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1. Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 9

Author

C. Villano, Mauro Fois, Gianmaria Bonari, Michele Mugnai, G. Buccomino, Paolo Castagnini, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Alberto Selvaggi, Liliana Bernardo, F. Menini, Marco Sarigu, Andrea Mainetti, M. Aversa, Sergio Buono, Filippo Prosser, Simonetta Fascetti, Nicole Hofmann, Lorenzo Lazzaro, F. Bonali, M. Apruzzese, Marco Pittarello, Giovanni Spampinato, S. Ravetto Enri, Chiara Toffolo, Rodolfo Gentili, A. Ilari, Silvia Paola Assini, J. Lupoletti, G. Tomasi, Lorenzo Pinzani, Giuseppe Brundu, Andrea Milani, Adriano Stinca, Nicola M. G. Ardenghi, Filippo Scafidi, Lina Podda, G. Barberis, Valentina Laface, Mauro Mariotti, Andrea Lallai, Vanessa Lozano, M. Adorni, Gabriele Gheza, Luigi Minuto, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Claudia Turcato, D. Marchetti, Marco Merli, Alessio Bertolli, L. Onnis, Simonetta Peccenini, Duilio Iamonico, Antonio Pica, Giulio Ferretti, A. Di Turi, S. Ceschin, A. Kiraly, Francesco Bracco, Sara Magrini, L. Gubellini, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Giacomo Calvia, Ilaria Bonini, Davide Dagnino, Salvatore Cambria, Saverio Sciandrello, Daniela Longo, Gianmarco Tavilla, Gianluigi Bacchetta, F. Mariani, Michele Lonati, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Carmelo Maria Musarella, Claudia Angiolini, M. Manca, Enrico Banfi, Chiara Nepi, Gianniantonio Domina, Gergely Király, Nicola Olivieri, Giacomo Mei, E. Di Gristina, Leonardo Rosati, Gabriele Galasso, R. Masin, Galasso G., Domina G., Adorni M., Angiolini C., Apruzzese M., Ardenghi N.M.G., Assini S., Aversa M., Bacchetta G., Banfi E., Barberis G., Bartolucci F., Bernardo L., Bertolli A., Bonali F., Bonari G., Bonini I., Bracco F., Brundu G., Buccomino G., Buono S., Calvia G., Cambria S., Castagnini P., Ceschin S., Dagnino D., Di Gristina E., Di Turi A., Fascetti S., Ferretti G., Fois M., Gentili R., Gheza G., Gubellini L., Hofmann N., Iamonico D., Ilari A., Kiraly A., Kiraly G., Laface V.L.A., Lallai A., Lazzaro L., Lonati M., Longo D., Lozano V., Lupoletti J., Magrini S., Mainetti A., Manca M., Marchetti D., Mariani F., Mariotti M.G., Masin R.R., Mei G., Menini F., Merli M., Milani A., Minuto L., Mugnai M., Musarella C.M., Olivieri N., Onnis L., Passalacqua N.G., Peccenini S., Peruzzi L., Pica A., Pinzani L., Pittarello M., Podda L., Prosser F., Enri S.R., Roma-Marzio F., Rosati L., Sarigu M., Scafidi F., Sciandrello S., Selvaggi A., Spampinato G., Stinca A., Tavilla G., Toffolo C., Tomasi G., Turcato C., Villano C., Nepi C., Galasso, G, Domina, G, Adorni, M, Angiolini, C, Apruzzese, M, Ardenghi, N, Assini, S, Aversa, M, Bacchetta, G, Banfi, E, Barberis, G, Bartolucci, F, Bernardo, L, Bertolli, A, Bonali, F, Bonari, G, Bonini, I, Bracco, F, Brundu, G, Buccomino, G, Buono, S, Calvia, G, Cambria, S, Castagnini, P, Ceschin, S, Dagnino, D, Di Gristina, E, Di Turi, A, Fascetti, S, Ferretti, G, Fois, M, Gentili, R, Gheza, G, Gubellini, L, Hofmann, N, Iamonico, D, Ilari, A, Kiraly, A, Kiraly, G, Laface, V, Lallai, A, Lazzaro, L, Lonati, M, Longo, D, Lozano, V, Lupoletti, J, Magrini, S, Mainetti, A, Manca, M, Marchetti, D, Mariani, F, Mariotti, M, Masin, R, Mei, G, Menini, F, Merli, M, Milani, A, Minuto, L, Mugnai, M, Musarella, C, Olivieri, N, Onnis, L, Passalacqua, N, Peccenini, S, Peruzzi, L, Pica, A, Pinzani, L, Pittarello, M, Podda, L, Prosser, F, Enri, S, Roma-Marzio, F, Rosati, L, Sarigu, M, Scafidi, F, Sciandrello, S, Selvaggi, A, Spampinato, G, Stinca, A, Tavilla, G, Toffolo, C, Tomasi, G, Turcato, C, Villano, C, Nepi, C, Galasso, G., Domina, G., Adorni, M., Angiolini, C., Apruzzese, M., Ardenghi, N. M. G., Assini, S., Aversa, M., Bacchetta, G., Banfi, E., Barberis, G., Bartolucci, F., Bernardo, L., Bertolli, A., Bonali, F., Bonari, G., Bonini, I., Bracco, F., Brundu, G., Buccomino, G., Buono, S., Calvia, G., Cambria, S., Castagnini, P., Ceschin, S., Dagnino, D., Di Gristina, E., Di Turi, A., Fascetti, S., Ferretti, G., Fois, M., Gentili, R., Gheza, G., Gubellini, L., Hofmann, N., Iamonico, D., Ilari, A., Kiraly, A., Kiraly, G., Laface, V. L. A., Lallai, A., Lazzaro, L., Lonati, M., Longo, D., Lozano, V., Lupoletti, J., Magrini, S., Mainetti, A., Manca, M., Marchetti, D., Mariani, F., Mariotti, M. G., Masin, R. R., Mei, G., Menini, F., Merli, M., Milani, A., Minuto, L., Mugnai, M., Musarella, C. M., Olivieri, N., Onnis, L., Passalacqua, N. G., Peccenini, S., Peruzzi, L., Pica, A., Pinzani, L., Pittarello, M., Podda, L., Prosser, F., Enri, S. R., Roma-Marzio, F., Rosati, L., Sarigu, M., Scafidi, F., Sciandrello, S., Selvaggi, A., Spampinato, G., Stinca, A., Tavilla, G., Toffolo, C., Tomasi, G., Turcato, C., Villano, C., and Nepi, C.

