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Angelino Carta

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Red Listing plants under full national responsibility: Extinction risk and threats in the vascular flora endemic to Italy

2018

Abstract Taxa endemic to a country are key elements for setting national conservation priorities and for driving conservation strategies, since their persistence is entirely dependent on national policy. We applied the IUCN Red List categories to all Italian endemic vascular plants (1340 taxa) to assess their current risk of extinction and to highlight their major threats. Our results revealed that six taxa are already extinct and that 22.4% (300 taxa) are threatened with extinction, while 18.4% (247; especially belonging to apomictic groups) have been categorized as Data Deficient. Italian endemic vascular plants are primarily threatened by natural habitat modification due to agriculture, …

0106 biological sciencesBehavior and SystematicBiodiversity conservation; Endemic rich areas; Endemic taxa; IUCN Red Lists; Mediterranean Basin; Species richness; Taxonomic knowledgeFloraSpecies richneEndemic taxaEvolutionBiodiversity conservation Endemic rich areas Endemic taxa IUCN Red Lists Mediterranean Basin Species richness Taxonomic knowledgeBiodiversity conservation010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesTaxonomic knowledgeBiodiversity conservation; Endemic rich areas; Endemic taxa; IUCN Red Lists; Mediterranean Basin; Species richness; Taxonomic knowledge; Plant Ecology; Nature and Landscape ConservationIUCN Red ListEndemic rich areasEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsIUCN Red ListsNature and Landscape ConservationData deficientExtinctionEndemic rich areaEcologyEcology010604 marine biology & hydrobiologyPlant EcologyIUCN Red ListEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicBiodiversity hotspotHabitat destructionGeographyThreatened speciesMediterranean BasinProtected areaSpecies richness
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IDPlanT: the Italian database of plant translocation

2021

IDPlanT is the Italian Database of Plant Translocation, an initiative of the Nature Conservation Working Group of the Italian Botanical Society. IDPlanT currently includes 185 plant translocations. The establishment of a national database on plant translocation is a key step forward in data sharing and techniques improvement in this field of plant conservation. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2021.1985004.

threatened plantAssisted colonisation; data-sharing; plant conservation; plant reintroduction; population reinforcement; threatened plantspopulation reinforcementplant reintroductionAmbientaleplant conservationChromosomal translocationPlant ScienceComputational biologyData sharingGeographyAssisted colonisationassisted colonisation data-sharing plant conservation plant reintroduction population reinforcement threatened plantsthreatened plantsdata-sharingEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics
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Red list of threatened vascular plants in Italy

2021

Italy has a rich natural heritage, which is dangerously under pressure. In recent years, there is an increased awareness of the crucial role of plants in ecosystem functioning and in providing ecosystem services. Consequently, an updated Red List of the Italian vascular flora was compiled in this work, at the request of the Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea Protection, with the scientific support of the Italian Botanical Society. The IUCN Red List criteria were applied to 2,430 Italian native vascular plant taxa to assess their current extinction risk and to highlight the major threats affecting the Italian flora. Our results revealed that 54 taxa (2.2% of the assessed taxa) are extinc…

threatened plant0106 biological sciencesAgroforestrybiodiversity conservation; IUCN Red Lists; Mediterranean Basin; prioritization; threatened plantsSettore BIO/02 - Botanica SistematicaPlant ScienceprioritizationIUCN Red ListBiodiversity conservation010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesfloraGeographythreatened plantsThreatened speciesNatural heritageSettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E ApplicataIUCN Red ListBiodiversity conservation; IUCN Red Lists; Mediterranean Basin; prioritization; threatened plants; flora;EcosystemMediterranean BasinEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsBiodiversity conservation; threatened plants; IUCN Red Lists; Mediterranean Basin; prioritization010606 plant biology & botanyIUCN Red Lists
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IDPlanT: the Italian database of plant translocation

2021

IDPlanT is the Italian Database of Plant Translocation, an initiative of the Nature Conservation Working Group of the Italian Botanical Society. IDPlanT currently includes 185 plant translocations. The establishment of a national database on plant translocation is a key step forward in data sharing and techniques improvement in this field of plant conservation. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2021.1985004 .

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