Nowadays none questions the great benefits of the natural environment and consequently of the trees, both those that grow in forests and those that are in urban areas, that is, the ornamental trees. However, the fact that ...

Phytoextraction is a technology that allows the remediation of heavy metal-polluted soils by taking advantage of some plants capacity of extracting and translocating the metals to their harvestable parts. In spite the fact ...

Phytoremediation is a soil remediation technology that belongs to the gentle remediation techniques category due its lower environmental impacts compared to conventional procedures. However, recent publications show that ...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has become the most robust available technique for the environmental evaluation of land remediation projects. However, its results are highly dependent on local conditions and then hard to be ...

The chestnut tree (genus Castanea), deciduous species of great economic and historical importance in Galicia. Species capable of producing quality timber, edible nut biomass as environmental protection and landscape. Or ...

Wildlife-Vehicle collisions are an important risk factor for road safety, as well as an environmental impact from road networks. Lugo is one of the provinces in Spain with higher number of animal collisons. Only in 2007 a ...

The development of management plans for forest resources (PORF) is established in Law 43/2003 on Forestry and Forest planning instrument in the Spanish territory. The participation of local society to obtain a consensual ...