Maurizio Teobaldelli

• PhD in Forest Ecology
• Business Intelligence Developer at Arcadia SIT

Forests provide a number of ecosystem services including biodiversity, which could be added multiple benefits to the climate change mitigation potential arising from implementing REDD+. However, there have also been concerns that harms to ecosystems could ensue from its implementation. Monitoring would be one way to support and promote benefits...

Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and/or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are required to account for their direct human-induced carbon emissions and removals including those from forestry and other land use related activities. In most European countries, the forestry related greenhouse gas inventories are largely or e...

A methodological approach based on detailed land-use map, high-resolution LiDAR data and field surveys was developed to categorize productive and non-productive mixed forests, both in term of stand attributes and structural-diversity. In 2011, leaf-off dedicated airborne LiDAR data were collected in a 20,000 ha inland patchy area which was represen...

Anticipating future migration trends is instrumental to the development of effective policies to manage the challenges and opportunities that arise from population movements. However, anticipation is challenging. Migration is a complex system, with multifaceted drivers, such as demographic structure, economic disparities, political instability, and...

Demographers use microsimulation for studying individual life courses and their attributes; events are specified to be the result of stochastic processes based on predetermined probabilistic rules. In this study, we developed and validated a microsimulation model to reconstruct individual’s life courses and their interactions in different regions o...

This toolkit allows performing continuous-time microsimulation for a wide range of life science (demography, social sciences, epidemiology) applications. Individual life-courses are specified by a continuous-time multi-state model as described in Zinn (2014) <doi:10.34196/IJM.00105>.

Demographers use microsimulation for studying individual life courses and their attributes; events are specified to be the result of stochastic processes based on predetermined probabilistic rules. In this study, we developed and validated a microsimulation model to reconstruct individual’s life courses and their interactions in different regions o...

Since 1738, archaeological sites in the area around Mount Vesuvius have produced large quantities of botanical remains, constituting the Collezione dei Commestibili e degli Avanzi organici (i.e. Collection of Edibles and Organic Remains), currently housed in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. It is considered as one of the most extensive c...

Demographic microsimulation is a computationally-intensive tool used by population scientists to model demographic processes, gain insights into life course transitions and make projections (Zagheni, 2015). In microsimulation models, the sequences of events that each simulated person, characterized by its demographic characteristics such as age, se...

The Annurca type is an historical Italian apple fruit probably native to the Campania region. These fruits are harvested before a full maturity stage and go through an open-field reddening process. Products based on 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) are widely used in postharvest to improve apple quality and avoid disorders in controlled atmosphere. In...

The cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) is characterized by a very ancient history linked to the wide employment for the technological properties of its wood and for its symbolic value. Although this tree was often considered as a species introduced in Italy, the first genetic studies showed, instead, the presence of an autochthonous population of C....

In this study, five allometric models were used to estimate the single leaf area of three well-known medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) species, namely basil (Ocimum basilicum L.), mint (Mentha spp.), and sage (Salvia spp.). MAPs world production is expected to rise up to 5 trillion US$ by 2050 and, therefore, there is a high interest in developi...

There is a current concern that the capacity of urban forests to recover from the effects of climate change may be diminishing. New management options are needed so that they can continue to provide ecosystem services to local communities. After a windstorm occurred on June 2014 pre- and post-disturbance stand conditions (years 2010 and 2015, respe...

The objective of this research is to reconstruct the recent Holocene history of Cupressus sempervirens from the Bronze to the Roman Age in Italy. Our work consisted both in a review of published data and in the identification of novel archaeobotanical remains stored in the deposits of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and of the Archaeol...

Ten different allometric models for estimating leaf area of the primary shoots, lateral shoots and total shoot leaf area of grapevines were developed using data collected from nine different Vitis vinifera L. cultivars. Firstly, the leaf area of main or lateral shoots was estimated according to two allometric models (Lopes and Pinto; Spann and Here...

Forests are part of a complex landscape mosaic and play a crucial role for people living both in rural and urbanized spaces. Recent progresses in modelling and Decision Support System (DSS) applied to the forestry sector promise to improve public participative forest management and decision-making in planning and conservation issues. However, most...

In this research, seven different models to predict leaf area (LA) of loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl) were tested and evaluated. This species was chosen due to the relevant importance of its fruit as an appreciated early summer product and of its leaves and flower as a source of additional income within the nutraceutical and functional food mark...

The rise in air temperature due to climate change is causing an increase in sugar accumulation rate in the grape berries and this is resulting in an increase in wine alcohol concentration. Post-veraison leaf area removal (defoliation, shoot trimming) is a suitable canopy management strategy to slow down carbohydrate accumulation in the berries. How...