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Flora, Alien species, Floristic data, Italy, New combinations, Nomenclature, new combinations, Plant Science, Alien, Biology, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, floristic data, lcsh:Botany, Alien species floristic data Italy new combinations nomenclature, Alien specie, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, BIO/03 - BOTANICA AMBIENTALE E APPLICATA, Ecology, Alien species, Floristic data, Italy, New combinations, Nomenclature, lcsh:QK1-989, BIO/02 - BOTANICA SISTEMATICA, Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata, nomenclature, New combination, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions. Furthermore, three new combinations are proposed. Nomenclatural and distribution updates published elsewhere are provided as Suppl. material 1.

Published
2020

2. Nomenclatural synopsis of cirsium sect. Eriolepis (asteraceae) in Italy

Author

Francesca Carucci, Paolo Caputo, Liliana Bernardo, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Duilio Iamonico, Gianniantonio Domina, Del Guacchio E., Bernardo L., Caputo P., Carucci F., Domina G., Iamonico D., Del Guacchio, E., Bernardo, L., Caputo, P., Carucci, F., Domina, G., and Iamonico, D.

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Italian endemic plant, Cnicus, Lacaita, Plant Science, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, L’Obel, Article, Cirsium, Carduinae, Carduus, Cnicus, Epitrachys, Italian endemic plants, Lacaita, L’Obel, Mediterranean flora, Petrak, Taxonomy, Tenore, Typification, Botany, Cnicu, Typification, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Epitrachys, Carduinae, Taxonomy, Carduu, Ecology, biology, Petrak, Eriophorum, Asteraceae, biology.organism_classification, Italian endemic plants, Taxon, Carduus, QK1-989, Mediterranean flora, Taxonomy (biology), Epitrachy, 010606 plant biology & botany, Tenore
Abstract

The names of the Italian taxa in Cirsium sect. Eriolepis are discussed. The accepted names are: Cirsium echinatum, C. eriophorum subsp. eriophorum, C. eriophorum subsp. spathulatum, C. ferox, C. italicum, C. lacaitae, C. lobelii, C. morisianum, C. scabrum, C. tenoreanum, C. vallis-demonii subsp. vallis-demonii, C. vallis-demonii subsp. calabrum comb. nov., and C. vulgare (= C. crinitum, C. sylvaticum). Four accepted names are typified by specimens preserved at FI (one lectotype), G (one lectotype and one neotype), P (one lectotype), and by illustrations (two lectotypes). Several other heterotypic synonyms of taxa described from Italy are discussed and six of them are typified. A new combination and status are proposed: C. vallis-demonii subsp. calabrum, based on C. eriophorum var. vallis-demonii f. calabrum.

