2006
DOI: 10.3832/efor0367-0030275
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Proposal of a simplified method for pastures assessment in forest planning

Abstract: Proposal of a simplified method for pastures assessment in forest planning. Usually scarce attention is devoted to pastoral resources in forest planning activities in Italy. The limited importance often given to these resources, the inadequate skills of forest technicians, as well as the need to reduce the cost of sampling procedures, frequently lead to generic management suggestions to be included in forest plans. The above reasons call for new methods of pasture parameters assessment, combining fast data col… Show more

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“…Thus, the characterization of the sward with the phytosociological “ association ” concept is not always proper, because it characterizes the ecosystems found in the climax evolutional stage [ 51 ]. Secondary grasslands are managed agro-ecosystems, which can be characterized most properly [ 52 ] from a typological point of view [ 3 , 53 ] that covers more complex datasets relating to the vegetation with the stational conditions and with the management [ 54 , 55 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Thus, the characterization of the sward with the phytosociological “ association ” concept is not always proper, because it characterizes the ecosystems found in the climax evolutional stage [ 51 ]. Secondary grasslands are managed agro-ecosystems, which can be characterized most properly [ 52 ] from a typological point of view [ 3 , 53 ] that covers more complex datasets relating to the vegetation with the stational conditions and with the management [ 54 , 55 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The vegetation surveys were conducted with the linear point quadrate method described by Daget-Poissonet [ 87 ]. The considered vegetation features in the present research were the following: floristic composition (grasses, legumes and forbs considered as species number and specific contribution—CS%) [ 3 , 39 , 47 , 48 , 77 , 88 ], biodiversity (as species richness—S, Shannon index—H′ [ 3 , 89 , 90 ] and Simpson index (D) [ 3 , 48 , 91 ]) and pastoral value—VP (0–100 scale) [ 3 , 53 , 87 , 92 ]. The pastoral value characterizes the relative forager value of the grassland sward based on the specific contribution in the grassland cover of the species with the forager value expressed as the Specific Forage Quality Index (SFQi) [ 78 , 87 ].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I dati mostrano una notevole omogeneità di risultati per quanto riguarda il valore pastorale medio di ogni classe di pascolo, indipendentemente dalla zona di riferimento. In particolare i pascoli migliori si aggirano su valori di VP notevoli, intorno a 40, mentre i pascoli di classe 2 e 3 presentano valori medi più ravvicinati, pari a 30 e 26, comunque discreti in quanto indici di VP superiori a 25-30 sono già indicatori di buone condizioni delle risorse pastorali (Argenti et al 2006), segno che il degrado floristico in corso non è ancora ad uno stato avanzato e che quindi la risorsa erbacea non ha subito ancora gli effetti negativi dovuti al sottocarico e al conseguente innesco della ricolonizzazione da parte delle specie arboree ed arbustive. Ovviamente quanto detto si ripete per i carichi animali mantenibili da ogni categoria di pascolo, che sono proporzionali al valore pastorale.…”
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“…Per la pianificazione pastorale a livello territoriale sono stati proposti ulteriori criteri, che fanno riferimento a metodologie di rilievo semplificate della vegetazione (Tothill et al 1992, Argenti et al 2006) o alle potenzialità offerte dalle nuove tecnologie, come GIS e dati telerilevati (Di Bella et al 2004, Boschetti et al 2007, Argenti et al 2011.…”
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“…In order to define the optimal load of grazing animals necessary for the maintenance of each type of seminatural grassland identified, the pastoral value (PV) was calculated. It is expressed by the formula: PV = 0.2 × ΣSPC i × SI i , where SPC i is the specific presence contribution of the i-th species (as a percentage), while SI i is the specific index, ranging from 0 to 5, of the same species [101][102][103][104][105][106][107]. For the SPC, we applied the method based on the "visual estimation" of the degree of coverage, proposed by several authors [108][109][110][111]; for this purpose, we used the cover values detected during the botanical survey.…”
Section: Pastoral Value and Biomass Analysesmentioning
confidence: 99%