Guest Editors
Dr. Giacomo Mei, Department of Agri-environmental and Territorial Sciences, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Via G. Amendola 165/A, I-70126 Bari, Italy
Dr. Adriano Stinca, Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Via Vivaldi 43, I-81100 Caserta, Italy
Summary
The silvicultural practices, developed and perfected over centuries on the basis of the geographical, climatic, vegetational and pedological characteristics of the different areas of interest, have become an integral part of the dynamics of forest ecosystems and traditional landscape. In fact, every silvicultural practice influences and is itself influenced by the vegetation that occurs in the various stages of forest dynamics. However, in the last decades, socio-economic changes, technological innovations, and the disappearance of the demand for some products in favor of others have often caused modification, replacement or abandonment of some traditional forestry practices with unknown and often underestimated effects on the biodiversity of the forest ecosystem, from the species level to the community one. The knowledge of these effects on biodiversity is urgent especially in a scenario of global climate change. Aim of this special issue is to promote knowledge of the interaction between silvicultural practices and plant diversity in order to provide innovative information for the analysis of these aspects and useful knowledges for the restoration and/or conservation of plant and landscape diversity of forest areas.
Keywords
forest management, forest vegetation, forest soil, coppice, high-forest, forest plantation, reforestation, ecological dynamics, land use change, forest restoration, forest conservation, abandonment
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