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Country
Italy
Protected areas
Highest peak
Monte Amaro · 2,793 m
Partner team(s)
CNR · UNIMOL
About the site
The central Apennines include two of Italy’s most emblematic protected areas. Maiella National Park culminates at Monte Amaro (2,793 m), the second-highest summit of the Apennines, and is a UNESCO Global Geopark. The Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park, one of the oldest in Italy, is home to the Apennine chamois and the Marsican brown bear.
On these calcareous massifs, snowbeds and high-elevation grasslands host many endemic plants. Karst substrates drain water rapidly, making wet patches especially vulnerable to drought, while grazing by livestock and wild ungulates and summer tourism concentrate on the remaining green areas.
PRESINMED at Apennines
- Lead of WP2 activities with UGR (UNIMOL)
- Herbivory and tourism impacts and their interaction with drought (T1.1, T1.2, T2.2.2)
- Pasture production and cultural ecosystem-service models (T3.3, T3.4)
- Trade-offs and synergies among NbS (T2.3)
The study plots, the Nature-based Solutions implemented and the local stakeholders involved will be described here as the project progresses.
Location
Tasks with this site’s teams
- T1.1 Impact of herbivory by domestic and wild ungulates under a drought scenario
- T1.2 Impact of tourism pressure under a drought scenario
- T1.3 Spatial and temporal analysis of biodiversity (plants, arthropods and birds)
- T1.4 Quantification of soil respiration
- T1.5 Remote monitoring of ecosystem variables
- T1.6 Identification of essential compositional, structural and functional variables and metrics
- T1.7 Characterisation of reference dynamics, spatial variability, trends and anomalies
- T1.8 Assessing conservation status of endemic and threatened species and habitats
- T2.1 Application of remote-sensing-derived variables and metrics to decision making and management
- T2.2.2 Monitoring plant community responses to water supply, livestock and tourist pressure
- T2.2.4 Active restoration of keystone species
- T2.3 Analysis of trade-offs and synergies between NbS
- T3.1 Stakeholder engagement
- T3.2 Ecohydrological model (WiMMed)
- T3.3 Pasture production model
- T3.4 Cultural ecosystem services model
- T3.5 Local and international collaboration, participation, training and shared governance
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