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Francesco Pelleri

Francesco Pelleri
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics CREA · Forestry and Wood

BSc

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Introduction
Francesco Pelleri is currently a retired researcher who worked untill 2020 at the Forestry Research Centre, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics CREA. Francesco Pelleri made researches in Agroforestry, Ecology, Environmental Science and Forestry. His last project was 'Second generation of planted hardwood forests in the EU (WOODnat)'.
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December 1990 - February 2016
Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis
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  • Researcher
January 1990 - December 2015
Counsil for Agricultural Research and Economics CREA
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  • Researcher

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Publications (91)
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On an agrosilvopastoral farm in central Italy where Maremmana cattle graze in Turkey oak forests, we evaluated the impact of different livestock densities on stand structure, tree diversity and natural regeneration in four types of grazed areas based on the grazing regime adopted: calf-grazed, high-intensity-grazed, low-intensity-grazed, ungrazed c...
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Gli studi effettuati per valutare il ruolo delle matricine nei cedui di castagno concordano nell'affermare che la loro presenza condiziona negativamente la struttura e l'accrescimento dei polloni, limitando in particolare lo sviluppo e la dominanza delle ceppaie. Gli effetti negativi, oltre alla componente cedua, riguardano anche la rinnovazione da...
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Per "sistema selvicolturale" s'intende l'insieme di operazioni messe in atto per la coltura, l'utilizzazione e la messa in rinnovazione di un bosco. I sistemi selvicolturali indicati per il governo a ceduo del castagneto variano in funzione degli obiettivi specifici, ma possono essere raggruppati in due diverse categorie di selvicoltura: quella di...
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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...
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L'articolo ripercorre le attività di ricerca e sperimentazione condotte dal CREA Centro di ricerca Foreste e Legno, che da 50 anni or sono realizzava protocolli di ricerca nelle tipologie di ceduo più diffuse e ne iniziava un periodico periodico e sistematico monitoraggio che prosegue tutt'oggi. L'obiettivo era ed è quello di dare indicazioni gesti...
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In the last decades, releasing standards have become a very common and in some cases even mandatory management options in coppice systems in Europe. As for the chestnut tree, a light demanding and fast-growing species, however, there is a lively debate and a lack of scientific evidences about the pros and cons of releasing standards, especially in...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Traditionally, taper equations are developed from measurements collected through a destructive sampling of trees. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) enables high levels of accuracy of individual tree parameters measurement avoiding tree felling. With this study, we wanted to assess the performance of two approaches to calibrate a taper function: usin...
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Traditionally, taper equations are developed from measurements collected through a destructive sampling of trees. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) enables high levels of accuracy of individual tree parameters measurement avoiding tree felling. With this study, we wanted to assess the performance of two approaches to calibrate a taper function: usin...
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Species interactions in mixed plantations can influence tree growth, resources capture and soil fertility of the stands. A combined approach of tree-ring analyses and carbon stable isotope was used to check tree growth and water use efficiency of two species, Populus alba L. and Juglans regia L., intercropped with each other and with N-fixing or co...
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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.
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Tree planting on abandoned agricultural land could both restore the soil quality and increase the productivity of economically valuable woody species. Here, we assess the impact of mixed-species tree plantations on soil quality at a site in Central Italy where tree intercropping systems were established 20 years ago on a former agricultural land. T...
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Within the activity of the H2020 'WOODnat' project ("Second generation of planted hardwood forests in the European Union") the growth parameters, yield and sanitary conditions of the most important walnut (Juglans spp.) plantations, established in Italy in the 1990s and in Spain starting from 1996, were recorded. One of the objectives of the projec...
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The invasion of the Asian chestnut gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus (ACGW) in Europe has caused serious biological and economic impacts on chestnut stands that have been partially solved with the introduction of the biological control agent Torymus sinensis. However, information concerning tree‐ring growth during the ACGW epidemic has been lacking s...
