IntroduzioneSecondo quanto riportato nell'Inventario Nazionale delle Foreste e dei Serbatoi di Carbonio (INFC 2007) la Regione Calabria, a fronte di una superficie territoriale pari a 1.511.000 ettari (Regione Calabria 2016), presenta una superficie forestale di 612.934 ettari e un indice di boscosità pari al 40.6%. Dati che fanno assumere a questa Regione un ruolo di parti- it).Abstract: New silvicultural approaches for sustainable forest management in Calabria (Southern Italy). We propose several guidelines for sustainable forest management of the main regional forest types based on literature review on silviculture and forest management and taking into account the results from surveys carried out in four test sites located in Calabria (Southern Italy) within the framework of ALForLAB project. The four test sites cover 16% of regional forested area, which included ten of the main silvicultural types. Results highlighted a high variability in stand structure of high forests, while coppice woods were characterised by low structural variablity. The different silvicultural treatments proposed for high forests focused on the maintenance of stand structure complexity where it is already high, and to enhance it where the past management options simplified stand structure. The proposed silvicultural treatments for conifer plantations aimed at progressive renaturalisation. In the regional context coppice management, especially simple coppice with standards, still maintains an important role for fuelwood and charcoal production, poles and posts (chestnut coppice) production, and more recently for forest biomass for energy use. Coppice management, with exception for beech stands and stands within protected areas, can still be maintained with the adoption of suitable tending and thinnings interventions and rotation periods. The management guidelines here proposed for both high forests and coppices represent an important tool for sustainable forest management in Calabria. In addition, they can be an useful and complementary tool for spatial decision support system aimed to Precision Forestry issues.

IntroduzioneNegli ultimi decenni il bosco ha assunto un significato e un ruolo sostanzialmente diverso da quello del passato, costituendo un bene ambientale, economico e culturale di rilevante interesse sociale (Ciancio 2003). La multifunzionalità delle foreste, unitamente alle considerazioni sulle nuove dimensioni scientifiche e culturali assunte dai boschi, trovano compiutezza nei principi della Gestione Forestale Sostenibile (MCPFE 1993). Questa si concretizza con la mediazione tra gli interessi produttivi, le necessità ambientali e le esigenze sociali legate al patrimonio, riuscendo contemporaneamente a garantire l'approvvigionamento di materie prime e di prodotti fo- it).Abstract: Sustainable forest management and forest biomass estimates in Calabria (Southern Italy): a case study. Based on LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data, estimates of volume and biomass potentially available from coppice and high forest stands under different silvicultural options were estimated in a case study located in the Pollino National Park (Calabria -Southern Italy) within the framework of the ALForLAB project.Estimates of volume and biomass potentially available were elaborated separately for the main silvicultural types: beech, Calabrian pine and Mediterranean pines high forest stands on one hand, and for traditional coppices, outgrown coppice and coppice in conversion to high forest on the other. The estimates were performed taking into duly account both of the forest regional law and the restrictions due to the protected area (Natural Park). The overall standing volume ranged from 4.8 up to 7.7 M m 3 , while the volume potentially available ranged from 3.7 up to 6 M m 3 . Estimates of mass potentially available under the the adoption of different silvicultural system and options, in a sustainable forest management context, and according to the main stand structure types were analysed and discussed.