The structure and composition of temperate old-growth oak forests are reviewed based on
108 case studies about 175 stands. The stands were classified as dry, dry-mesic and mesic …

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 …

Purpose This article aims to compare the LiDAR handheld mobile laser scanner (HMLS)
scans with traditional survey methods, as the tree gauge and the hypsometer, to study the …

A large portion of the Mediterranean basin suffers from a lack of organic carbon in the soil
and low woody cover percentages, resulting in a very high risk of desertification. In such …

Habitat loss is a potential long-term effect of projected climate change for Mediterranean
forest ecosystems. Here, we investigated the effectiveness of a close-to-nature silvicultural …

Conservation and enhancement of old-growth forests are key in forest planning and policies.
In order to do so, more knowledge is needed on how the attributes traditionally associated …

Mediterranean forests have been altered by several human activities. Consequently,
relatively intact forests that have been unmodified by humans for a relatively long time (ie …

This paper presents a multidisciplinary summary of the most recent discoveries and
hypotheses concerning factors driving the human subsistence economy and landscape …

Sardinia is subject to many fire events each year. A visibility analysis of old-growth woods
from the network of fire lookouts was performed; the visibility of fires from lookouts and the …

This article presents the results of a study on plant diversity at different levels in residual
forest stands, located in the historical Favorita Park in Palermo, Italy (established and named …