Published
2021

3. An inventory of the names of native, non-endemic vascular plants described from Italy, their loci classici and types

Author

Mauro Iberite, Rossella Marcucci, Sara Magrini, Annalaura Pistarino, Simonetta Peccenini, Duilio Iamonico, G. Barberis, Gabriella Vacca, Gianmaria Bonari, Giuseppe Brundu, Daniela Longo, Liliana Bernardo, Romeo Di Pietro, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Robert P. Wagensommer, Adriano Stinca, Gabriele Galasso, Annalisa Santangelo, Giovanni Astuti, Nicola M. G. Ardenghi, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, Daniele Viciani, Enrico Banfi, Cristina Salmeri, Salvatore Brullo, Fabio Conti, A. Alessandrini, Moreno Clementi, Marco D'Antraccoli, Gianniantonio Domina, Lorenzo Lastrucci, Mariacristina Villani, Emanuela Carli, A Brunu, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Peruzzi, L., Galasso, G., Domina, G., Bartolucci, F., Santangelo, A., Alessandrini, A., Astuti, G., D'Antraccoli, M., Roma-Marzio, F., Ardenghi, N. M. G., Barberis, G., Conti, F., Bernardo, L., Peccenini, S., Stinca, A., Wagensommer, R. P., Bonari, G., Iamonico, D., Iberite, M., Viciani, D., Del Guacchio, E., Del Galdo, G. G., Lastrucci, L., Villani, M., Brunu, A., Magrini, S., Pistarino, A., Brullo, S., Salmeri, C., Brundu, G., Clementi, M., Carli, E., Vacca, G., Marcucci, R., Banfi, E., Longo, D., Di Pietro, R., Passalacqua, N. G., Lorenzo Peruzzi, Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Annalisa Santangelo, Alessandro Alessandrini, Giovanni Astuti, Marco D’antraccoli, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Nicola M.G. Ardenghi, Giuseppina Barberi, Fabio Conti, Liliana Bernardo, Simonetta Peccenini, Adriano Stinca, Robert P. Wagensommer, Gianmaria Bonari, Duilio Iamonico, Mauro Iberite, Daniele Viciani, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Gianpietro Giusso Del Galdo, Lorenzo Lastrucci, Mariacristina Villani, Antonello Brunu, Sara Magrini, Annalaura Pistarino, Salvatore Brullo, Cristina Salmeri, Giuseppe Brundu, Moreno Clementi, Emanuela Carli, Gabriella Vacca, Rossella Marcucci, Enrico Banfi, Daniela Longo, Romeo Di Pietro, and Nicodemo G. Passalacqua

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0106 biological sciences, Systematics, Systematic, Apennine, Apennines, food.ingredient, Trisetaria, Zoology, Alps, Mediterranean, nomenclature, phytogeography, systematics, taxonomy, Plant Science, Biology, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, food, Typification, Alps, Apennines, Mediterranean, nomenclature, phytogeography, systematics, taxonomy, Nomenclature, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Settore BIO/02 - Botanica Sistematica, Holotype, 15. Life on land, Allium savii, Smsystematics, Taxon, Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata, Alp, Taxonomy (biology), 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

The census of the loci classici of 1,227 native, non-endemic vascular plants described from Italy is here presented and described. The effective place of publication of accepted names, basionyms and homotypic synonyms were identified and critically verified. The geographic information on the loci classici was excerpted from the protologues, as well as information on typification for the taxa described before 1 January 1958. The names without a holotype are 1,165. For 591 names a lecto- or neo-typification is available in literature, while 572 currently accepted taxa still need a type designation. For ten of these names showing previous ineffective typification, nomenclatural types are designated here ( Allium savii , A. tenuiflorum , Anemone millefoliata , Catapodium tuberculosum , Cynosurus siculus , Filago congesta , Saponaria bellidifolia , Sclerochloa patens , S. zwierleinii , and Vicia leucantha ). A new combination ( Trisetaria aurea comb. nov. ) is proposed. The general picture of the currently accepted taxa of vascular plants described from Italy, including endemics, amounts to 2,631, i.e. about 32% of the native flora currently recorded for the country.

Published
2019

4. Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 9

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Liliana Bernardo, Carmelo Maria Musarella, Gianmarco Tavilla, Simone Orsenigo, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Salvatore Cambria, Valentina Laface, Giuseppe Fenu, Domenico Gargano, and Giovanni Spampinato

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, threats, conservation, extinction risk, Plant Science, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, lcsh:QK1-989, Fishery, Geography, conservation extinction risk IUCN protocol threats, IUCN protocol, lcsh:Botany, IUCN Red List, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of three vascular plants according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the assessment of Soldanella calabrella Kress at global level, and the regional assessment of Luzula pindica (Hausskn.) Chrtek & Křísa and Romulea variicolor Mifsud (Italy).