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In Italy, forest tree crops cover an area of about 100,000 hectares of farmland: more than half are represented by specialized poplar plantations, while the remaining consists mainly of hardwood broadleaves plantations. The profitability of poplar and hardwood broadleaved plantations, assessed by field data collected on a representative number of p...
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Thinning intensity is an important factor affecting forest structure and density and influencing tree growth. The main objective of the study is to evaluate how the different intensity of thinning can influence, in the short and long term, the productivity and intrinsic water use efficiency (WUEi) of Quercus robur L., a widespread European species....
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The management of Italian chestnut coppices has gradually been suspended after World War II, causing a widespread overaging of the concerned stands. In recent years, the renewed interest in coppice wood products increased the need of a solid knowledge on the most suitable restoration practices of overaged coppices. In this context, a key issue is a...
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The goal of this study is to assess the impact of different thinning approaches for coppice conversion into high forest of Turkey oak stands in Italy. The stand structure and the tree/shrub diversity were analyzed in 27 long-term monitoring plots from 7 experimental trials in the Colline Metallifere district (Tuscany, Central Italy) to verify the c...
Conference Paper
Premessa Le classificazioni e definizioni esistenti in tipolo-gie dei soprassuoli puri o a prevalenza di castagno lasciano spesso ampi margini per interpretazioni sog-gettive, ciò che può portare a confusioni e fraintendi-menti nella stesura di regolamenti forestali, misure di finanziamento e rilievi inventariali. Il contesto casta-nicolo risulta o...
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Introduzione Nei cedui, il rilascio delle matricine è una pratica dif-fusa quasi esclusivamente in Italia e giustificata più dalla consuetudine che dall'effettivo assolvimento delle funzioni attribuite a questa componente. Zanzi Sulli e Di Pasquale (1993) hanno esaminato, attraverso la letteratura scientifica storica, il pensiero selvicolturale uff...
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Key message The adoption of new silvicultural methods and approaches requires an understanding of the differences between those and “old” or “conventional” approaches, along with extensive training to break previous knowledge bias. Context Forestry is in transition towards ecosystem-based management, and new silvicultural approaches are appearing w...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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Mixed-species plantation containing N-fixing species can increase stand productivity maintaining also soil fertility. However, scanty information is related to the best forest management strategies able to guarantee both the enrichment of tree growth and the increase of soil fertility. In this context, our work aim to evaluate the productivity of a...
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Questo documento si inserisce nel contesto delle attività previste dalla Scheda Foreste n. 22.2 del programma Rete Rurale Nazionale 2014-2020, volte a supportare e favorire la politica di sviluppo rurale attraverso: • supporto alla partecipazione del partenariato, delle organizzazioni e delle amministrazioni all’attuazione della politica di svilupp...
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Climate change alters the thermal environment of animals, affecting animal health, reproduction, and the feed conversion efficiency. Environmental stress and, more specifically, thermal stress directly affect productivity and health of livestock resulting in significant economic losses. Agroforestry is a land-use strategy to cope with climate chang...
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Over the last decades, the abandonment of the traditional management due to many adverse factors caused a general aging of chestnut coppices; this led to an increased mortality of the chestnut stools and a consequent replacement with the entry of other species. Preservation and improvement of the chestnut coppice emphasize the importance of natural...
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Forest management strategies for addressing global climate change have become an increasingly important issue. Among forest management practices, thinning is the most commonly applied treatment for improving tree productivity. Thinning is able to decrease competition between the remaining trees and improve stand vigour, thereby effectively increasi...
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The relationship between climate change mitigation measures and water is a reciprocal one. Mitigation measures can influence water resources and their management, and it is necessary to realise this when developing and evaluating mitigation options. Indeed, it is important that carbon sequestration strategies consider all environmental consequences...
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First results from The European project WoodNat: second generation of planted hardwood forests in EU
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Over the last 50 years, many unfavourable factors have led to the abandonment of the traditional management of many chestnut coppices. This generated a general aging of the stands and a related reduction of the slope stability, emphasizing the importance of natural regeneration for future forest management. Natural regeneration from seed contribute...
