Pasture management for conservation of multipurpose plants in Italian mountains
The Garfagnana region comprises some high mountains of the North‐Western Tuscany.Large parts of its territory are marginal due to difficult climate, shallow soils, and steep slopes.Potential for pasture productivity increases is limited and farmers are more interested in added values from the quality of produce rather than increased volume.Moreover, rural people try to raise their incomes by linking agriculture with tourism (Comunità Montana,2001 ).Agro‐tourism is favoured by the beauty of the territory and by maintenance of high biodiversity.From this perspective, some pastures of the area would be better valorised through conservation of plant species with existing multi‐purpose uses in the local tradition and which already contribute to tourism interests, or could have future potential for new industries ( Pardini, 2002 ).Research trials were undertaken to assess the effect of fertilization on biomass and abundance of pasture species.This work has been funded by ARSIA of the Regional Government of Tuscany.
pasture fertilization pasture productivity biodiversity
Pardini A Pratesi V Tallarico R
University of Florence-Piaz zale Cascine,18-50144 Firenze(I)
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）