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Restoration of Dry grasslands (Magredi) in four Sites of Community Importance of Friuli Lowland (LIFE MAGREDI GRASSLANDS)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,
Background
The dry grasslands, âmagrediâ, are characterised by coarse soils deposited by the pre-alpine rivers Tagliamento, Cellina and Torre. The high permeability of the subsoil creates particular conditions of dry soil that are very unusual in a rainy area such as northern Italy. The bulk of these dry grasslands have been destroyed by agricultural ...
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Integrated approach for increasing breeding efficiency in fruit tree crops (FRUIT BREEDOMICS)
Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,
Fruit Breedomics has as its strategic goal to improve the efficiency of fruit breeding by bridging the gap between scientific genetics research and application in breeding. Fruit Breedomics takes a multidisciplinary approach, including genetics, genomics, ecophysiology and bioinformatics, to improve the efficiency apple and peach breeding programmes by: i) developing new and adapted tools, ii) stu ...
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Conservation and restoration of calcareous fens in Friuli (LIFE FRIULI FENS)
Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Jul 31, 2012,
Background
At the beginning of the 20th century, the area between the rivers Tagliamento and Isonzo was made up of 6 000 hectares of wetlands, most of which were alkaline and calcareous fens. Currently, only 200 hectares of these habitats survive and these are dispersed in small and fragmented patches, most of which are designated as Sites of Community Im ...
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