Ricerc@Sapienza

Cerambyx cerdo is a longhorn beetle widely distributed in southern and central Europe. This saproxylic beetle is generally associated with oak forests where there are mature or partially dead and sun-exposed trees. Its populations are currently threatened by forest practices such as the removal of partially dead trees and the decline in the number of old oak trees situated in open or semi-open landscapes. Thus, C. cerdo has been included in Annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive.

Among the wide pool of ecosystem services provided by forests to human wellbeing, biodiversity conservation represents one of the
most important topics of Sustainable Forest Management. Monitoring forest biodiversity is a challenging task as it includes all the
life forms that can be found in a forest. However, the availability of inventory data is often inadequate to assess the biodiversity value
of forests, therefore requiring improvements in monitoring activities and methods. In the last decades, several improvements have

In the last few years, the occurrence and abundance of tree-related microhabitats and habitat
trees have gained great attention across Europe as indicators of forest biodiversity. Nevertheless,
observing microhabitats in the field requires time and well-trained sta. For this reason, new ecient
semiautomatic systems for their identification and mapping on a large scale are necessary. This study
aims at predicting microhabitats in a mixed and multi-layered Mediterranean forest using Airborne