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Grasslands provide diverse opportunities for bird species along an urban-rural gradient
2021
Urbanisation is a major cause of biodiversity loss but careful habitat management and provision of green space within cities can help to mitigate its negative effects. Grasslands occupy large surface areas and have many functions but only a few studies have begun to explore how birds exploit these habitats in urban contexts. We hypothesized that the value of grasslands for nesting and feeding birds is likely to depend both on landscape context, and on local characteristics (grassland size, use and vegetation structure). We surveyed local habitat characteristics, breeding bird presence, abundance and foraging activity in 47 grassland sites, distributed along an urban-rural gradient in two Fr…
Baltic Botanic Gardens in 2009-2010: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
2012
The periodical issue of Baltic Botanic Gardens includes information about the main events in the botanical gardens of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 2009-2010. It contains statistical information about the gardens and eight articles about the collections, research and public activities of the botanical gardens.
Baltic Botanic Gardens in 2007-2008: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
2009
The periodical issue of Baltic Botanic Gardens includes information about main events in the Botanical Gardens in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 2007 – 2008. It contains 15 scientific articles about collections of Botanical Gardens.
The Garden and Landscape as an Interdisciplinary Resource Between Experimental Science and Artistic-Musical Expression: Analysis of Competence Develo…
2020
The garden is a major educational resource that can be used for all areas of knowledge from an interdisciplinary perspective as it reflects the complexity and interactions of the natural environment. This research was carried out in the academic years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 with 418 participants of from the second, third, and fourth year of the Degree in Primary Education at the University of Valencia. The use of the garden and the landscape is analyzed as a non-formal context for training primary school teachers through sensory experiences that contribute to the development of scientific and artistic competencies. The study focused on the relationship between natural sounds and emotions t…
Il contributo dell'Orto Botanico di Palermo allo studio tassonomico delle flore tropicali
1990
The Palermo Botanical Garden contained, since its foundation, rich collections of tropical and subtropical plants. In the past various botanists like A. Todaro, A. Borzì, G.E. Mattei, D. Lanza, V. Riccobono, A. Terracciano, carried out studies on entities growing in the Garden, describing several new taxa. Taxonomical and phytogeographical researches on the flora of the Horn of Africa have been recently undertaken.
I giardini borbonici di Palermo tra conservazione e valorizzazione
2021
This essay, through the presentation of an educational experience regarding two Palermo parks-gardens, aims to offer a cognitive contribution and critical reflections, for the enhancement of these assets, with particular reference to section D) of the ICOMOS-IFLA Florence Charter. The heritage of the historic gardens in Palermo and Sicily, created by the Bourbon kings in the early nineteenth century, as an integral part of their royal estates, constitutes today a precious heritage not adequately valued, not recognized as a unicum, even in relation to similar Campania heritage. This heritage includes the Parco della Favorita, established by Ferdinand IV of Bourbon in 1799 and the d' Orlèans …
Introduction to the study of the bryological flora of the Batumi Botanical Garden (Georgia)
2021
A preliminary list of 22 bryophytes growing in the Batumi Botanical garden is provided. From chorological point of view, temperate and boreo-temperate taxa prevail while with regard to ecological behaviour, mesophilous taxa are the most numerous and with respect to light requirements equivalently sciaphilous and eliophilous taxa are represented. The mosses Fissidens dubius and Cyrtomnium hymenophylloides are recorded for the first time in Georgia.
Urban gardens and institutional fences: The case of communal gardens in Turin
2017
Urban gardens take on different forms and meanings, which vary depending on the socio-economic context where they located/used and how it evolves over time. This makes a garden comparable to a micro-social ecosystem, different from other gardens and ever changing. As with every social-ecosystem resulting from a territorialisation process, there is a certain degree of social inertia that makes it difficult for outsiders with new motivations and demanding new spaces to enter into the "garden ecosystem". Drawing on existing literature and fieldwork in two urban communal gardens in Turin, the paper is mainly concerned with the spatiotemporal dimension of urban gardening, with a special focus on…
The Hydraulic space of the Conca d'Oro of Palermo as a paradigm of the Mediterranean water sensitive city.
2016
The orchards TAL on Palermo periurban countryside follows the Arab conception of hydraulic space. The concept of Hydraulic space combines several technologies to achieve the best use of water resources by differentiating agricultural productions in time and space and by connecting different functions (hydraulic, climatic and aesthetic) in a homogeneous system. This conception of space extends to the whole Conca d’Oro across the countryside to the heart of the historical town to the intimate domestic space in the end. During the Norman age the Zisa source used to refresh and embellish the interior of the castle before water slides towards the gardens; on the surface of Fawara-Maredolce lake …