Published
2020

5. A morphometric and karyological study of Onobrychis calabrica (Fabaceae), a neglected species endemic to Calabria, S Italy

Author

Liliana Bernardo, Jacopo Franzoni, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Francesco Roma-Marzio, and Giovanni Maiorca

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Onobrychis, Calabria, Fabaceae, Italy, karyology, Leguminosae, morphometry, taxonomy, Plant Science, Biology, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Critically endangered, Botany, IUCN Red List, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, biology.organism_classification, Taxon, Botánica, Taxonomy (biology), Ploidy, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

A morphometric (multivariate and univariate) and karyological study of Onobrychis calabrica Sirj. (Fabaceae), compared to O. alba subsp. echinata (Guss.) P. W. Ball and O. supina (Chaix ex Vill.) DC., was carried out. According to our results, twelve morphological characters clearly support the distinctiveness of O. calabrica. In addition, the latter species is tetraploid with 2n = 4x = 28 chromosomes, whereas the other two taxa are diploid with 2n = 2x = 14 chromosomes. The names O. calabrica and O. handel-mazzettii Sirj. (a heterotypic synonym of O. supina) are lectotypified here. Onobrychis calabrica, a narrow endemic to SE Calabria, S Italy, is here assessed as Critically Endangered CR B1ab(iii)+B2ab(iii) following IUCN Red List categories and criteria.

Published
2020

6. Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 9

Author

Francesco Festi, D. Marchetti, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Paola Liguori, Davide Barberis, Riccardo Pennesi, Filippo Prosser, Maurizio Trenchi, Sandro Ballelli, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Valeria Tomaselli, Giuseppina Chianese, Antonietta Crisanti, Adriano Stinca, Mariangela Pellegrino, Gina Pirastru, Giancarlo Tondi, Ian Briozzo, Gabriele Galasso, Fernando Lucchese, Simone Ravetto Enri, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Luigi Minuto, Davide Dagnino, Claudia Turcato, Daniela Longo, Mauro Mariotti, Chiara Toffolo, Lorenzo Pinzani, Flavio Menini, Enrico Banfi, Alessio Bertolli, Sebastiano Andreatta, Chiara Nepi, Gianniantonio Domina, Alfredo Di Filippo, Carlo Cibei, Giovanni Russo, Gianmaria Bonari, Giovanna Orrù, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Maria Loredana Pala, Simonetta Fanni, Maria Carmine Locci, M. Bovio, Günter Gottschlich, Assunta Esposito, Giacomo Calvia, Roberto Angius, Giuseppe Silletti, Rodolfo Gentili, E. Lattanzi, Luigi Forte, Maurizio Copez, Nicola M. G. Ardenghi, G. Barberis, Fabio Conti, Liliana Bernardo, Giovanni Buccomino, Michele Lonati, Anna Scoppola, Bartolucci F., Domina G., Andreatta S., Angius R., Ardenghi N.M.G., Bacchetta G., Ballelli S., Banfi E., Barberis D., Barberis G., Bernardo L., Bertolli A., Bonari G., Bovio M., Briozzo I., Buccomino G., Calvia G., Chianese G., Cibei C., Conti F., Copez M., Crisanti A., Dagnino D., Di Filippo A., Esposito A., Fanni S., Festi F., Forte L., Galasso G., Gentili R., Gottschlich G., Lattanzi E., Liguori P., Locci M.C., Longo D., Lonati M., Lucchese F., Marchetti D., Mariotti M.G., Menini F., Minuto L., Orru G., Pala M.L., Passalacqua N.G., Pellegrino M., Pennesi R., Peruzzi L., Pinzani L., Pirastru G., Prosser F., Enri S.R., Roma-Marzio F., Russo G., Scoppola A., Silletti G., Stinca A., Toffolo C., Tomaselli V., Tondi G., Trenchi M., Turcato C., Nepi C., Bartolucci, F, Domina, G, Andreatta, S, Angius, R, Ardenghi, Nmg, Bacchetta, G, Ballelli, S, Banfi, E, Barberis, D, Barberis, G, Bernardo, L, Bertolli, A, Bonari, G, Bovio, M, Briozzo, I, Buccomino, G, Calvia, G, Chianese, G, Cibei, C, Conti, F, Copez, M, Crisanti, A, Dagnino, D, Di Filippo, A, Esposito, A, Fanni, S, Festi, F, Forte, L, Galassog, Gentili, R, Gottschlich, G, Lattanzi, E, Liguori, P, Locci, Mc, Longo, D, Lonati, M, Lucchese, F, Marchetti, D, Mariotti, M, Flavio Menini, F, Luigi Minuto, L, Orrù, G, Loredana Pala, Ml, Passalacqua, Ng, Pellegrino, M, Pennesi, R, Peruzzi, L, Pinzani, L, Pirastru, G, Prosser, F, Ravetto Enri, S, Roma-Marzio, F, Russo, G, Scoppola, A, Silletti, G, Stinca, A, Toffolo, C, Tomaselli, V, Tondi, G, Trenchi, M, Turcato, C, Nepi, C, Ardenghi, N, Galasso, G, Locci, M, Menini, F, Minuto, L, Orru, G, Pala, M, Passalacqua, N, and Enri, S

