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Mediterranean plant germination reports – 3

2021

This is the third issue of the series of germination reports from Mediterranean areas (sensu Med-Checklist). It comprises germination protocols for 40 taxa: Teucrium from Sardinia by M. Porceddu & al. (Nos. 46-47); Campanula from North Italy by S. Villa & al. (No. 48); Anacamptis from Greece by S. Oikonomidis & C. A. Thanos. (No. 49); Astragalus, Iris, Jacobaea, and Klasea from central Italy by V. Di Cecco & al. (No. 50-53); Drimia, Periploca, Asparagus, Myrtus, and Pancratium from Malta by J. Buhagiar & al. (Nos. 54-58); Thymus from Sicily by G. Gugliuzza & al. (No. 59); Agrostemma, Bupleurum, and Xeranthemum from North Italy by A. Cucchietti & al. (Nos. 60-62);…

CITES and Cacti a user's guide

2012

This user’s guide covers the widely traded cactus family and how it is regulated by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The guide explores the major groups of cacti in trade, their distribution, conservation status, use and levels of trade as well as the likelihood of illegal trade. All CITES Appendix I taxa and a wide selection of Appendix II taxa are covered in detail. Major exemptions from CITES regulations are also outlined, including cacti not covered by CITES. The guide includes a fully illustrated PowerPoint training presentation with comprehensive speaker notes on CD-ROM.

CITES and Cydads - A Users' Guide

2010

Il parametro della pericolosità ed i poteri di polizia di sicurezza

2022

As is well known, the Republican Constitution configures public security in objective terms. This is framed as a public interest related to a situation of orderly and peaceful coexistence, an indispensable prerequisite for the exercise of other fundamental rights, or as an objective interest of the state, of the legal system, and therefore of the community as a whole. An idea of public security is expressed, on the one hand, as a limit to the exercise of freedoms, on the other, as a regulatory and administrative task of public authorities and, in particular, of the state apparatus. The first aspect that is most relevant here is found in the references to the concept of security contained in…

The Portuguese Man-of-War Has Always Entered the Mediterranean Sea—Strandings, Sightings, and Museum Collections

2022

A search of records from different kinds of sources namely, scientific and grey literature, social media, and zoological museum collections, has been carried out to review the incidence of Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758), the Portuguese man-of-war, in the Mediterranean Sea. The temporal frame of the records, considered valid if documented with images or collected specimens, ranged from the second half of the eighteenth century to the year 2021. Thanks to colonies preserved in some Italian historical museum collections, originating from the western basin, it was possible to date the putative first documented record of P. physalis of the Mediterranean Sea in 1850. The dataset shows some ma…

Patrimonio toponomastico di Sicilia. Una raccolta capillare per la toponimia orale e la sua cartografazione digitale

2022

Il progetto onomastico qui presentato rientra nel più ampio progetto dell’Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia. L’obiettivo è di documentare capillarmente l’intero patrimonio toponimico nella forma popolare (che affianca quella documentata e cartografata). La ricerca che si propone, di straordinaria ampiezza, costituirà una fondamentale chiave di lettura della storia linguistica della Sicilia e della sua complessa stratificazione. I primi sondaggi confermano che il patrimonio toponimico orale è a grave rischio di scomparsa. La possibilità di realizzare un portale interrogabile e interattivo è una opportunità di riconsegna al territorio non passiva e inerte, ma può sollecitare ulteriori attivit…

ISO 639, Yosemite e App che “parlano” dialetto. Qualche reazione e riflessione

2016

Quale teoria e concezione del dialetto soggiace all’idea di descrivere il siciliano come «abbastanza distinto dall’italiano tipico tanto da poter essere considerato un idioma separato» (Ethnologue, MOSELEY e ASHER 1994, 54)? Un certo ruolo deve avere la distorta pratica di valutare le varietà dell’italoromanzo come dialetti dell’italiano, pratica, questa, che, per altro, induce a proporre separazioni e distinzioni al punto da invocare, per alcune di queste varietà, lo statuto di «lingue madri». Se poi queste “lingue”, nella prospettiva ecolinguistica, presentano una serie di condizioni che ne mettono a rischio la sopravvivenza, entrano ne “Il Libro Rosso delle lingue in pericolo” (Red Book …

Examination of the Helminth Fauna of the Bermuda Skink, Plestiodon longirostris (Scincidae), Utilizing Faecal Analysis

2021

Plestiodon longirostris is a critically endangered endemic skink living in the Bermuda archipelago. To know their intestinal parasites and evaluate the role that they may have in the conservation of the species, we have carried out a faecal analysis of some samples obtained from several populations. This type of analysis is presented as the most suitable for threatened species. The results show that P. longirostris has incorporated parasites from introduced species in Bermuda, and it is a competent host for these parasites. Nevertheless, the low prevalence of infection of these parasites suggests that they are not actually a threat to the endemic skink populations.

Red List of vascular plants of Tajikistan – the core area of the Mountains of Central Asia global biodiversity hotspot

2020

AbstractCentral Pamir-Alai, which is located almost entirely within the area of Tajikistan, is one of the world hotspots of biodiversity, harbouring ca. 4,300 species and 1,400 endemic plants. The first application of the IUCN Red List criteria reveals that among all native species occurring in Tajikistan 1,627 taxa (38.11%) are threatened, including 23 extinct (0.54%), 271 (6.34%) critically endangered (CR), 717 (16.79%) endangered (EN) and 639 (14.96%) vulnerable (VU). Globally, 20 taxa are extinct, 711 (16.65%) threatened, including 144 (3.37%) critically endangered, 322 (7.54%) endangered and 245 (5.73%) vulnerable. As we found positive correlation between human density and the number o…

Narrativa dei Caraibi nel nuovo millennio

2020

L’etichetta “Letterature franco-caraibica” utilizzata, per convenzione, dalla critica per indicare unitariamente la produzione letteraria in lingua francese della regione centrale del Continente americano è assai impropria. La regione dei Caraibi abbraccia, infatti, sia alcune delle isole dell’arcipelago delle Piccole Antille (Martinica, Guadalupa), sia l’isola di Haïti, che fa parte delle Grandi Antille, che la Guiana incastonata sulla costa orientale dell’America meridionale. Pur nella diversità dei movimenti ideologici e degli avvenimenti storici che si sono succeduti nella regione, le opere letterarie degli scrittori caraibici francofoni, nel loro insieme, hanno oscillato, e continuano …