La defogliazione può diminuire la compattezza del grappolo, tuttavia in ambienti caldo-aridi come quelli del Sud Italia può indurre anche una diminuzione indesiderata dell’acidità titolabile. È stato quindi impostato uno studio sugli effetti della defogliazione applicata in pre-fioritura in modo asimmetrico alla chioma per verificarne gli effetti s...

This chapter will provide an overview of the key role TOF have played in Mediterranean landscapes over centuries. In particular, it will focus on current distribution trends and dynamics, management challenges and risks in the near future, and policy and governance approaches to foster their sustainable management.

Background: Weed control represents a major issue in plant cultivation in containers. Manual weed control is very expensive and the use of chemical herbicide or plastic mulch films has a large environmental impact. The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of an experimental biodegradable chitosan-based mulching spray in controlling weed growt...

Effetto di diverse intensità di defogliazione asimmetrica in pre-antesi sulla compattezza del grappolo, la produzione e la composizione degli acini del vitigno "Greco"

Plant invasion in forest ecosystems is a serious ecological and economic issue, deserving attention by researchers, managers and policy-makers worldwide. Many invasive plants have been reported as early successional species able to colonize disturbed areas following abrupt changes in microhabitat and resource availability. We investigated disturban...

The application of Monteith's models to estimate the gross primary production (GPP) of forest ecosystems is a common and efficient practice. A modified version of one of these parametric models, C-Fix, has been widely tested in Italy at daily to annual temporal scales. The current paper is a step forward demonstrating the capability of this model t...

FAO, 2016. Abstracts of Submitted Papers prepared for the 25th Session of the International Poplar Commission, jointly hosted by FAO and the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Berlin, Germany, 13-16 September 2016. International Poplar Commission Working Paper IPC/14. Forestry Policy and Resources Division, FAO, Rome. Published at htt...

Il Progetto SINERGIA ("Sistemi Innovativi per la produzione di energia Rinnovabile attraverso la Gestione di Impianti di Arboricoltura a ciclo breve") è stato concepito con lo scopo di collaudare e promuovere presso gli operatori del settore agro-forestale le tecniche più idonee per la gestione di piantagioni arboree a turno breve e documentare le...

Regardless of the fact that urban forests can be considered as urban woods and woodland or as individual trees, their benefits and uses range from indefinable psychological and aesthetic benefits to amelioration of urban climate and mitigation of air pollution and surely they represent the most prominent elements of urban nature. The presence in th...

La biomassa forestale è attualmente la principale fonte di energia rinnovabile, rappresentando circa la metà di quella consumata nell’Unione Europea. Obiettivo per il 2020 è il raggiungimento del 20% di energia da fonti rinnovabili di cui il 42% rappresentato da biomasse. A tale obiettivo possono contribuire le piantagioni arboree da legno a turno...

Precision Farming (PF) Systems can become a win-win approach to guarantee sustainable production of food and energy. As remarked by a recent report of the European Commission, PF can potentially guarantee a high level of production while improving the protection of natural resources. Indeed spatial and temporal variability associated with all aspec...

Precision Farming (PF) Systems can become a win-win approach to guarantee sustainable production of food and energy. As remarked by a recent report of the European Commission, PF can potentially guarantee a high level of production while improving the protection of natural resources. Indeed spatial and temporal variability associated with all aspec...

Poplars (Populus spp.) are widely used in short rotation forestry (SRF) where plantations are characterized by high stool and shoot density. At the end of the first rotation coppice (2010-2012), one native P. nigra provenance from southern Italy (“Ripiti” stream, Campania region) and one selected hybrid P. xgenerosa “Hoogvorst” clone were examined...

Poplars (Populus spp.) are widely used in short rotation forestry (SRF) where plantations are characterized by high stool and shoot density. At the end of the first rotation coppice (2010-2012), one native P. nigra provenance from southern Italy (“Ripiti” stream, Campania region) and one selected hybrid P. xgenerosa “Hoogvorst” clone were examined...

La rendicontazione dello stock di carbonio di un bosco e la stima temporale delle sue variazioni rappresenta una nuova occasione professionale per chi opera nel settore forestale. La mancanza di dati inventariali a scala locale (aziendale), la loro disomogeneità e l’eterogeneità strutturale degli ecosistemi forestali mediterranei può rende inaccura...

Nell’ambito del progetto LIFE SOILCONS-WEB è stato effettuato un volo di scansione laser (LiDAR) da aereo nella primavera del 2011 riguardante la valle Telesina (Italia meridionale, provincia di Benevento), area di studio del progetto. Il complesso mosaico degli usi del suolo è stato cartografato mediante foto interpretazione di ortofoto (anno 2004...

In this study, we assess the possibility of using ground penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) as indirect non-destructive techniques for root detection. Two experimental sites were investigated: a poplar plantation [mean height of plants 25.7 m, diameter at breast height (dbh) 33 cm] and a pinewood forest mainly compo...