Subjects
Endemic, Floristic data, Italy, Nomenclature, Endemic Floristic data Italy Nomenclature, 0106 biological sciences, BIO/03 - BOTANICA AMBIENTALE E APPLICATA, 010506 paleontology, Flora, Nomenclature, Zoology, Floristic data, Plant Science, Biology, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, lcsh:QK1-989, Endemic, Italy, lcsh:Botany, BIO/02 - BOTANICA SISTEMATICA, Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes to the Italian administrative regions. Two new combinations are proposed. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as Suppl. material 1.

Published
2020

7. Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 8

Author

Gianluigi Bacchetta, Goffredo Filibeck, Bruno Petriglia, L. Gubellini, Corrado Tietto, Giovanni Maiorca, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Sara Magrini, Federica Bonini, Vito Buono, Daniele Viciani, G. Gestri, Pier Luigi Nimis, Giovanni Spampinato, Lina Podda, Serafino Cannavò, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Claudia Turcato, Simonetta Peccenini, Livia Lunardi, Nicole Hofmann, Sara Mossini, Gianmaria Bonari, Assunta Esposito, Sergio Buono, Robert P. Wagensommer, Daniela Gigante, Leonardo Beccarisi, Andrea Mainetti, Liliana Bernardo, Richard Lorenz, Günter Gottschlich, Luigi Forte, G. Barberis, Giacomo Calvia, Valeria Tomaselli, Chiara Nepi, Gianniantonio Domina, Rita T. Messa Ballarin, Giuliano Mereu, Salvatore Brullo, Simone Ravetto Enri, Luigi Minuto, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Manuel Tiburtini, Graziana Fiorini, Enrico Banfi, Michele Lonati, Franco Ballarin, Giovanni Bacaro, Lorenzo Lastrucci, Nicola M. G. Ardenghi, Leonardo Rosati, Franco Caldararo, Gabriele Galasso, Alessandro Ruggero, Mario Calbi, Adriano Stinca, Simonetta Fascetti, Laura Cancellieri, Giovanna Potenza, Davide Dagnino, Carmelo Maria Musarella, Bartolucci F., Domina G., Ardenghi N.M.G., Bacaro G., Bacchetta G., Ballarin F., Banfi E., Barberis G., Beccarisi L., Bernardo L., Bonari G., Bonini F., Brullo S., Buono S., Buono V., Calbi M., Caldararo F., Calvia G., Cancellieri L., Cannavo S., Dagnino D., Esposito A., Fascetti S., Filibeck G., Fiorini G., Forte L., Galasso G., Gestri G., Gigante D., Gottschlich G., Gubellini L., Hofmann N., Lastrucci L., Lonati M., Lorenz R., Lunardi L., Magrini S., Mainetti A., Maiorca G., Mereu G., Ballarin R.T.M., Minuto L., Mossini S., Musarella C.M., Nimis P.L., Passalacqua N.G., Peccenini S., Petriglia B., Podda L., Potenza G., Enri S.R., Roma-Marzio F., Rosati L., Ruggero A., Spampinato G., Stinca A., Tiburtini M., Tietto C., Tomaselli V., Turcato C., Viciani D., Wagensommer R.P., Nepi C., Bartolucci, F., Domina, G., Ardenghi, N. M. G., Bacaro, G., Bacchetta, G., Ballarin, F., Banfi, E., Barberis, G., Beccarisi, L., Bernardo, L., Bonari, G., Bonini, F., Brullo, S., Buono, S., Buono, V., Calbi, M., Caldararo, F., Calvia, G., Cancellieri, L., Cannavo, S., Dagnino, D., Esposito, A., Fascetti, S., Filibeck, G., Fiorini, G., Forte, L., Galasso, G., Gestri, G., Gigante, D., Gottschlich, G., Gubellini, L., Hofmann, N., Lastrucci, L., Lonati, M., Lorenz, R., Lunardi, L., Magrini, S., Mainetti, A., Maiorca, G., Mereu, G., Ballarin, R. T. M., Minuto, L., Mossini, S., Musarella, C. M., Nimis, P. L., Passalacqua, N. G., Peccenini, S., Petriglia, B., Podda, L., Potenza, G., Enri, S. R., Roma-Marzio, F., Rosati, L., Ruggero, A., Spampinato, G., Stinca, A., Tiburtini, M., Tietto, C., Tomaselli, V., Turcato, C., Viciani, D., Wagensommer, R. P., Nepi, C., Bartolucci, F, Domina, G, Ardenghi, Nmg, Bacaro, G, Bacchetta, G, Ballarin, F, Banfi, E, Barberis, G, Beccarisi, L, Bernardo, L, Bonari, G, Bonini, F, Brullo, S, Buono, S, Buono, V, Calbi, M, Caldararo, F, Calvia, G, Cancellieri, L, Cannavò, S, Dagnino, D, Esposito, A, Fascetti, S, Filibeck, G, Fiorini, G, Forte, L, Galasso, G, Gestri, G, Gigante, D, Gottschlich, G, Gubellini, L, Hofmann, N, Lastrucci, L, Lonati, M, Lorenz, R, Lunardi, L, Magrini, S, Mainetti, A, Maiorca, G, Mereu, G, Messa Ballarin, Rt, Minuto, L, Mossini, S, Musarella, Cm, Nimis, Pl, Passalacqua, Ng, Peccenini, S, Petriglia, B, Podda, L, Potenza, G, Ravetto Enri, S, Roma-Marzio, F, Rosati, L, Ruggero, A, Spampinato, G, Stinca, A, Tiburtini, M, Tietto, C, Tomaselli, V, Turcato, C, Viciani, D, Wagensommer, Rp, and Nepi, C

