Vincenzo Saponaro

University of Tuscia | Tuscia

The book ‘Monitoring and Predicting Forest Growth and Dynamics’ describes the theoretical background underlying the ‘Three Dimensional — Coupled Model Carbon Cycle — Forest Ecosystem Module’ (3D-CMCC-FEM), developed by Alessio Collalti and his team at the Forest Modelling Laboratory of the National Research Council of Italy. The model is, in our vi...

The consequences of climate change continue to threaten European forests, particularly for species located at the edges of their latitudinal and altitudinal ranges. While extensively studied in Central Europe, European beech forests require further investigation to understand how climate change will affect these ecosystems in Mediterranean areas. P...

Implementation of the natural regeneration dynamics module in the 3D-CMCC-FEM process-based model that drives the development of new saplings from seeds accounting for the environmental variables such as light on the forest floor, temperature, and soil water availability.

Human population activity is causing changes for both climate and forest lands with negative impacts on these ecosystems, increasing disturbances and reducing the ecosystem services they provide. Indeed, forests contribute to mitigate the climate change through the carbon uptake and tree store it in their biomass. Therefore, to preserve these mecha...

Simulazione dell'accoppiamento tra assimilazione del carbonio ed accrescimenti in quattro siti forestali "Eddy-Covariance"

High-throughput and large-scale measurements of chlorophyll a fluorescence (ChlF) are of great interest to investigate the photosynthetic performance of plants in the field. Here, we tested the capability to rapidly, precisely, and simultaneously estimate the number of pulse-amplitude-modulation ChlF parameters commonly calculated from both dark- a...