ecosystem functions forest landscape management planning k-NN multi-criteria and multi-level approach |
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