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Endemic, Floristic data, Italy, Nomenclature, Flora, Nomenclature, Zoology, Floristic data, Plant Science, Biology, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, lcsh:QK1-989, Endemic, Italy, lcsh:Botany, Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes to the Italian administrative regions for taxa in the genera Ajuga, Chamaemelum, Clematis, Convolvulus, Cytisus, Deschampsia, Eleocharis, Epipactis, Euphorbia, Groenlandia, Hedera, Hieracium, Hydrocharis, Jacobaea, Juncus, Klasea, Lagurus, Leersia, Linum, Nerium, Onopordum, Persicaria, Phlomis, Polypogon, Potamogeton, Securigera, Sedum, Soleirolia, Stachys, Umbilicus, Valerianella, and Vinca. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as Suppl. material 1.

Published
2019

8. Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 5

Author

Manuaela Martino, Giuseppina Chianese, Giuliano Mereu, Enrico Banfi, Giacomo Calvia, Francesco Falcinelli, Giacomo Mei, Liliana Bernardo, Nicola M. G. Ardenghi, Eva Del Vico, Chiara Nepi, Gianniantonio Domina, Gianmaria Bonari, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Nicola Olivieri, Viviana Cavallaro, Domenico Gargano, Lorenzo Peruzzi, F Mantino, Filippo Scafidi, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Gaetano Pazienza, Luigi Forte, L. Facioni, Adriano Stinca, Fabio Conti, Giovanni Buccomino, Anna Scoppola, Emilio Di Gristina, Francesca Carruggio, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Domina, Gianniantonio, Ardenghi, Nicola M.G., Banfi, Enrico, Bernardo, Liliana, Bonari, Gianmaria, Buccomino, Giovanni, Calvia, Giacomo, Carruggio, Francesca, Cavallaro, Viviana, Chianese, Giuseppina, Conti, Fabio, Facioni, Laura, Del Vico, Eva, Di Gristina, Emilio, Falcinelli, Francesco, Forte, Luigi, Gargano, Domenico, Mantino, Francesca, Martino, Manuela, Mei, Giacomo, Mereu, Giuliano, Olivieri, Nicola, Passalacqua, Nicodemo G., Pazienza, Gaetano, Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Roma-Marzio, Francesco, Scafidi, Filippo, Scoppola, Anna, Stinca, Adriano, and Nepi, Chiara

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Flora, biology, Campanula, Nomenclature, Settore BIO/02 - Botanica Sistematica, Floristic data, Plant Science, biology.organism_classification, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, lcsh:QK1-989, Helianthemum, Italy, Centaurea, Arabis, Lysimachia, lcsh:Botany, Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata, Botany, Chaerophyllum, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 010606 plant biology & botany, Crocus
Abstract

In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records and confirmations to the Italian administrative regions for taxa in the genera Allium, Arabis, Campanula, Centaurea, Chaerophyllum, Crocus, Dactylis, Dianthus, Festuca, Galanthus, Helianthemum, Lysimachia, Milium, Pteris, and Quercus. Nomenclature and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrections are provided as supplementary material.

