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Low mimosine content and nutrient-rich foliage of two Leucaena leucocephala varieties: a potential fodder resource in Mediterranean agroforestry syst…

2022

Leucaena leucocephala is worldwide used for wood production, reforestation and for feeding livestock. To assess the potential use of leucaena for animal nutrition, we analysed the composition of methanolic extracts of leaf samples of two varieties occurring in Sicily (Mediterranean area), also determining the presence of mimosine.

woody speciesSettore AGR/05 - Assestamento Forestale E Selvicolturaanimal nutritionfodder legumetoxicityPlant ScienceSettore CHIM/06 - Chimica OrganicaHPLCEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics
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Carbon stock increases up to old growth forest along a secondary succession in Mediterranean island ecosystems.

2019

The occurrence of old-growth forests is quite limited in Mediterranean islands, which have been subject to particularly pronounced human impacts. Little is known about the carbon stocks of such peculiar ecosystems compared with different stages of secondary succession. We investigated the carbon variation in aboveground woody biomass, in litter and soil, and the nitrogen variation in litter and soil, in a 100 years long secondary succession in Mediterranean ecosystems. A vineyard, three stages of plant succession (high maquis, maquis-forest, and forest-maquis), and an old growth forest were compared. Soil samples at two soil depths (0-15 and 15-30 cm), and two litter types, relatively undec…

TopographySecondary succession010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesSettore AGR/05 - Assestamento Forestale E SelvicolturaEcological SuccessionMediterranean forests Carbon pools Soil carbon and nitrogen Holm oak Quercus ilex Sclerophyllous woody speciesEcological successionForests01 natural sciencesTreesSoilBiomassIslandsMultidisciplinarygeography.geographical_feature_categoryEcologyQRSoil chemistryEukaryota04 agricultural and veterinary sciencesPlantsOld-growth forestWoodTerrestrial EnvironmentsSettore AGR/02 - Agronomia E Coltivazioni ErbaceeMedicineEngineering and TechnologyEnvironmental MonitoringResearch ArticleCarbon SequestrationEnvironmental EngineeringForest EcologyEcological MetricsNitrogenScienceEcosystemsMediterranean IslandsOaksForest ecologyHumansEcosystemEcosystem0105 earth and related environmental sciencesgeographyLandformsEcology and Environmental SciencesOrganismsBiology and Life SciencesGeomorphologySoil carbonCarbonAgronomy040103 agronomy & agricultureLitterEarth Sciences0401 agriculture forestry and fisheriesEnvironmental sciencePloS one
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The use of species in plantations: renaturalisation and reforestation in Sicily

2017

Afforestation and reforestation activities in Sicily have been widespread in the last century, in order to increase the forest cover that was seriously reduced in the former centuries. Notwithstanding this, Sicily is still characterized by only the 12% of the regional surface covered by woods and forest. The reforestation in the last century was carried out using conifers and eucalypts, just in order to ensure a quick protection of slopes and pastureland, coping diffuse erosion events, and those intervention had a remarkable success. Nowadays, the target of enlarging the forest areas in the island is still compulsive, but the use of species, considering the actual knowledge and nature consc…

Settore AGR/05 - Assestamento Forestale E SelvicolturaAfforestation Reforestation GIS Ecologically Homogeneous Areas Woody species
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