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- Title
Indicatori ad ampia scala per il monitoraggio della diversità forestale per le principali formazioni boschive della Calabria.
- Authors
Infusino, Marco; Scalercio, Stefano; Corona, Piermaria; Greco, Silvia; Puletti, Nicola; Chianucci, Francesco
- Abstract
Recently, the Society's perception of forest resources has gone through significant changes. Forest ecosystems play a multifunctional role and host an important portion of the whole biodiversity, particularly in the Mediterranean area. Remote sensing technologies provide a unique way to obtain spatially extensive information on forest ecosystems, but relatively few studies used such information to evaluate forest habitat and biotic diversity. In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of remote sensing to predict forest diversity by linking re - motely sensed information with diversity metrics obtained from ground measurements of butterfly diversity. The field work was carried out in Calabria in four different forest types (beech, chestnut, black pine and silver fir forests). The sampling of Lepidoptera was carried out by LED light traps. We positioned 9 traps per forest type, for a total of 36 sites chosen to sample the different stages of forest succession in each forest type. Samples were carried out once a month from May to November 2015. Data from in situ butterfly measurements were compared with above ground forest biomass estimated from airborne LiDAR with NDVI estimated from Landsat 8. Results indicated that the Geometridae/Noctuideae ratio of lepidopteran communities was significantly correlated with the tree biomass, its distribution among tree size classes and the NDVI. The Geometridae/Noctuidae ratio, therefore, represents an index easy to calculate, which can be employed to integrate data acquired from remote sensing in order to obtain continuous spatial estimates of forest natural - ness.
- Publication
Forest@ - Journal of Silviculture & Forest Ecology, 2017, Vol 14, Issue 5, p84
- ISSN
1824-0119
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3832/efor2293-014