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Claudia Cocozza

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Integrated biomonitoring of airborne pollutants over space and time using tree rings, bark, leaves and epiphytic lichens

2016

The integrated use of tree rings and outer tissues, and lichens, was tested for monitoring how pollutant concentrations vary in space and over time nearby an incinerator in industrial area in Central Italy. Trace elements in thalli of lichen Xanthoria parietina and in leaves, bark, wood of Quercus pubescens, as well as carbon, oxygen and nitrogen isotope ratios in tree rings were analyzed. Some trace elements in the leaves differed significantly between the plots, though this was not the case in lichens and bark. The values of δ13C and δ18O showed the same trend in all plots, while the values of δ15N were higher in the distal plot. The results indicated that trace elements were intercepted …

010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesSoil Science010501 environmental sciencesQuercus pubescens01 natural sciencesXanthoria parietinaBiomonitoringBotanyDendrochronologyFoliose thalliLichen0105 earth and related environmental sciencesEcologybiologyTree ringsXylemForestrybiology.organism_classificationPollutionStable isotopeThallusvisual_artBiomonitoringvisual_art.visual_art_mediumBarkDendrochemistry
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Could cattle ranching and soybean cultivation be sustainable? A systematic review and a meta-analysis for the Amazon

2021

Abstract: Tropical forests are being destroyed to make space for agricultural activities with the assumption that they are required to feed the growing global population. Consequently, more sustainable practices are needed to guarantee food security and environmental protection of highly threatened natural biodiversity hotspots like the Amazon rainforest. Cattle ranching and soybean cultivation are by far the greater drivers of land use change and deforestation in the Amazon region. We performed a systematic review of papers related to these two main drivers and a meta-analysis on the effects of sustainable practices on different ecosystem services. The results of the review highlight a lar…

Settore BIO/07 - EcologiaSettore AGR/05 - Assestamento Forestale E SelvicolturaSustainable PracticesEcosystem servicesDeforestationTropical ForestLand use land-use change and forestryAgroforestryEcosystem ServicesNature and Landscape ConservationBiomass (ecology)Agroforestry; Cattle; Ecosystem Services; Silvopastoral Systems; Soybean; Sustainable Practices; Tropical ForestFood securityEcologyAmazon rainforestbusiness.industryAgroforestryTropical Forest Agroforestry Ecosystem Services Silvopastoral Systems Sustainable Practices Cattle Soybeanfood and beveragesForestrySD1-669.5Silvopastoral SystemsGeographyAgricultureCattleLivestockbusiness
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The Italian TREETALKER NETWORK (ITT-Net): continuous large scale monitoring of tree functional traits and vulnerabilities to climate change

2020

<p>The  <strong>Italian TREETALKER NETWORK (ITT-Net) </strong>aims to respond to one of the grand societal challenges: the impact of climate changes on forests ecosystem services and forest dieback. The comprehension of the link between these phenomena requires to complement the most classical approaches with a new monitoring paradigm based on large scale, single tree, high frequency and long-term monitoring tree physiology, which, at present, is limited by the still elevated costs of multi-sensor devices, their energy demand and maintenance not always suitable for monitoring in remote areas. The ITT-Net network will be a unique and un…

Tree (data structure)Scale (ratio)Settore AGR/05 - ASSESTAMENTO FORESTALE E SELVICOLTURAbusiness.industryEnvironmental resource managementEnvironmental scienceClimate changetree monitoring network climate changes forests ecosystem servicesNet (mathematics)business
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