The objectives of this research were to investigate the suitability of advanced technologies like 3D-Laser scanning to acquire fair and sound information on structural and architectural characteristics of poplar stand, and to map topology of above-ground tree structures. The study area was an intensive poplar plantation located ~10 km north-west of...

The "Allometric, Biomass and Carbon factors" database (ABC factors database) was designed to facilitate the estimation of the biomass carbon stocks of forests in order to support the development and the verification of greenhouse gas inventories in the LULUCF sector (Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry). The database contains several types of ex...

Considering the high value of pinewood forest in Tuscany for the reforestation of coastal sands it is extremely important to improve the knowledge on the ecology of these ecosystems, especially in these area where difficult environmental conditions joined with damages of the canopies (marine aerosol) could debilitate the trees, rendering them more...

Our research aims at analysing growth conditions of the stand and develops early warning indicators. On 2003, 32 plots were positioned in a regular grid and ancillary data were collected during 2003 (water table depth and salinity, salinity and total organic carbon of soil samples, ring-width from tree’s wood-cores, needles length of umbrella pine)...

A recent letter published in Nature (Kurz et al. 2008a) reports an outbreak of mountain pine beetles in British Columbia, destroying millions of trees; according to the authors, by 2020, the beetles will have done so much damage that the forest is expected to release more carbon dioxide than it absorbs. All those natural disturbances could overwhel...

This paper reports 3 years of eddy covariance measurements (2002–2004) on a poplar plantation (Populus × canadensis Moench, Clone I-214) in Northern Italy. We analyzed seasonal and interannual variability of the net ecosystem exchange (NEE), gross primary production (GPP), ecosystem respiration (RECO) and evapotranspiration (ET) in relation to diff...

The IES-Action GHG-AFOLU aimed at quantifying the effect of land-use changes on the overall cycles of greenhouse gases. A major uncertainty for budget estimates is related to the amount of biomass accumulated in above and belowground parts of the forests. In order to make a reliable estimate of these factors, it is necessary an enormous amount of m...

The IES-Action GHG-AFOLU aimed at quantifying the effect of land-use changes on the overall cycles of greenhouse gases. A major uncertainty for budget estimates is related to the amount of biomass accumulated in above and belowground parts of the forests. In order to make a reliable estimate of these factors, it is necessary an enormous amount of m...

The Kyoto Protocol requires countries to account for the carbon emissions and removals caused by verifiable human-induced land-use changes and allows accounting for emissions and removals from forestry and other land use-related activities that have taken place since 1990. Generally, carbon stocks and their changes of the biomass pool can be estima...

Il Parco Regionale della Maremma nel 2005 ha festeggiato il trentesimo anno dalla sua istituzione. Perchè proprio in questo luogo è stato istituito un parco naturale? Quali ricchezze conserva? Questo libro vuole aiutare il pubblico a godere in modo consapevole dei tesori del Parco. Raccoglie i risultati di ricerche scientifiche diverse, che sono st...

The UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol requires the Parties to report regularly inventories of greenhouse gas (GHG) anthropogenic emissions and removals. In this context, the AFOLU sector (Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses; following the 2006 IPCC Guidelines, this sector will consolidate the previous LULUCF and AGRICULTURE sectors) is considered...

The interactions between environmental conditions, particularly precipitation and water table salinity and tree water use were studied at the pinewood of Alberese, a stand of umbrella pine (Pinus pinea L.) trees growing along the Southern coastline of Tuscany and characterised by a sandy soil and a high water table level (ranging between 1 and 2 m...

The interactions between environmental conditions (particularly precipitation and water table salinity) and tree (Pinus pinea L.) water use were studied at the pinewood of Alberese (Grosseto), a forest stand growing along the southern coastline of Tuscany and characterised by a sandy soil and a high water table level (ranging between 1.0 and 2 m de...

Deciduous dry Dipterocarp forests (DDF) in Thailand are severely degraded by historical and present effects of anthropogenic disturbances. The European Union funded a research project on “Ecology and sustainable semi-natural silvicultural management of indigenous forest of Central South East Asia” with the final aim of sustainable forest management...

At present degraded dry forest ecosystems comprise approximately two thirds of the total forest area of Thailand, growing in a strongly seasonal climate that predominates over most of the country (Rundel & Boonpragob, 1995). Dry dipterocarp forest, the major forest type of such ecoosystems, is a relatively low and open forest vegetation dominated b...

Background paper at the IPCC Expert Meeting to consider the current IPCC guidance on estimating emissions and removals of greenhouse gases from land uses such as agriculture and forestry

"A recent letter published in Nature (Kurz et al. 2008a) reports an outbreak of mountain pine beetles in British Columbia, destroying millions of trees; according to the authors, by 2020, the beetles will have done so much damage that the forest is expected to release more carbon dioxide than it absorbs. All those natural disturbances could overwhe...