About the Authors

Roberto Tognetti

tognetti@unimol.it

Affiliations Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Pesche, Italy, The EFI Project Centre on Mountain Forests (MOUNTFOR), Edmund Mach Foundation, San Michele all'Adige, Italy

Fabio Lombardi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Pesche, Italy

Bruno Lasserre

Affiliation Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Pesche, Italy

Paolo Cherubini

Affiliation WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Marco Marchetti

Affiliation Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Pesche, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RT FL BL MM. Performed the experiments: RT FL BL MM. Analyzed the data: RT FL BL PC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RT FL BL PC MM. Wrote the paper: RT FL BL PC MM.