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Portoghesi Luigi

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• Research Article
  Tree Community Ordering by Diversity Profiles: an Application to Chestnut Coppices
  Author(s): Walter Mattioli, Piermaria Corona, Lorenzo Fattorini, Sara Franceschi, Luigi Portoghesi and Caterina Pisani Walter Mattioli, Piermaria Corona, Lorenzo Fattorini, Sara Franceschi, Luigi Portoghesi and Caterina Pisani
  
  The ecological and economical relevance of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) has long been related to its widespread geographical distribution and multipurpose product potential. In Italy, chestnut management represents a paradigmatic example of the potential conflict between landowner targets and tree species diversity conservation. Distinctively, the relationships between silvicultural treatment and tree species diversity of chestnut coppices are here investigated by means of diversity profiles to assess tree diversity of six stands in Central Italy. The stands were purposively selected in such a way to be characterized by the same site conditions but with different silvicultural features (age, number of thinning). Plot sampling was performed across the stands and their tree diversity was compared and ordered by means of intrinsic diversity profiles estimated from the sample da.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2168-9776.1000122

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