The soil-conscious forestry and the forbidden apple

doi:10.3832/ifor4584-017

The soil-conscious forestry and the forbidden apple

Augusto Zanella⁽¹⁾ , Nicolas Bernier⁽²⁾, Roberto Zampedri⁽³⁾, Silvia Fusaro⁽⁴⁾, Giacomo Mei⁽⁵⁾, Jean André⁽⁶⁾, Jean-François Ponge⁽²⁾, Raffaello Giannini⁽⁷⁾

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 252-268 (2024)
doi: https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor4584-017
Published: Aug 16, 2024 - Copyright © 2024 SISEF

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In this article, we propose a silvicultural approach that takes soil health into account. Using a biblical metaphor, the first chapter highlights the forest’s critical role in the planet’s future, emphasizing that forest biodiversity is essential for sustaining a planet inhabited by complex life forms like humans. The second chapter focuses to the soil, explaining how the biological dynamics of the soil are interconnected with the forest cycle, demonstrating that vegetation and soil form a continuous, co-evolving system. The third chapter explores the possibility of extending the forest cycle to restore soil functionality, illustrating how the recycling of the forest’s biological past facilitates the emergence of a new, evolving soil-vegetation system. Examples of forest management practices in France, Italy, and Switzerland are presented, including graphs and mathematical models depicting the evolution of organic carbon in the soil and the distribution of tree stems by diameter, age, and stature. The description of uneven-aged Swiss forests, featuring fir and beech, is sourced from the Helvetica Pro-Silva website.

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Anthropocene, Adam and Eve, Forest Soil, Humus, Soil-conscious Forestry, Envers Forest, Forest Dynamic, Old-growth Forest

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0000-0001-7066-779x
Dipartimento TESAF, Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy)

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0000-0001-7340-8646
0000-0001-6504-5267
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France)

(3)

0000-0002-6042-5866
Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Trento (Italy)

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0000-0001-8966-8485
Dipartimento DAFNAE, Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy)

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0000-0002-5576-1929
Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)

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Université Savoie-Mont-Blanc, Chambéry (France)

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0000-0001-7029-7944
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Ambientali Forestali, Università di Firenze (Italy)

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Augusto Zanella
augusto.zanella@unipd.it

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Zanella A, Bernier N, Zampedri R, Fusaro S, Mei G, André J, Ponge J-F, Giannini R (2024). The soil-conscious forestry and the forbidden apple. iForest 17: 252-268. - doi: 10.3832/ifor4584-017

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Marco Borghetti

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Received: Feb 07, 2024
Accepted: Jun 11, 2024

First online: Aug 16, 2024
Publication Date: Aug 31, 2024
Publication Time: 2.20 months

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