Vigil’Encre: a citizen science project dedicated to the chestnut ink disease
The mobile app Vigil’Encre enables citizens to detect the chestnut ink disease (CID) – the most damaging disease for chestnut trees. Vigil’Encre applies a new
Theme: Knowledge transfer & communication
Threats and concerns in the management of stone pine in Portugal: insights from a survey among stakeholders
The forest area of stone pine, Pinus pinea, has increased significantly in Portugal in the last 30 years, following the same trend of other Mediterranean
Silvo-pastoral systems in southern Portugal: management challenges from the owner’s perspective
Silvo-pastoral systems are quite common in the Alentejo region of south Portugal. Bringing together economic profitability and ecological sustainability is challenging and requires a conscientiousmanagement.We
Biocastanea – Leading International Fair on Chestnut
The main objective of Biocastanea is the sustainability of chestnut orchards as a natural, cultural, economic and landscape element, through the transfer of technical and
APFC Annual Press Release on Pine Cone Quality
In order to contribute to greater market transparency, APFC – Associação de Produtores Florestais, conducts an impartial sampling and issues since 2015 a press release
A methodology for optimizing Pinus pinea stands from an economic perspective.
The aim is to present a methodology that allows the optimal management of Pinus pinea stands to be determined from an economic perspective when both
The association “Gemme la forêt d’Aquitaine”
The association “Gemme la forêt d’Aquitaine” was founded on 7 March 2014. Its aim is to revive resin extraction in the Landes de Gascogne forest.
SustForest Resin Lab: A network of experimental and monitoring plots of the resin resource
Researchers and forest managers interested in the study of the resin resource have difficulties in locating and accessing experimental data generated in previous projects. This circumstance
Analysis and management of main ecosystem services and multi-functionality of Sardinian cork oak woods
The work analyses the multifunctionality of cork oak forests and the benefits in terms of ecosystem services (CICES 2018, MAES 2017) in Sardinia. Supply, regulation
Micophilia in modern Greece. The case of mushroom associations
Greece was until recently considered as a country where mushroom consumption was limited to few species per region. Mushroom were for most Greeks an occasional
What are the pros and cons of bred and commercial varieties versus local ecotypes?
With the aim of knowing the quality and geographical distribution of some aromatic and medicinal species used at industrial level of the Spanish autochthonous flora,
Grevena, the town of mushrooms
Over the last 20 years, an unprecedented phenomenon of micophilia is recorded in Greece, accompanied by remarkable social, economic, cultural and research activity. The focus
