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Final discussion on soil and
sustainable agriculture = ?
sustainable forestry = ?
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On the concepts of Soil and Lithopedon
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QUESTION: Is there a wise way to use the soil?
IUFRO, International Union of Forest Research Organisations
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1. Topsoil classification
JUNE 24th 14h30-16h30
QUESTION: Is there a wise way to use the soil?
1. Topsoil classifiucation
QUESTION: Is there a wise way to use the soil?
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1. Topsoil classification
JUNE 24th 14h30-16h30
QUESTION: Is there a wise way to use the soil?
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During the period of Covid-19, the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecolo... more (in Italian)
During the period of Covid-19, the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology organized a beautiful initiative: every academician could send a short video about the forest to be put online. For students or nature lovers who could listen to it from home.
From On the Origin of Species, Italian version, a section on forest renewal. Darwin explains how cattle grazing can have an enormous influence on the future of the forest. With observations and numbers, counting the young pines under the moor. No pine renewal on the free moor, much renewal on the fenced moor. 4 views
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should be considered for facing the future? Through a model based on real data, we tried (2019-2021) to bring the CO2 emissions of the island... more Through a model based on real data, we tried (2019-2021) to bring the CO2 emissions of the island of Albarella (Italy, 5 km2) to zero. By putting solar panels everywhere and feeding the population and tourists with vegetarian dishes, weobtained emission values 4 times smaller than the original ones (equivalent to the ones of the 1960). With modern technical means it is NOT possible to do better, because humans need to eat and drink, and to produce this CO2 is emitted, and because considering the entire production cycle, solar panels also emit CO2. 8 views
JUNE 23th 14h30-17h00 SOIL AND CLIMATE WARMING 1 QUESTION1: Extreme research for extreme remedies... more JUNE 23th 14h30-17h00 SOIL AND CLIMATE WARMING 1 QUESTION1: Extreme research for extreme remedies?
JUNE 24th 14h30 -17h00 SOIL AND CLIMATE WARMING 2
QUESTION2: Are humans so unscientific in planet exploitation?
JUNE 25th 10h30 -12h30 and 14h30 – 16.30 SOIL AND CLIMATE WARMING 3
QUESTION3: To continue believing that we will make it 19 views
Glaciations, climate change, main questions for facing the future, solutions.
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At least on a small and economically active and inhabited by humans island, is it possible to hav... more At least on a small and economically active and inhabited by humans island, is it possible to have a zero CO2 balance?
Maybe yes. But the road is long. We have to live with balanced ecosystems.
Presented in Venice, Italy, during the 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and the 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference 5 views
Papers by Augusto Zanella
PLOS Climate, 2024
We attempted to consider Albarella Island as a model for estimating the ability of humans and the... more We attempted to consider Albarella Island as a model for estimating the ability of humans and the capacity of the environment to react to climate change. On its 550 hectares, this island hosts management centers, 2800 private homes, several restaurants and hotels, shops, public and private swimming pools, a golf course, beaches, green areas equipped to satisfy the 2,000 stable inhabitants and more than 110,000 annual tourists. We collected data on the following variables: 1) net carbon storage of the semi-natural ecosystems; 2) diet of humans staying on the island; 3) currently used fossil energy; 4) electricity demand; 5) waste produced; 6) transport. A dynamic simulation model of the island's CO 2 equivalent (CO 2 eq) emissions proposes two scenarios that illustrate how these variables can change over the next 10 years if the management remains that of the present day, or switching to all photovoltaics, proposing new diets to inhabitants and tourists, and planting trees on half of the island's lawns. In the second case, CO 2 eq emissions lowered to 1/4 of the current value, bringing them to the level of 50-60 years ago. Running the Albarella touristic activities with renewed technology and minimum emissions impact in 2032 produces 4.8 kty-1 of CO 2 eq: 14.5% (0.7 kty-1 of CO 2 eq) of these emissions could be stored in the ecosystems of the island, 25% (1.2 kty-1) would be produced by the solar panels construction, functionning and recycling that would furnish all the necessary domestic and industrial energy, and 60.5% (2.9 kty-1) would correspond to the emissions to supply the island's food needs. Theoretically, the technological response works. The implementation of the model on the island is discussed, opening up global perspectives. Maintaining the current level of consumption, with the technical and natural means available today, it is not possible to go below 20% of today's emissions.
Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments, Aug 31, 2005
L'area di studio è localizzata nel Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta (Provincia di Trento). Sono sta... more L'area di studio è localizzata nel Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta (Provincia di Trento). Sono state rilevate, in accordo con un disegno campionario casuale sistematico, 48 aree di saggio, distribuite in due valli diverse, caratterizzate da clima variabile da submediterraneo a subcontinentale. La vegetazione forestale abbraccia un ampio spettro di situazioni ecologiche e compositive. Dalla prevalente diffusione di faggete termofile e orno-ostrieti di contatto, localmente interessate da rimboschimenti di pino silvestre o infiltrazioni di abete rosso e abete bianco di maggiore quota, si transita, negli impluvi o nelle esposizioni fresche, a formazioni di faggio mesofile, o, nelle condizioni più fertili e meno disturbate, alle abetine. Risalendo il versante, fino alle parti più alte e culminali, si incontrano peccete altimontane e subalpine, che, rappresentano il tipo di vegetazione stabile in quella fascia altitudinale. Di questi boschi, che sono caratterizzati anche da diverse situazioni «selvicolturali», si dispone ora di informazioni in merito a diversi indicatori strutturali, oltre a quelli usuali di biometria, tra i quali il rapporto tra soggetti arborei giovani o di alberi di dimensioni notevoli, il rapporto tra i tipi strutturali, oppure di espressioni ecologiche a significato più complesso, come la quantità di necromassa in piedi o al suolo e del livello della sua alterazione, l'abbondanza di specie legnose e la loro copertura, la presenza di alberi habitat, e di alberi con cavità prodotte da picidi, oltre la ricchezza di specie vegetali e la copertura degli strati di vegetazione non arborei e del suolo nudo. Lo studio delle forme di humus che sarà svolto nel corso dell'anno 2005 darà la possibilità di individuare le relazioni esistenti tra queste e gli indicatori misurati ed esposti nel presente articolo.
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L'area di studio è localizzata nel Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta (Provincia di Trento). Sono sta... more L'area di studio è localizzata nel Parco Naturale Adamello-Brenta (Provincia di Trento). Sono state rilevate, in accordo con un disegno campionario casuale sistematico, 48 aree di saggio, distribuite in due valli diverse, caratterizzate da clima variabile da submediterraneo a subcontinentale. La vegetazione forestale abbraccia un ampio spettro di situazioni ecologiche e compositive. Dalla prevalente diffusione di faggete termofile e orno-ostrieti di contatto, localmente interessate da rimboschimenti di pino silvestre o infiltrazioni di abete rosso e abete bianco di maggiore quota, si transita, negli impluvi o nelle esposizioni fresche, a formazioni di faggio mesofile, o, nelle condizioni più fertili e meno disturbate, alle abetine. Risalendo il versante, fino alle parti più alte e culminali, si incontrano peccete altimontane e subalpine, che, rappresentano il tipo di vegetazione stabile in quella fascia altitudinale. Di questi boschi, che sono caratterizzati anche da diverse situazioni «selvicolturali», si dispone ora di informazioni in merito a diversi indicatori strutturali, oltre a quelli usuali di biometria, tra i quali il rapporto tra soggetti arborei giovani o di alberi di dimensioni notevoli, il rapporto tra i tipi strutturali, oppure di espressioni ecologiche a significato più complesso, come la quantità di necromassa in piedi o al suolo e del livello della sua alterazione, l'abbondanza di specie legnose e la loro copertura, la presenza di alberi habitat, e di alberi con cavità prodotte da picidi, oltre la ricchezza di specie vegetali e la copertura degli strati di vegetazione non arborei e del suolo nudo. Lo studio delle forme di humus che sarà svolto nel corso dell'anno 2005 darà la possibilità di individuare le relazioni esistenti tra queste e gli indicatori misurati ed esposti nel presente articolo.
Environmental Pollution, Feb 1, 2010
Copper, a priority substance on the EU-Water Framework Directive list, is widely used to protect ... more Copper, a priority substance on the EU-Water Framework Directive list, is widely used to protect grapevines against fungus diseases. Many vineyards being located on steep slopes, large amounts of Cu could be discharged in downstream systems by runoff water. The efficiency of stormwater detention basins to retain copper in a vineyard catchment was estimated. Suspended solids, dissolved (Cu diss) and total Cu (Cu tot) concentrations were monitored in runoff water, upstream, into and downstream from a detention pond. Mean Cu tot concentrations in entering water was 53.6 mg/L whereas it never exceeded 2.4 mg/L in seepage. Cu tot concentrations in basin water (>100 mg/L in 24% of the samples) exceeded LC 50 values for several aquatic animals. Copper was principally sequestered by reduced compounds in the basin sediments (2/3 of Cu tot). Metal sequestration was reversible since sediment resuspension resulted in Cu remobilization. Wind velocity controlled resuspension, explained 70% of Cu diss variability and could help predicting Cu mobilization.
