Anastasia Pantera

Agricultural University of Athens · Faculty of Crop Science (CP)

Agroforestry is a sustainable land management system recognized worldwide but not implemented in a extensive form in temperate and developed countries. Agroforestry has been promoted in the last decades at global level as it provides more efficient and sustainable farming systems. This review aims at summarizing the main research findings explainin...

It is estimated that olive groves cover an area of 700,000 ha in Greece, with 124,311 ha forming agroforestry systems combined with various crops or pasture, established in the understory of the trees. A lush understory grows under the olive trees, consisting mostly of herbaceous vegetation for animal grazing, vegetables and various crops such as c...

This is the final report and analysis of the data collected under the action "Distinction, evaluation and mapping of wetlands of the Great Prespa Lake habitats in the fYR of Macedonia" at the request of the Society for the Protection of Prespa (SPP). The action ran from 29/06/2018 to 30/12/2018, as part of the project “Strengthening NGO-led Conserv...

Agroforestry is an integrated land use management that combines a woody component with a lower story agricultural production recognized as one of the most important tools to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The objective of this paper is to provide a categorization and extent of agroforestry practices linked to agricultural and forest lands at...

Potential benefits and costs of agroforestry practices have been analysed by experts, but few studies have captured farmers’ perspectives on why agroforestry might be adopted on a European scale. This study provides answers to this question, through an analysis of 183 farmer interviews in 14 case study systems in eight European countries. The study...

Most farm-based agroforestry projects focus on the integration of trees on arable or livestock enterprises. This paper focuses on the integration of understorey crops and/or livestock within high value tree systems (e.g., apple orchards, olive groves, chestnut woodlands, and walnut plantations), and describes the components, structure, ecosystem se...

Agroforestry is a sustainable land management system that should be more strongly promoted in Europe to ensure adequate ecosystem service provision in the old continent (Decision 529/2013) through the common agricultural policy (CAP). The promotion of the woody component in Europe can be appreciated in different sections of the CAP linked to Pillar...

Forests, unique in time and space, formed human history and are still closely related with our lives and future. Forests or forest ecosystems are characterized by the species they contain which are, in turn, depended on local environmental conditions and mostly temperature and precipitation. Climate and humans influenced and formed the present comp...

Agroforestry within the Pillar I can be established in arable lands, permanent grasslands and permanent crops, but the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) prevents from agroforestry practices extension. Some improvements have been carried out within the OMNIBUS regulation, mainly linked to avoid the reduction of loss of payments by the presenc...

Foreword. It is a great pleasure to share with you the excellent book of abstracts of the 4th European Agroforestry Conference carried out in the beautiful city of Nijmejen (The Netherlands) during the European Green Capital 2018. The book is plenty of extraordinary information and experiences about agroforestry practices and systems around the wo...

Integrating & Policy to Promote Agroforestry in Practice, 2nd EURAF Conference, 4-6 June 2014, Cottbus, Germany. (Extended Abstract).

Th e best results were achieved in variant 1 because after 3-4 years these steppe communities became similar to natural steppe habitats. In 2002 these experiments were repeated on larger areas (from 2 till 5 ha). Th e experiment with transplan-tation of Stipa swards in natural meadow-steppe community was organized also (Danilov 2005). We described...

EGU General Assembly 2015, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17. Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015.

Valonia oak (Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis (Kotschy) Hedge and Yaltirik), a deciduous species grown in the xerothermic conditions of the east Mediterranean zone of Europe, forms woodlands of open canopy that permits adequate light to reach the ground thus sustaining an exceptionally rich flora. In Greece, these woodlands are mainly used fo...

A noticeable decline of Quercus ithaburensis ssp. Macrolepis, a typical mediterranean species, has been recorded in the past few decades throughout Greece. The triggers were mostly human influence and specifically illegal cuttings, wildfires, and overgrazing. Regeneration and future management of this species is therefore questionable. To define th...

It has been observed that human activity in the form of engineering works, such as channelization (drainage pits and drainage dams, deepening and creation of canals), dam construction (hydroelectric power dams, irrigation dams and water supply dams), diversion and culverting (arrangement and redirection of river channels), as well as other human in...

The relationships between the annual variability of the Aleppo pine tree-ring widths and the variability of the main climatic parameters in the Attica basin are analysed in the present study for a 45-year period (1959-2003). The Principal Components Analysis was applied to the times-series of the tree-rings indices (12 populations) as well as to th...

Grazing is considered as a major factor affecting forage production as well as botanical composition of many silvopastoral systems. In order to study these effects, three pairs of grazed and protected plots were established in a Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis silvopastoral system. The experiment was carried out in western Greece, 15 km west...

The trace element analysis of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill) as a function of tree age, was achieved by the tree-ring sampling method, in a polluted region of Attica, Greece. The elements quantitatively determined for the last 140 years by atomic spectrophotometry analysis were: Cu, Fe, Zn, Mn and Pb. With the exception of Pb, all other elemen...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT In the present paper, we report results from a dendrochronological study related to the Greek fir decline (Abies cephalonica). In the region of Evrytania (central Greece) we collected sample cores from alive and dead Greek fir trees. The sampling areas were located in proximity and had similar site and environmental conditions. On...

This paper presents the effects of a landslide on vegetation located on Tymfristos mountain and more specifically in the basin of the Kati stream, Sperchios river. The landslide areas are described and related to the density and the type of vegetation. The woody vegetation developed on the gliding surface was studied using dendrogeomorphologjcal me...

In this study, we examined the current environmental situation and geological–hydrogeomorphological characteristics, as well as the phenomenon of mass land movement in the area crossed by the National Road Thermopylae– Nafpactos (with an emphasis on the road running between Damasta and Skamnos, Ftiotida) Greece.We also depicted the changes and dist...

The way and methods used for the surface mining of bauxite until the end of the twentieth century in the area of Ghiona, resulted in a significant burden to the natural environment, especially in the cases where it covered extended parts of forests and forest areas as well as important geomorphological formations. The impacts from the surface minin...

These proceedings contain 123 papers which are divided into 5 main sessions. The first session includes the characterization of silvopastoral systems in a global context while the second session deals with the effects of the management tools on the productivity and quality of silvopastoral systems. The ecological implications of the silvopastoral s...

Interplanting N2 fixing species with non N2 fixing companion species results in an increase in growth and N content of the companion plants. Improved nutrition of the companion plant has been attributed to uptake of N released from decomposing litter and soil organic matter derived from the N2 fixing plant. The purpose of this study is to determine...

Interplanting N2 fixing species with non N2 fixing companion species results in an increase in growth and N content of the companion plants. Improved N nutrition of the companion plant has been attributed to uptake of N released from decomposing litter and soil organic matter derived from the N2 fixing plant. The purpose of this study is to determi...