Drought is a source of stress that affects forest growth, resulting in financial losses for forest owners and amenity losses for society. Due to climate change, such natural events will be more frequent and intense in the future. In this context, the objective of this paper is to compare, from an...

In the last decades, the chestnut production has decreased in Italy due to diseases such as chestnut blight and chestnut gall wasp, and progressive depopulation of mountainous areas. The aim of the paper is to analyse the role of social network to enhance the dissemination of new ideas and...

Exotic pathogens, within the center of genetic diversity for the species, compromise European chestnut populations in Turkey. In Turkey today, the species is of tremendous economic, ecological and cultural importance. At this time of severe exotic pathogenic pressure on a highly-valued forest...

In 2004, ecological forest compensation system was started in Zhejiang province with standard of 120 Yuan RMB/ha/year. By the end of 2019, there were 2,883 thousand hectares of ecological forest compensated with standard of 465 Yuan RMB/ha/year. But there had been challenges such as responsibility...

The EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of Platypus apicalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae), an ambrosia beetle, also known as a pinhole borer, for the EU territory. P. apicalis is a polyphagous pest native to New Zealand. The majority of its life cycle is spent...

The recent evolution of ink-related chestnut dieback has led INRA and DSF to analyse the causes and effects of this disease. This paper describes some forests that remain favourable for economic timber production and silvicultural recommendations.

Context: Making the shift to renewable energy sources requires increasing biomass removal from the forest in a sustainable way. Today, the most common practice for forest biomass extraction is whole-tree harvesting rather than conventional harvest in which only stems are harvested or sometimes...

Ecological compensation plays an important role in promoting ecological protection. Identifying factors affecting the willingness of farmers to accept eco-compensation has become a focus of ecological economics. The Qianxi traditional chestnut agricultural heritage system is a typical agroforestry...

Aim of the study: To identify the priority strategy for the strengthening of the chestnut supply chain through a participatory approach. Area of study: Mugello-Val di Sieve in Tuscany region (Italy). Material and methods: The data were collected by administering a questionnaire to a sample of 126...

American chestnut (Castanea dentata) once held great economic and ecological importance in eastern US forests before its demise due to an invasive blight fungus. Backcross breeding and genetic engineering methods are currently developing a blight-resistant tree with mostly American chestnut traits. ...