both silvicultural system and forest type. Compartments
with low growing stocks are mainly even-aged
Esalpic Typical Mountain Beechwood (ETMB), where
the shelterwood system promotes extensive regeneration
areas. Here, on one hand ungulate damage is quite
absent, both due to the great number of saplings and
the lesser attractiveness of these stands. On the other
hand, the compartments with higher growing stocks,
represented by uneven-aged Mesoesalpic Mountain
Firwood (MMF), where selection cutting is adopted,
have a different structure, more highly detailed in layers
and with more ecotones. Therefore these stands are
more frequently visited by deer; regeneration is
severely limited and where found is sporadic and not
uniformly distributed.