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Forest damage inventory after the "Vaia" storm in Italy

2019; Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3832/efor3070-016

1824-0119

Gherardo Chirici, Francesca Giannetti, Davide Travaglini, S. Nocentini, Saverio Francini, Giovanni D’Amico, E. S. Calvo, D Fasolini, Mario Broll, F Maistrelli, J Tonner, M. Pietrogiovanna, K Oberlechner, Artur Andriolo, R Comino, A Faidiga, I Pasutto, G. Carraro, Silas Zen, F Contarin, Lucilla Alfonsi, Alessandro Wolynski, Marina Zanin, Calogera Liliana Gagliano, Sergio Tonolli, Roberto Zoanetti, R Tonetti, Raffaele Cavalli, Emanuele Lingua, Francesco Pirotti, Stefano Grigolato, D Bellingeri, Elena Zini, D. Gianelle, M. Dalponte, Enrico Pompei, Alberto De Stefani, Renzo Motta, Donato Morresi, Matteo Garbarino, Giorgio Alberti, F Valdevit, Enrico Tomelleri, Michele Torresani, Giustino Tonon, Maurizio Marchi, Piermaria Corona, Marco Marchetti,

Forest ecology and management

Forest damage inventory after the "Vaia" storm in Italy On October 29, 2018, the Vaia storm hits the North-Eastern regions of Italy by wind gusts exceeding 200 km h -1 .The forests in these regions have been seriously damaged.This contribution illustrates the methodology adopted in the emergency phase to estimate forest damages caused by Vaia storm, both in terms of damaged forest areas and growing stock volume of fallen trees.494 Municipalities registered forest damages caused by Vaia, destroyed or intensely damaged forest stands amounted to about 42,500 ha, spread in Trentino Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lombardy and, only marginally, Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta.The growing stock volume of fallen trees was about 8.5 millions m 3 .