Forests play an important role in the environment, providing different ecosystem services, such as: biodiversity, climate regulation, regulating water cycle, carbon sink, improving and maintaining soils. Forests are sensitive to changes due to climate or management practices, with possible impacts on human health and well-being, and thus forest managers and policy makers need solid information about the forecasted impact of their different management options in order to make wise decisions. With the aim to understand the response of forest to different silvicultural practices under climate change conditions, the INNOMED project was co-funded under the ERA-NET WaterWorks2015 Call of the European Commission. Within the framework of this project, the FEST-FOREST module has been implemented and included in FEST-WB distributed hydrological model, in order to consider vegetation dynamics interactions with the hydrological response of a watershed. In this paper, the FEST-FOREST module written in FORTRAN-90 programming language is presented. This model is a process based-dynamic model allowing the simulation at daily basis of gross primary production (GPP) and net primary production (NPP) together with the carbon allocation of a homogeneous population of trees (same age, same species). The model has been developed basing on different equations from the literature, commonly used in Eco-hydrological models. The study site is the Bonis catchment located in the mountain area of Sila Greca (39°25'15''N, 16°12'38''W), in the Calabria region (Southern Italy). Almost 93% of the total area of this catchment is covered by forest stand, dominated by about 50-year-old Calabrian pine (Pinus laricio Poiret) forests. Since 1986, the basin was monitored through the installation of different instruments. Runoff was measured at the outlet of the catchment using a gauging structure. These data were used for the calibration and validation of the model before being implemented for future scenarios simulations. The results of these simulations delivered the potential impacts and the vulnerability of the Bonis catchment to different scenarios. These outcomes provided, for the stakeholders, a scientifically based and solid information for a sustainable management of the catchment.
Application of the FEST-FOREST module for the analysis of the vegetation dynamics in the Bonis basin (Calabria region)
Caloiero T;Pellicone G;Ricca N;Veltri A
2022
Abstract
Forests play an important role in the environment, providing different ecosystem services, such as: biodiversity, climate regulation, regulating water cycle, carbon sink, improving and maintaining soils. Forests are sensitive to changes due to climate or management practices, with possible impacts on human health and well-being, and thus forest managers and policy makers need solid information about the forecasted impact of their different management options in order to make wise decisions. With the aim to understand the response of forest to different silvicultural practices under climate change conditions, the INNOMED project was co-funded under the ERA-NET WaterWorks2015 Call of the European Commission. Within the framework of this project, the FEST-FOREST module has been implemented and included in FEST-WB distributed hydrological model, in order to consider vegetation dynamics interactions with the hydrological response of a watershed. In this paper, the FEST-FOREST module written in FORTRAN-90 programming language is presented. This model is a process based-dynamic model allowing the simulation at daily basis of gross primary production (GPP) and net primary production (NPP) together with the carbon allocation of a homogeneous population of trees (same age, same species). The model has been developed basing on different equations from the literature, commonly used in Eco-hydrological models. The study site is the Bonis catchment located in the mountain area of Sila Greca (39°25'15''N, 16°12'38''W), in the Calabria region (Southern Italy). Almost 93% of the total area of this catchment is covered by forest stand, dominated by about 50-year-old Calabrian pine (Pinus laricio Poiret) forests. Since 1986, the basin was monitored through the installation of different instruments. Runoff was measured at the outlet of the catchment using a gauging structure. These data were used for the calibration and validation of the model before being implemented for future scenarios simulations. The results of these simulations delivered the potential impacts and the vulnerability of the Bonis catchment to different scenarios. These outcomes provided, for the stakeholders, a scientifically based and solid information for a sustainable management of the catchment.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
