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Bueno R.
Cattle seed dispersal services and perspectives for management in a high biodiversity Mediterranean silvopastoral system
In Mediterranean traditional silvopastoral systems are composed mostly with oaks, with an overall lack of fleshy-fruited species, key elements in Mediterranean flora. A mixed composition may enhance biodiversity and diversify fodder for livestock, and at the same time guarantee higher resistance, resilience and a richer network of ecological interactions. Here we investigated the interactions of cattle and native fleshy-fruited species in a high biodiversity silvopastoral system inside the last large forest remnant in western Sicily, Italy. Along two fruiting seasons we used sampling transects covering the gradient from the forest to the pastureland and analyzed 132 cattle dungs, of which 4…
Bird abundance and richness in ten Mediterranean agroforestry systems
Since the last century agriculture is strongly promoting the simplification of the landscape. The LIFE Desert Adapt project is been developed across 1000 hectares in Italy, Spain, Portu-gal and has the objective of implementing integrative agroforestry-based land use planning and management, and one of the indicators to evaluate the project effectiveness is birds richness and abundance. Here we present the results of the first assessment and explore the relationships with the main vegetation cover types. We established 68 sampling points where we recorded bird abundance and richness. In total we registered 57 bird species, sampling points surrounded by woodlands presented 50 species, while …
La struttura spaziale della successione secondaria delle piante legnose in un pascolo mediterraneo
Negli ultimi decenni molte aree agricole e pastorali dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo sono state abbandonate o hanno subito importanti cambiamenti nell'intensità dell'uso antropico, determinando processi di successione secondaria a volte anche rapidi dopo secoli di attività agricola determinando in alcuni casi un forte cambiamento nelle proporzioni tra aree agricole e aree forestali in molti paesi tra cui l’Italia. Nonostante molti studi abbiano descritto gli aspetti fitosociologici e strutturali di questa successione secondaria in diverse aree del Mediterraneo, la maggior parte di questi studi sono stati condotti su larga scala, con pochi dati disponibili riguardo alla struttura spaziale svi…