Search results for "Basilicata"
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The integrated action framework of Rete Natura 2000 Basilicata
2012
Basilicata Natura 2000 network consists of 50 Sites of Community Importance (SCI) and 17 Special Protection Zones (SPZs), covering alltogether more than 17% of the regional area. This network, partially overlapping other forms of land protection, represents a valuable environmental, agricultural and cultural heritage, in which the safeguard of natural resources and landscapes has to be coupled with the needs of the local population; especially in relation to development and social welfare. The Natura 2000 project involved a panel of experts belonging to 15 different institutions, to form a steering committee with the following professional and scientific skills: vegetation, landscape, fauna…
Hieracium jurassicum subsp. serrapretense (Asteraceae), a new hawkweed taxon from the pollino national park (Southern Italy)
2018
A new hawkweed taxon endemic to the Pollino National Park (southern Italy), Hieracium jurassicum subsp. serrapretense, is described and illustrated. Information on its morphology, distribution, ecology and taxonomic relationship is provided.
Educational or emotional languages? An interactive experiment with the Lucanian flora (S-Italy)
2010
In the frame of dissemination activities for a still-in-progress work on the Sites of Community Importance (see EU Directive 92/43) of Basilicata (a region of Southern Italy), an interactive tool (IIT) for the identification of vascular plants growing there has been illustrated to two groups of people, following two different approaches: one focused on textual parts and on scientific accuracy, the other on images and on the visual comparison of different objects. The reactions were measured in terms of number of accesses to the IIT, elapsed time from the demonstration to the first individual access, and number of queries in the first week after the IIT was distributed. The most clicked opti…