Published
2018

9. Contribution to the floristic knowledge of eastern Irpinia and Vulture-Melfese area (Campania and Basilicata, southern Italy)

Author

Fabrizio Bartolucci, A. Tilia, Paola Fortini, Liliana Bernardo, Daniela Bouvet, Rossella Marcucci, Riccardo Pennesi, C. Gangale, Anna Scoppola, Giuseppina Chianese, I. Catalano, G. Caruso, M. Villani, Giampiero Ciaschetti, R. Di Pietro, Giovanni Astuti, Simonetta Fascetti, E. Lattanzi, G. D. Cennamo, Leonardo Rosati, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Vito Antonio Romano, Gerardo Salerno, Emanuela Carli, Simonetta Peccenini, Laura Cancellieri, Maria Rita Lapenna, Maria Ravo, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Gianmaria Bonari, Enrico V. Perrino, Adriano Stinca, Giuseppe D’Auria, Fabio Conti, Stinca, A, Chianese, G, D’Auria, G, Fascetti, S, Ravo, M, Romano, Va, Salerno, G, Astuti, G, Bartolucci, F, Bernardo, L, Bonari, G, Bouvet, D, Cancellieri, L, Carli, E, Caruso, G, Catalano, I, Cennamo, Gd, Ciaschetti, G, Conti, F, DI PIETRO, R, Fortini, P, Gangale, C, Lapenna, Mr, Lattanzi, E, Marcucci, R, Peccenini, S, Pennesi, R, Perrino, Ev, Peruzzi, L, ROMA-MARZIO, F, Scoppola, A, Tilia, A, Villani, M, and Rosati, L

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Botanists, Alien species, Plant Science, Southern Apennines, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Floristics, lcsh:Botany, biology.animal, Endemics, Herbaria, Italian vascular flora, New floristic records, Plant diversity, Endemism, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Vulture, biology, Ecology, lcsh:QK1-989, Herbarium, Geography, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

In order to improve the floristic knowledge of the Italian territory, we report the inventory of the taxa collected during the annual field trip of the working group for Floristics, Systematics and Evolution of the Italian Botanical Society held in 2015 in eastern Irpinia and Vulture-Melfese area (South Italy). The investigated territories are located in southern Apennines, along the border between the Campania and Basilicata administrative regions. These areas are scarcely known in terms of vascular flora. The floristic samplings were performed in 19 sites selected as representative of the local environmental diversity as regards to climate, litho-morphology and land-use. The research led to the identification of 4,137 specimens of vascular plants, belonging to 815 species and subspecies, 399 genera, and 85 families. Among these taxa, 42 were endemic to Italy, 38 were included in the IUCN Red List of the Italian Flora, 28 were alien and 5 were cryptogenic in Campania and/or Basilicata administrative regions. Two taxa, Aquilegia coerulea (casual alien, native to North America) and Lolium × boucheanum (native), were found to be new for Italy. On the basis of the available floristic literature the first one is also to be considered new for the European flora. At regional scale, we have found 18 taxa new for the Campania and 15 new for the Basilicata region. Finally, 10 taxa were confirmed for Campania. Data obtained during this study, confirmed the important role of a collaborative approach among botanists and the great relevance of these territories for plant diversity.

Published
2019

10. Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 8

Author

Giuseppe Fenu, Simone Orsenigo, Maria Letizia Gargano, Liliana Bernardo, A. De Agostini, Pierluigi Cortis, Milena Lussu, Domenico Gargano, C. Gangale, Robert P. Wagensommer, Enrico V. Perrino, R. Calvo, Saverio Sciandrello, and Pietro Medagli

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, threats, conservation, extinction risk, Plant Science, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, lcsh:QK1-989, Fishery, Geography, IUCN protocol, lcsh:Botany, IUCN Red List, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of four vascular plants according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the assessment of Ophrys normanii J.J.Wood at global level, and the regional assessment of Genista anglica L., Helianthemum lippii (L.) Dum.Cours., and Scrophularia lucida L. (Italy).

