Claudio Bidini

• Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis

Sporadic valuable tree species and especially Sorbus species have gained importance in forest management as they increase tree biodiversity, ensure a higher resilience of the stand to climate change, and enhance valuable timber production. This paper reports the first results of a trial carried out in Central Italy in a Turkey oak coppice stand (ag...

Aim of study: To verify the short rotation coppices (SRC) aboveground biomass production; to define the best planting intra-row spacing for walnut and poplar growth and wood production, with the last goal to assess the possibility of obtaining competitive yields in comparison to those produced by traditional monocultures. Area of study: Po Valley,...

Per valutare l’impatto della fauna selvatica sul processo di rinnovazione, sono stati analizzati due casi di studio: uno in una fustaia di pino nero, utilizzata 8 anni fa, in cui parte della superficie era stata recintata; l’altro in un ceduo di cerro di 2 anni per determinare la capacità di ricaccio e l’entità dei danni in funzione dell’origine, d...

Traditional thinning and stand silviculture had positive effects on tree stability, stand efficiency and tree growth if compared to the lack of management. Nevertheless, the tree oriented silviculture has proven to be a type of management best meets the multifunctionality pourpouses required by forests today. In Italy beech high forests are general...

The paper describes the principal techniques and cultural models suitable for common walnut cultivation pointing out the high potentiality of this tree and the limitations of walnut cultivation.

The dataset reports data collected in 38 square (50 x 50m) 0.25 ha plots representative of poplar plantations in Lombardy Region (Northern Italy), which were used to calibrate optical information derived from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and satellite (Sentinel-2) sensors. In each plot, the diameter at breast height was measured using a caliper; h...

Walnut tree species (Juglans spp.) are commonly used for high-quality wood production in plantation forestry. In this paper, the most relevant walnut plantations in Italy and Spain have been reviewed and analysed under a geographic and techni- cian management point of view. Between 2016 and 2019 a total of 96 plantations (15 - 25 years old) were vi...

"Comparison among different schemes and plant densities in oak plantations (Quercus petraea [Matt.] Liebel.): a case study in Umbria, Central Italy." - The results of tree farming plantation, aged 20 years, characterized by three different planting designs are reported. The plantation designs differ in planting densities and by the presence/absen...

This book is a result of the project ‘Second generation of planted hardwood forests in the EU — Woodnat’, financed by the European Commission, carried out by a companies’ temporal consortium integrating Seistag Innovacion SL (Spain), Industrial Plants OOD (Bulgaria), ECM Ingenieria Ambiental SL (Spain), WAF Estructuras Digitales SL (Spain), Losan R...

The Woodnat project (H2020) has the goal of identifying the problems that led to poor yields in walnut plantations established under the financial support of EU 2080/92 Regulation and Rural Development Programme, and of improving the market demand for smaller assortments. Some of the plantations monitored in the framework of the project needed thin...

First results from The European project WoodNat: second generation of planted hardwood forests in EU

Cultivation systems of the oldest oak pure plantation (aged 34 yr) carried out, during the environmental restoration plan of soil dumps of Santa Barbara ENEL mine in Cavriglia (AR) is reported. The objective of the work are ì) to verify the possibility to restore the soil dump using tree farming plantations to produce valuable timber. ìì) to test t...

This report aims to provide a description of the cultivation techniques adopted at the oldest oak pure plantation (age 34) established within the environmental restoration plan of soil dumps at the Santa Barbara ENEL Company opencast mine in Cavriglia (AR). The goals of the initial plan, following which the plantation was carried out, were to (i) v...

Results of a mixed plantation with poplar, walnut and nurse trees established in winter 2003 in Northern Italy, are reported. Main tree species (poplar and walnut) were planted according to a rectangular design (10 x 11m), with different spacings and alternate lines. The experimental trial was carried out to verify the following working hypotheses:...

The experimental plantation, about 3.0 hectares, was set up in 1999 in a floodplain near Pesaro (Marche Region) on a fertile crop land. Eight theses were compared: 1 thesis: pure walnut, 2: walnut intercropped with autumn olive (50% and 75%), and 5 theses: walnut intercropped with different nurse trees (elm, field maple, white willow, italian alder...

Riassunto-Si riportano i risultati di una piantagione sperimentale di noce (Juglans regia L.) realizzata nel febbraio del 1999 su una superfi cie di circa 3 ettari nei pressi di Pesaro. Sono state realizzate 8 tesi: una con il noce in purezza, due con noce ed eleagno (50 e 75%) e cinque con il noce consociato con 5 diverse specie arboree (olmo, ace...

The paper describes first tree-oriented silviculture interventions in Tuscany young broadleaves coppice. The interventions have been planned in the framework of the Life+ project PProSpoT with the aim to introduce the tree –oriented silviculture in Tuscany forests. Different criteria of crown thinnings have been carried on only around target spora...