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Vercelli rice fields: integrated plan for environmental requalification and sustainable management of rice agroecosystem (ECO-RICE)
Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 1, 2014,
Background
Intensive rice cultivation dominates land use in the western Po river plain regions of Piedmont and Lombardy (Italy). Mechanised agriculture in these regions has threatened lowland habitats, leaving only artificial springs, small wetlands, scrubland and irrigation channels as semi-natural habitat features. Forest areas are also fragmented and c ...
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Conservation and management of the biotope 'S. Genuario Wetland' (San Genuario)
Start date: Jun 1, 2001, End date: Mar 31, 2005,
Background
The San Genuario marshland biotope is a small pocket of land in Vercelli province in an area that has been almost completely transformed into ricefields. The ponds of the former Alma fish farm, now abandoned and spontaneously reverted to nature, have been selected as a Natura 2000 network site (SCI and SPA). The different levels of water in the ...
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