Humus forms: visible field characters of main biogeochemical topsoil interacting systems
Forest@, Feb 28, 2023
Forest soil is a living and important part of the forest. It is essential for the development and... more Forest soil is a living and important part of the forest. It is essential for the development and reproduction of plants and for the evolution of the entire ecosystem. Proper management of the forest must also take into account the vitality and biodiversity of the soil. Due to an erroneous and non-biological conception of soil, and consequent difficulty in linking the physical aspect to the biological functioning of this complex ecosystem, the official soil classification of the last 30 years has abandoned the original link with climate, vegetation and the ecology of the environment in which soil evolves and coexists. In recent years the soil profile was divided into three sections (Humipedon, Copedon and Lithopedon), and it was then possible to link the first and most biological section of the soil to the characteristics of the environment and to its genesis. In particular, it is now possible to distinguish organic horizons generated essentially by arthropods and enchytraeids in cold and acidic or dry and arid environments, from organo-mineral horizons created by earthworms in more temperate and mesotrophic situations. Each set of horizons can be assigned to a system or form of humus, with important implications for forestry. For example, earthworms are more present in the early and late stages of sylvogenesis; by completely recycling the litter, they accelerate the provision of the organic and inorganic nutrients of the soil to the roots and the pedofauna. In general, it is now possible to associate a humus system with a given environment, with a spatial and temporal scale suitable for forest management. This paper promotes a more in-depth knowledge of the soil, to encourage foresters to take care of even half of the forest under their boots.
I suoli del Parco Nazionale Dolomiti Bellunesi. Parte seconda (profili 11-20)
I suoli del Parco Nazionale Dolomiti Bellunesi. Parte prima (profili 1-10)
Applied sciences, Jan 20, 2021
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Forest@ - Rivista di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale
Forest soil is a living and important part of the forest. It is essential for the development and... more Forest soil is a living and important part of the forest. It is essential for the development and reproduction of plants and for the evolution of the entire ecosystem. Proper management of the forest must also take into account the vitality and biodiversity of the soil. Due to an erroneous and non-biological conception of soil, and consequent difficulty in linking the physical aspect to the biological functioning of this complex ecosystem, the official soil classification of the last 30 years has abandoned the original link with climate, vegetation and the ecology of the environment in which soil evolves and coexists. In recent years the soil profile was divided into three sections (Humipedon, Copedon and Lithopedon), and it was then possible to link the first and most biological section of the soil to the characteristics of the environment and to its genesis. In particular, it is now possible to distinguish organic horizons generated essentially by arthropods and enchytraeids in cold and acidic or dry and arid environments, from organo-mineral horizons created by earthworms in more temperate and mesotrophic situations. Each set of horizons can be assigned to a system or form of humus, with important implications for forestry. For example, earthworms are more present in the early and late stages of sylvogenesis; by completely recycling the litter, they accelerate the provision of the organic and inorganic nutrients of the soil to the roots and the pedofauna. In general, it is now possible to associate a humus system with a given environment, with a spatial and temporal scale suitable for forest management. This paper promotes a more in-depth knowledge of the soil, to encourage foresters to take care of even half of the forest under their boots.
Forest@ - Rivista di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale
Vegetation, soil, DNA and natural evolution Dialogue with Sandro Pignatti on natural evolution, c... more Vegetation, soil, DNA and natural evolution Dialogue with Sandro Pignatti on natural evolution, considering the soil as a living matrix in which the recycling of organic matter and DNA takes place. How vegetation interacts with the soil and how it is not the species that evolve but the ecosystem that contains them. The hypothesis of a still poorly understood genetic exchange in relation to the biodegradation process is raised. Recent research in soil microbiology and biodiversity highlights a functional and primordial collaboration between living beings in the exploitation of natural resources.
Che cos’è la biodiversità (fuori e dentro al suolo)?What is biodiversity (even in the soil)?
Cartografia Floristica del Nord Italia: Stato dell'Arte, 2021
An improved classification of the humus systems linking concepts and field practice
An overview of a novel, extended classification of humus forms, with explanation of basic concept... more An overview of a novel, extended classification of humus forms, with explanation of basic concepts and numerous examples taken from the fields of sylviculture and agriculture.
HUMUSICA: towards a unified classification of humus systems
More than 30 international scientists are working to a new morpho-functional classification of th... more More than 30 international scientists are working to a new morpho-functional classification of the planet topsoils = epipedons. A field manual titled HUMUSICA is in preparation. Information on the contents of the book and preceding publications of the group are downloadable at: http://intra.tesaf.unipd.it/people/zanella/hgroup.html.
