Assessment of Grasslands Improvements for Faunistic Purposes in a Mountain Area of Central Italy

Argenti, Giovanni; Messeri, Alessandro; Ponzetta, Maria Paola

doi:10.12911/22998993/157521

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Assessment of Grasslands Improvements for Faunistic Purposes in a Mountain Area of Central Italy

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Argenti Giovanni , Messeri Alessandro , Ponzetta Maria Paola

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10.12911/22998993/157521

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Restoration of grassland habitats useful for wildlife is an intervention often carried out in various marginal environments (such as some mountainous areas) where agriculture and grassland management have undergone deep changes in recent decades. To assess some of these interventions, a study was conducted in an Apennine reserve in Central Italy, where some grassland areas recovered through different techniques were identified, represented by shrub clearing followed by sowing of a forage mixture and shrub clearing alone, which were compared with natural areas on which no interventions were carried out. Several parameters related to the botanical composition and quality of the recovered pastoral resources were analysed. In addition, in three different experimental sites, further in-depth investigations were carried out to assess the actual animal frequentation and the impact of the in-take of the wild animals present (mainly red deer) on the occurring vegetation. Results highlighted the importance of recovery interventions in these situations, the success of mechanical treatments (even if represented by clearing shrubs alone), and the real appreciation for the recovered areas by wildlife, whose utilisation on different vegetal species could be assessed, highlighting a diverse feeding behaviour for some taxa, compared to domestic animals.

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pasture restoration biodiversity fern wild ungulates defoliation rate pastoral value

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Polskie Towarzystwo Inżynierii Ekologicznej
Lublin University of Technology

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Journal of Ecological Engineering

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2023

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Vol. 24, nr 3

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366--377

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Bibliogr. 54 poz., rys., tab.

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Argenti Giovanni

giovanni.argenti@unifi.it

DAGRI, University of Florence, Piazzale delle Cascine 18, 50144, Firenze, Italy

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8130-0253

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Messeri Alessandro

Consorzio LaMMA, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

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Ponzetta Maria Paola

DAGRI, University of Florence, Piazzale delle Cascine 18, 50144, Firenze, Italy

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Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MEiN, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2022-2023).

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