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Mixed-species plantations containing non-nitrogen (N)-fixing species and N-fixing species have the potential to increase the productivity and the ecophysiological performance of the target tree species in comparison to monoculture. However, there are few and conflicting data on the effects of fixed N transfer on species water use efficiency in the...
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Coppice management in Italy has traditionally focused on a single or few dominating tree species. Tree-oriented silviculture can represent an alternative management system to get high value timber production in mixed coppice forests. This study illustrates an application of the tree-oriented silvicultural approach in Turkey oak (Quercus cerris L.)...
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Home Download Paper Contents Paper Sections Page Top Introduction Past and current management Approaches of modern coppice silviculture The landscape perspective: policy and management requirements Concluding remarks Acknowledgments References Paper Figures Paper Tables Supplementary Material Home Contents Early View Current Volume Journal Arch...
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Tree-oriented silviculture is an innovative approach of forest management aimed at enhancing a limited number of early-selected crop trees whose growth is favored over the full rotation period by applying frequent thinning in their neighborhood. This approach was originally applied to high forests, but can also be applied to coppices to maintain or...
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In the past centuries, a notable reduction of lowland forests in Italy was detected as a result of the expansion of intensive agriculture and deforestation activities. According to the National Forest Inventory (INFC 2005), the English oak (Quercus robur L.) is mainly a scattered species distributed across 146,000 hectares of mixed forests. This sp...
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To reduce GreenHouse Gas (GHG) emissions, the Kyoto Protocol identifies a number of activities that are closely related to land use, included in the category called Agriculture, Forestry and Land Uses (AFOLU). While forests and agricultural systems result in CO2 absorptions (live biomass, dead biomass and soil), every process undertaken for their m...
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To reduce GreenHouse Gas (GHG) emissions, the Kyoto Protocol identifies a number of activities that are closely related to land use, included in the category called Agriculture, Forestry and Land Uses (AFOLU). While forests and agricultural systems result in CO2 absorptions (live biomass, dead biomass and soil), every process undertaken for their m...
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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...
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In Italy, as in the rest of Europe, tree farming and agroforestry systems can contribute significantly to domestic wood production, for industrial usage and energy conversion, combining productive activities with ecosystem services. This has been demonstrated in the last few years by many research studies carried out at national and international l...
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According to FAO, a 12.9% crop land decrease was registered in Europe from 1965 to 2001 and it was particularly evident in Italy (-29.7%). Besides, FAO stated a further reduction of forest (-1.7%) and cropland (-3.1%) from 2000 to 2013. Over the same period, forest land increased of 0.7% at European level confirming the positive trend occurred over...
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In this contribution we present the results of a Swiss-Italian joint sylvicultural experiment to verify if and how the single-tree-oriented silviculture can be applied to chestnut coppices to enhance timber production for industry and structural timber. The study was carried out in five 7 to 17 years old, pure chestnut coppice stands growing on sit...
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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:...
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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...
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Secondary woodland has recently attained notable importance in terms of its extension, increasing the wooded area of Central Europe, and by raising new questions about its management. In the Italian pre-Alps, ash-lime and ash-sycamore woodlands cover more than 150,000 ha. Usually, these new woodlands occupy privately-owned, abandoned farmland. They...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The paper summarises the results obtained in Italy for Greek fir and the Abies species of the Pontus Region. The testing with these species was started about 40 years ago and the goal was to know the possibility of introduction of these species in central-southern Apennines, in areas characterized by drought, high temperature sand limestone soils,...
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Ash-sycamore stands have been assuming a considerable territorial importance in Northern Italy over the last decades. According to the National Forest and Carbon Sinks Inventory (INFC), these stands form the type of “sycamore-lime mountain & ash forests” and “Apennine maple forests”. These forests amount to 153904 hectares (88% in the Northern regi...
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The results of peduncolate Oak plantation trials where the Oak is mixed to wild Cherry and narrow-leaf Ash per line and per close mixture with different proportions (25% and 50%) of N-fixing species (Black Locust and Italian Alder) are described in the paper. The plantation, carried out in winter 1988-89, was framed into a reafforestation plan for...