Api e apicoltura, un binomio inscindibile
Il contributo dei funghi alla trasformazione delle lettiere in una pecceta altimontana del Trentino
In recent years, three sections (Humipedon, Copedon and Lithopedon) were recognized in the soil p... more In recent years, three sections (Humipedon, Copedon and Lithopedon) were recognized in the soil profile. It was then possible to link the first and most biologically active section to the characteristics of the environment and soil genesis. In particular, it is now possible to distinguish organic horizons, mainly produced by arthropods and enchytraeids in cold and acidic or dry and arid environments, from organo-mineral horizons produced by earthworms in more temperate and mesotrophic environments. Each set of horizons can be associated with a humus system or form, with important implications for forestry. Anecic/endogeic earthworms and Mull or Amphi systems are more abundant in the early and late stages of sylvogenesis; by completely recycling litter, earthworms accelerate the availability of organic and inorganic soil nutrients to roots and pedofauna. On the other hand, arthropods and Moder or Tangel systems characterize the intermediate stages of sylvogenesis, where thickening in the organic horizons and the parallel impoverishment/reduction in the underlying organo-mineral horizons are observed. Recognizing the humus system at the right spatial and temporal scale is crucial for the biological management of a forest. This article includes a data review, new data from a doctoral thesis, and recent comparisons of Italian and French investigations.
International Journal of Plant Biology, 2023
In recent years, three sections (Humipedon, Copedon and Lithopedon) were recognized in the soil p... more In recent years, three sections (Humipedon, Copedon and Lithopedon) were recognized in the soil profile. It was then possible to link the first and most biologically active section to the characteristics of the environment and soil genesis. In particular, it is now possible to distinguish organic horizons, mainly produced by arthropods and enchytraeids in cold and acidic or dry and arid environments, from organo-mineral horizons produced by earthworms in more temperate and mesotrophic environments. Each set of horizons can be associated with a humus system or form, with important implications for forestry. Anecic/endogeic earthworms and Mull or Amphi systems are more abundant in the early and late stages of sylvogenesis; by completely recycling litter, earthworms accelerate the availability of organic and inorganic soil nutrients to roots and pedofauna. On the other hand, arthropods and Moder or Tangel systems characterize the intermediate stages of sylvogenesis, where thickening in the organic horizons and the parallel impoverishment/reduction in the underlying organo-mineral horizons are observed. Recognizing the humus system at the right spatial and temporal scale is crucial for the biological management of a forest. This article includes a data review, new data from a doctoral thesis, and recent comparisons of Italian and French investigations.
Dinamica del riciclo della sostanza organica morta e forme di humus
Applied Soil Ecology, 2018
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2.2. Soil and vegetation
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should be considered for facing the future?
2. 1. Soil and biodiversity
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2. 1. Soil and biodiversity
QUESTION: Is soil biodiversity really that important?
2. 1. Soil and biodiversity
QUESTION: Is soil biodiversity really that important?
2.2. Soil and vegetation
QUESTION: Are there practical research outcomes that
should be considered for facing the future?
During the period of Covid-19, the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology organized a beautiful initiative: every academician could send a short video about the forest to be put online. For students or nature lovers who could listen to it from home.
From On the Origin of Species, Italian version, a section on forest renewal. Darwin explains how cattle grazing can have an enormous influence on the future of the forest. With observations and numbers, counting the young pines under the moor. No pine renewal on the free moor, much renewal on the fenced moor.
2. 1. Soil and biodiversity
QUESTION: Is soil biodiversity really that important?
2. 1. Soil and biodiversity
QUESTION: Is soil biodiversity really that important?
2. 1. Soil and biodiversity
QUESTION: Is soil biodiversity really that important?
2. 1. Soil and biodiversity
QUESTION: Is soil biodiversity really that important?
2.2. Soil and vegetation
QUESTION: Are there practical research outcomes that
should be considered for facing the future?
2.2. Soil and vegetation
QUESTION: Are there practical research outcomes that
should be considered for facing the future?
2.2. Soil and vegetation
QUESTION: Are there practical research outcomes that
should be considered for facing the future?
2.2. Soil and vegetation
QUESTION: Are there practical research outcomes that
should be considered for facing the future?
JUNE 24th 14h30 -17h00 SOIL AND CLIMATE WARMING 2
QUESTION2: Are humans so unscientific in planet exploitation?
JUNE 25th 10h30 -12h30 and 14h30 – 16.30 SOIL AND CLIMATE WARMING 3
QUESTION3: To continue believing that we will make it
Maybe yes. But the road is long. We have to live with balanced ecosystems.
Presented in Venice, Italy, during the 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and the 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference
Papers by Augusto Zanella