Castelporziano: A new work collects 7 years of research from the Italian LTER network

At the end of the first mandate of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, the Presidential Estate of Castelporziano, published the fourth series of the work entitled "The environmental system of the Presidential Estate of Castelporziano. Research on the complexity of a Mediterranean coastal forest ecosystem", issued in three volumes within the "Scritti e Documenti" series by the National Academy of Sciences known as the XL.

With over a thousand pages, the series collects sixty-one scientific contributions grouped into nine thematic areas, relating to the research and results achieved from 2015 to 2021. Topics such as meteo-climatic trends, hydrogeology, monitoring of fauna biodiversity and plants, the conservation of forest ecosystems and habitats, agro-zootechnical sustainability and the protection of the landscape but also the theme of social inclusion, the sharing of data on natural capital.

With an interdisciplinary vision aiming at a greater connection between natural and cultural capital, an entire volume has been dedicated to historical and archaeological research conducted within the Nature Reserve.

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