Ερευνητικές δημοσιεύσεις, εκδόσεις, πρακτικά συνεδρίων

Στην ενότητα αυτή καταχωρούνται ερευνητικές δημοσιεύσεις, βιβλία, πρακτικά συνεδρίων, ιστορικά βιβλία σχετικά με τα δάση, παλαιότερες κατευθυντήριες οδηγίες κ.λπ.

Αν γνωρίζετε δημοσιεύσεις, εκδόσεις, πρακτικά συνεδρίων κ.λπ. που αφορούν στα θεματικά πεδία της ΔΠΣΔ, μπορείτε να υποβάλλετε πρόταση καταχώρησης, μέσω της σχετικής ηλεκτρονικής φόρμας. Αν υπάρχει τυποποιημένη μορφή βιβλιογραφικής αναφοράς του τεκμηρίου, είναι σκόπιμο αυτή να προστεθεί στην περιγραφή. Απαραίτητη προϋπόθεση για την υποβολή πρότασης καταχώρησης είναι η εγγραφή στη Διαδικτυακή Πύλη. Οι προτάσεις καταχώρησης αξιολογούνται σύμφωνα με τη Διαδικασία Καταχώρησης Εγγραφών της Πύλης.

Special Section: Conserving Nature’s Stage

The papers in this special section address the use of geodiversity as a coarse filter strategy for conserving biodiversity. A coarse filter strategy conserves representative samples of broadly defined environments as a way to conserve most species. However, geodiversity first entered conservation planning for its own sake, not for its ability to support biodiversity. For example, the first national park in the world (Yellowstone [established 1872]), the second national park in the US (Yosemite [1890]), Canada’s first national park (Banff [1885]), and New Zealand’s first national park (Tongariro [1887]) were each set aside primarily to protect spectacular geophysical features and their associated recreational and cultural values. This history helps explain why some protected area networks do a better job of protecting rocks than biodiversity (Scott et al. 2001). Although ecologists have long recognized geodiversity as a key driver of biodiversity and species distribution patterns (Lawler et al. 2015), conservation biologists were slow to consider using geodiversity to prioritize areas for biological conservation. 

Genetic resources and forestry in the Mediterranean region in relation to global change

The purpose of this review is to examine a few aspects of global change effects on forest genetic resources and their interaction. Genetic resources can provide many opportunities for the development of adaptive forest management in the Mediterranean region. At the same time, forestry and its various disciplines can offer manifold chances to develop methods and techniques for the in situ and ex situ protection, as well as for the correct management of species and populations at risk because of climate change. Among these aspects, the studies on the Marker Assisted Selection are particularly taken into consideration, as well as the phenotypic plasticity and the different types of assisted migration. A special emphasis is given to genetic resources growing at marginal peripheral populations, which need to be safeguarded as possible containers of adaptive diversity. They are subjected, in fact, to an extreme climatic stress more than others.