Search results for " PHYTOSOCIOLOGY"

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Phytosociological characterization of the Celtis tournefortii subsp. aetnensis microwoods in Sicily

2014

A work on the Celtis tournefortii subsp. aetnensis vegetation, endemic species located in disjointed sites in the Sicilian inland, is here presented. It forms microwoods with a relict character established on screes and detrital coverages, on a variety of lithological substrates (volcanics, limestones, quartzarenites). Based on the phytosociological analysis carried out in the territory, these vegetation aspects are framed in the alliance Oleo-Ceratonion, within which a new association (Pistacio terebinthi-Celtidetum aetnensis) is described, in turn diversified in the following subassociations: a) typicum subass. nova, on detrital calcareous cones of the north-western part of Sicily, in the…

biodiversity Celtis tournefortii subsp. aetnensis Mediterranean vegetation phytosociology Pistacio-Rhamnetalia alaterni Sicily syntaxonomySettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata
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Aspetti del Rosmarino-Thymetum capitati Furnari, 1965 presso la Torre di Monterosso (Sicilia centro-meridionale)

2014

A phytosociological study on the garrigue characterized by Rosmarinus officinalis and Thymbra capitata, settled on coastal lithosols unsuitable for agriculture, in the municipality of Realmonte (Southern Sicily, Agrigento province), is presented. The field work allowed, as well, to ascertain the vulnerability of the studied sites, due to the instability and erosion of the substrates, along with anthropogenic threats related to the urban sprawl affecting the area.

garrigue phytosociology Agrigento coast coastal biotopesSettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata
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VegItaly: The Italian collaborative project for a national vegetation database

2012

Abstract Two years after its official start, the national vegetation database VegItaly, a collaborative project supported by the Italian scientific community and developed by a large group of scientists, is presented. This article offers a concise overview of the content of the database, currently consisting of 31,100 vegetation plot, including published and unpublished data. Some basic statistics are analysed; for example, data distribution in space and time, represented vegetation types expressed as physiognomic categories. Although rather young and still in progress, VegItaly already contains data from all the Italian regions and stands as an optimal candidate for the development of an I…

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National vegetation databases: the case of VegItaly.

2014

vegetation database; phytosociology; vegetation plot; taxonomy; syntaxonomytaxonomyphytosociologySettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicataphytosociology data-base VegItalyvegetation databasesyntaxonomyvegetation; databasevegetation plot
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European Vegetation Archive: now EVA really starts!

2014

European Vegetation Archive (EVA) was announced as a new initiative of the European Vegetation Survey at the EVS Meeting in Vienna in 2012. The aim of EVA is to create a centralized database of European vegetation plots by storing copies of national and regional databases on a single software platform using a unified taxonomic reference database. EVA does not affect the ongoing independent developments of source data­ bases and it guarantees that data property rights of the original contributors are re­ spected. EVA Data Property and Governance Rules were approved and the EVA website (www.euroveg.org/eva­database) was established in 2012. Since then several European vegetation­plot database…

vegetation phytosociology data-base EuropeSettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata
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