Soil degradation as a cause of brushwood clear-cutting and grazing in Mediterranean forests

Abstract

This research shows the early results of a pedological study developed in carbonatic areas of central-eastern Sardinia (Italy). Investigated soils show evident influence of human activity. In particular, the degradation is a conseguence of intense grazing and unplanned brushwood clearcutting (by the indistinct and non selective cutting of grass and shrub land)