Worrying about ‘Vertical Landscapes’: Terraced Olive Groves and Ecosystem Services in Marginal Land in Central Italy

Ecosystem mapping for the implementation of the European Biodiversity Strategy at the national level: The case of Italy

(2017) Carlo Blasi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Response of Terraced Slopes to a Very Intense Rainfall Event and Relationships with Land Abandonment: A Case Study from Cinque Terre (Italy)

(2017) Pierluigi Brandolini et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Abandonment of Traditional Terraced Landscape: A Change Detection Approach (A Case Study in Costa Viola - Calabria, Italy)

(2017) Giuseppe Modica et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Relationship between man-made environment and slope stability: the case of 2014 rainfall events in the terraced landscape of the Liguria region (northwestern Italy)

(2017) D. Giordan et al.   Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk

Where Land Use Changes Occur: Using Soil Features to Understand the Economic Trends in Agricultural Lands

(2017) Rosa Rivieccio et al.   Sustainability

Modeling aesthetics to support an ecosystem services approach for natural resource management decision making

(2017) Pieter N Booth et al.   Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Sustainable viticulture: The carbon-sink function of the vineyard agro-ecosystem

(2016) Elena Brunori et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Towards sustainable rural landscapes? a multivariate analysis of the structure of traditional tree cropping systems along a human pressure gradient in a mediterranean region

(2016) Rita Biasi et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

Land degradation and long-term changes in agro-pastoral systems: An empirical analysis of ecological resilience in Asteroussia - Crete (Greece)

(2016) Costas Kosmas et al.   CATENA

In-between forest expansion and cropland decline: A revised USLE model for soil erosion risk under land-use change in a Mediterranean region

(2016) Giuseppe Mancino et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Linking trajectories of land change, land degradation processes and ecosystem services

(2016) D. Smiraglia et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Multi-temporal land use and cover changing analysis: the environmental impact in Mediterranean area

(2016) Elena Brunori et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY

Linking traditional tree-crop landscapes and agro-biodiversity in central Italy using a database of typical and traditional products: a multiple risk assessment through a data mining analysis

(2015) Rita Biasi et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Effects of farming terraces on hydrological and geomorphological processes. A review

(2015) J. Arnáez et al.   CATENA

Modeling the stability of terraced slopes: an approach from Valtellina (Northern Italy)

(2015) Corrado Camera et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

In-between sprawl and fires: long-term forest expansion and settlement dynamics at the wildland–urban interface in Rome, Italy

(2015) Rita Biasi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY

Chemical stabilization of organic carbon in agricultural soils in a semi-arid region (SE Spain)

(2015) M. SIERRA et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

Unravelling landslide risk: soil susceptibility, agro-forest systems and the socio-economic profile of rural communities in Italy

(2015) C. Ferrara et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Runoff and sediment yield of tilled and spontaneous grass-covered olive groves grown on sloping land

(2015) A. M. Palese et al.   Soil Research

Territorial Analysis of the Agricultural Terraced Landscapes of Tuscany (Italy): Preliminary Results

(2015) Mauro Agnoletti et al.   Sustainability

Unraveling the ‘stable’ landscape: a multi-factor analysis of unchanged agricultural and forest land (1987–2007) in a rapidly-expanding urban region

(2015) Agostino Ferrara et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Chemical stabilization of organic carbon in agricultural soils in a semi-arid region (SE Spain)

(2015) M. SIERRA et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

Recent artificial vineyard terraces as a refuge for rare and endangered spiders in a modern agricultural landscape

(2014) Ondřej Košulič et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

A new landscape metric for the identification of terraced sites: The Slope Local Length of Auto-Correlation (SLLAC)

(2014) Giulia Sofia et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Classification and mapping of the ecoregions of Italy

(2014) C. Blasi et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Soil resources, land cover changes and rural areas: Towards a spatial mismatch?

(2014) Agostino Ferrara et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Investigating syndromes of agricultural land degradation through past trajectories and future scenarios

(2014) Tomaso Ceccarelli et al.   SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION

Combining Environmental Factors and Agriculturalists’ Observations of Environmental Changes in the Traditional Terrace System of the Amalfi Coast (Southern Italy)

(2013) Valentina Savo et al.   AMBIO

The influences of geological and land use settings on shallow landslides triggered by an intense rainfall event in a coastal terraced environment

(2013) Andrea Cevasco et al.   Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

Effects of maturation and processing technologies on nutritional and sensory qualities of Itrana table olives

(2013) B. Lanza et al.   GRASAS Y ACEITES

Restoration of degraded agricultural terraces: Rebuilding landscape structure and process

(2013) M.C. LaFevor   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Soil enzyme activities, microbial communities, and carbon and nitrogen availability in organic agroecosystems across an intensively-managed agricultural landscape

(2013) Timothy M. Bowles et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Estimating soil sealing rate at national level—Italy as a case study

(2012) Michele Munafò et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Natural forest expansion into suburban countryside: Gained ground for a green infrastructure?

(2012) Anna Barbati et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

The economic and environmental performances of rural districts in Italy: Are competitiveness and sustainability compatible targets?

(2011) Luca Salvati et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Olive agroforestry systems in Sicily: Cultivated typologies and secondary succession processes after abandonment

(2011) J. Rühl et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Properties, best management practices and conservation of terraced soils in Southern Europe (from Mediterranean areas to the Alps): A review

(2011) S. Stanchi et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Mapping traditional cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean area using a combined multidisciplinary approach: Method and application to Mount Etna (Sicily; Italy)

(2010) Sebastiano Cullotta et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Erosion and terrace failure due to agricultural land abandonment in a semi-arid environment

(2008) J. P. Lesschen et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Suitability of enzyme activities for the monitoring of soil quality improvement in organic agricultural systems

(2008) Roberto García-Ruiz et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Traditional olive orchards on sloping land: Sustainability or abandonment?

(2007) Filomena Duarte et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT