Sustainable management, critical issues and environmental services of a pastoral system in the Central Alps

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Funding

This work was supported by the Regione Lombardia.

Notes on contributors

Gaia Mascetti

Gaia Mascetti is a PhD student in environmental sciences. Her research activities are in the field of soil sciences, with a focus on alpine soils, soil-vegetation interactions, and soil ecosystem services.

Rodolfo Gentili

Rodolfo Gentili is a researcher. He has a keen interest in research concerning vegetation ecology in mountain environments and plant refugia under climate change scenarios.

Chiara Ferré

Chiara Ferré is a pedologist and expert in carbon storage, spatial variability, soil-plant relationships, and degradation processes.

Roberto Fuccella

Roberto Fuccella is an environmental agrotechnologist and a field and laboratory technician in agronomic and environmental science.

Sara Agaba

Sara Agaba is a PhD student in environmental sciences. Her research activities are in the field of soil sciences with a focus on digital soil mapping of SOC stock in different ecosystems.

Nicolò Pricca

Nicolò Pricca is a technical operator expert in the field of acquisition and management of multispectral data obtained through remote sensing and image analysis techniques.

Giovanni Cabassi

Giovanni Cabassi is a senior researcher. His research primarily focuses on the use of spectroscopic techniques (NIR, MIR, and UV-VIS) in the fields of forage production and dairy processing, as well as their applications in precision agriculture.

Milena Povolo

Milena Povolo is a researcher. Her scientific activity concerns the chemistry of dairy products and in particular the study of lipid and volatile fractions, both for the characterization of the product and in relation to the effects of technological processes and animal feeding.

Roberto Comolli

Roberto Comolli is a pedologist and expert in alpine soils, soil mapping, soil degradation and conservation, and soil-vegetation relationships.