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Shedding light on typical species: Implications for habitat monitoring
Gianmaria BonariEdy FantinatoLorenzo LazzaroMarta Gaia SperandiiAlicia Teresa Rosario AcostaMarina AllegrezzaSilvia AssiniMarco CaccianigaValter Di CeccoAnnarita FrattaroliDaniela GiganteGiovanni RivieccioGiulio TeseiBarbara ValleDaniele VicianiGiulia Albani RocchettiClaudia AngioliniEmilio BadalamentiDavide BarberisMatteo BarcellaGiuseppe BazanAndrea BertacchiRossano BolpagniFederica BoniniAlessandro BriccaGabriella BuffaMariasole CalbiSilvia CannucciLuigi Cao PinnaMaria Carmela CariaEmanuela CarliSilvia CasconeMauro CastiBruno Enrico Leone CeraboliniRiccardo CopizMaurizio CutiniLeopoldo De SimoneAndrea De TomaMichele Dalle FratteLuciano Di MartinoRomeo Di PietroLeonardo FilesiBruno FoggiPaola FortiniRoberto GennaioGabriele GhezaMichele LonatiAndrea MainettiMarco MalavasiCorrado MarcenòCarla MicheliChiara MinuzzoMichele MugnaiCarmelo Maria MusarellaFrancesca NapoleoneGinevra NotaGiovanna PigaMarco PittarelloIlaria PozziSafiya PraleskouskayaFrancesco RotaGiacomo SantiniSimona SarmatiAlberto SelvaggiGiovanni SpampinatoAdriano StincaFrancesco Pio TozziRoberto VenanzoniMariacristina VillaniKatia ZanattaMagda ZanzotteraSimonetta Bagellasubject
Structure and functiondiagnostic and characteristic species habitat monitoring keystone species Natura 2000 plant community structure and functions typical species 92/43/EEC DirectiveKeystone specieSettore BIO/02 - Botanica SistematicaTypical speciesPlant cultureDiagnostic and characteristic speciesPlant communitySB1-1110Diagnostic and characteristic specie92/43/EEC Directive; Diagnostic and characteristic species; Habitat monitoring; Keystone species; Natura 2000; Plant community; Structure and functions; Typical speciesKeystone species92/43/EEC DirectiveStructure and functionsHabitat monitoringNatura 2000QK900-989Plant ecologySettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale e Applicatadescription
Habitat monitoring in Europe is regulated by Article 17 of the Habitats Directive, which suggests the use of typical species to assess habitat conservation status. Yet, the Directive uses the term “typical” species but does not provide a definition, either for its use in reporting or for its use in impact assessments. To address the issue, an online workshop was organized by the Italian Society for Vegetation Science (SISV) to shed light on the diversity of perspectives regarding the different concepts of typical species, and to discuss the possible implications for habitat monitoring. To this aim, we inquired 73 people with a very different degree of expertise in the field of vegetation science by means of a tailored survey composed of six questions. We analysed the data using Pearson's Chi-squared test to verify that the answers diverged from a random distribution and checked the effect of the degree of experience of the surveyees on the results. We found that most of the surveyees agreed on the use of the phytosociological method for habitat monitoring and of the diagnostic and characteristic species to evaluate the structural and functional conservation status of habitats. With this contribution, we shed light on the meaning of “typical” species in the context of habitat monitoring.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2021-06-30 |