Integrating Remote Sensing and Ground-Based Inventories to Map and Validate Old-Growthness across Italian Forests
Mature and Old-Growth-like Forests (MOGF) are critical for biodiversity conservation and climate regulation, yet they remain rare and fragmented across Europe. This study aims to ecologically validate a high-resolution (30 m) predictive map of MOGF probability across Italy by integrating it with independent ground-base...