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Resilience to Climate change in Mediterranean forests (LIFE RESILFORMED)

Description:

The project aim was to preserve forest ecosystems in the face of the risks related to climate changes, by promoting naturalisation processes and biodiversity increase, and by improving the resilience of ecosystems to environmental stress. The specific objective of the project was to implement a regional forest policy to increase the resilience of Sicilian forests and favour biodiversity conservation. To this end, the project produced regional maps identifying the areas of Sicily most at risk from climate change and defined, through indicators, the role of communities and ecosystems in adapting to climate change. Results helped in identifying the Sicilian forests more vulnerable to the desertification where to apply forest managing techniques to increase their resilience. The project also developed forest management models grouped into five Best Management Practices (BMP) considered important for the improvement or reinforcement of the Mediterranean forests resilience to changes. Finally, Guidelines For Assessing The Resilience Of Mediterranean Forests To Climate Change have been produced and are available here

Project information

Lead

Regione Sicilia Assessorato regionale delle risorse agricole e alimentari Dipartimento Azienda regionale foreste demaniali Project Manager: Luciano Saporito Email: lsaporito@regione.sicilia.it; miozzo@dream-italia.it

Partners

D.R.E.Am. Italia soc. coop. Agricolo-Forestale Università degli Studi di Palermo, Dipartimento DEMETRA Regione Siciliana, Assessorato regionale del territorio e dell'ambiente – Comando del Corpo Forestale della Regione Siciliana

Source of funding

LIFE11 ENV/IT/000215

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Published in Climate-ADAPT Jun 07 2016   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12 2023

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