Siro Negri Woods Strict Nature Reserve (laboratory)

Director: Francesco Bracco

Headquarters: Zerbolò (PV) e Orto Botanico, Via S. Epifanio 14 (Second floor)

Main instruments:

• LCPro+ infrared gas exchange analyzer with PLC camera
• OS5p portable fluorimeter
• LI-COR 189 photon flux meter with LI189 sensor
• EC II-D laser distance meter and clinometer
• Vertex Laser Geo laser and ultrasonic distance meter, clinometer, and hypsometer
• Oven
• Zeiss Axiostar microscope
• Zeiss Axiocam 105 microcamera
• Scale

Activities performed:

Determination of phanerogamic species

Vegetation surveys

Ecophysiological measurements of LAI, chlorophyll fluorescence, and gas exchange

Microscopic analysis of leaf structures

Product types:

Multi-year Forest Fire Prevention Plan for the Reserve and its annual update

The laboratory is equipped for: 

Bachelor's theses, Master's theses Doctorate.