{"id":1544,"date":"2026-09-10T02:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/?page_id=1544"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:24:24","slug":"usefol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/projects\/usefol\/","title":{"rendered":"USEFOL \u2013 Ecosystem services in Lombardy forests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>2020\u20132023 \u00b7 Lombardy Region \u2013 Research Call 2018 \u00b7 Coordinator: University of Turin<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Scientific lead: Renzo Motta<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<!-- forestlab-project-image:start -->\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large forestlab-project-main-image\">\n<img width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"\nsrc=\"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-09-usefol-768x1024.jpg\"\nalt=\"Forest management operations\"\nclass=\"wp-image-1730\"\n srcset=\"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-09-usefol-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-09-usefol-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-09-usefol-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-09-usefol.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: Queryzo \/ Wikimedia Commons \u00b7 Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Forstarbeiten_in_%C3%96sterreich.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<!-- forestlab-project-image:end -->\n\n\n<p>USEFOL developed tools for the integrated assessment of sustainable forest management, wood availability, carbon and ecosystem services in Lombardy forests, with case studies in Valle Camonica and Valtellina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ForestLab contributed to biomass and carbon assessment and to the simulation of climate and management scenarios, integrating Forest Management Plan data, field surveys, GEDI, Sentinel-2 and models including WOCAS, 3PG and the Carbon Budget Model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related research lines:<\/strong>\n<a href=\"\/en\/sustainable-forest-management-planning\/\">Sustainable forest management and planning<\/a> \u00b7\n<a href=\"\/en\/forest-carbon-climate-mitigation-bioeconomy\/\">Forest carbon, climate mitigation and bioeconomy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reports and outputs:<\/strong>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usefol.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USEFOL website<\/a> \u00b7\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ersaf.lombardia.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/37-USEFOL-scheda-finale.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final project report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020\u20132023 \u00b7 Lombardy Region \u2013 Research Call 2018 \u00b7 Coordinator: University of Turin Scientific lead: Renzo Motta USEFOL developed tools for the integrated assessment of sustainable forest management, wood availability, carbon and ecosystem services in Lombardy forests, with case studies in Valle Camonica and Valtellina. ForestLab contributed to biomass and carbon assessment and to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":1730,"parent":570,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1544","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1544\/revisions\/1733"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}