Published
2019

11. Monitoring biomass in two heterogeneous mountain pasture communities by image based 3D point cloud derived predictors

Author

Liliana Bernardo, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Simona Aiello, and Domenico Gargano

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Point cloud, General Decision Sciences, 010501 environmental sciences, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Pasture, Non-destructive biomass measurements, Proxy (climate), Pasture community, Ecosystem, Biomass, Coefficient of density, QH540-549.5, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Ecology, Structure from Motion, Habitat, Photogrammetry, Conservation status, Environmental science, Physical geography, Habitats Directive, Image based
Abstract

Primary productivity is a robust indicator of ecosystem functioning because of its close relationships with the stability of the ecological systems. In ecological research, the above ground biomass (AGB) is the most commonly used proxy of primary productivity. However, despite their ecological relevance, the estimates of primary productivity are not addressed by current protocols for monitoring the conservation status of the habitats of Community interest. In this paper, we analyse the accuracy of AGB measurements obtained by image-derived 3D reconstructions of two contrasting mountain grasslands listed as habitats of Community interest in the Annex I of the Habitats Directive. More specifically, we compared the accuracy of the AGB estimates provided by four models, based on four different predictors (height, volume, volume adjusted, and cover volume), in order to evaluate their robustness against within- and between-community heterogeneity. Our study revealed that AGB measures computed from 3D vegetation reconstructions can be an effective way to evaluate primary productivity in herbaceous communities with complex structure and composition patterns. In particular, the vegetation height showed to have the highest correlation with direct AGB measurements. However, the vegetation volume, once adjusted by the coefficient of density, resulted to be the most effective proxy due to the lowest error level. Therefore, such a parameter could be routinely used as a non-destructive indicator for monitoring habitats of particular conservation concern. As a major limitation for this approach, we detected some loss of predictivity power at very low productivity rates.

Published
2021

12. Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 2

Author

Gabriele Galasso, Gianluca Larroux, Enrico V. Perrino, Daniele Viciani, C. Gangale, Bruno Foggi, Giacomo Calvia, Robert P. Wagensommer, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Ilda Vagge, Matilde Gennai, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Mauro Fois, Rodolfo Gentili, Simone Orsenigo, Sandra Citterio, Giuseppe Fenu, Domenico Gargano, Dimitar Uzunov, Liliana Bernardo, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Orsenigo, S, Fenu, G, Bacchetta, G, Bernardo, L, Calvia, G, Citterio, S, Foggi, B, Fois, M, Gangale, C, Galasso, G, Gargano, D, Gennai, M, Gentili, R, Larroux, G, Perrino, E, Peruzzi, L, Roma Marzio, F, Uzunov, D, Vagge, I, Viciani, D, and Wagensommer, R

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, threats, extinction risk, Plant Science, Conservation, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, lcsh:QK1-989, 010601 ecology, Fishery, Geography, IUCN protocol, lcsh:Botany, Conservation, extinction risk, IUCN protocol, threats, IUCN Red List, Conservation, extinction risk, IUCN protocol, threats, plants, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Threat
Abstract

In this contribution the conservation status assessment of six plant species according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the assessment at global level of Charybdis glaucophylla Bacch., Brullo, D’Emerico, Pontec. & Salmeri, Euphorbia nicaeensis All. subsp. japygica (Ten.) Arcang., Hieracium australe Fr. subsp. australe, Limonium multiforme Pignatti, Onosma helvetica Boiss. em. Teppner subsp. lucana (Lacaita) Peruzzi, Aquaro & Cesca and the assessment at national level (Italy) of Lathyrus laxiflorus (Desf.) Kuntze subsp. laxiflorus.

Published
2016

13. Distribution and taxonomy of the Italian clovers belonging to Trifolium sect. Vesicastrum subsect. Mystillus (Fabaceae)

Author

Liliana Bernardo, E. Lattanzi, and Anna Scoppola

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, 0301 basic medicine, Ecology, new records, Plant Science, Fabaceae, Biology, Sect, 01 natural sciences, Central and southern Italy, lcsh:QK1-989, 03 medical and health sciences, 030104 developmental biology, identification key, clovers, Trifolium subsect. Mystillus, lcsh:Botany, Botany, Taxonomy (biology), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

In this paper, we focused our attention on the taxonomy and distribution in Italy of taxa belonging to Trifolium sect. Vesicastrum subsect. Mystillus. A short description of these closely related clovers, based on the study of fresh plant material, revision of herbarium specimens, and analysis of the relevant literature, is provided. Diagnostic features were highlighted by means of high-resolution digital images and, accordingly, an identification key is given. Trifolium spumosum, T. vesiculosum, T. mutabile and T. setiferum are reported to be distributed throughout Italy. We have updated the Italian distribution of the first three species by providing new occurrences from Tuscany, Umbria, Campania, Basilicata, and Calabria and by correcting previous references. The current presence of T. multistriatum in southern Italy is confirmed by our study, while T. setiferum must be excluded from the flora of Sicily. The study resulted in five new regional occurrences and 16 changes of presence status. Finally, intermediate forms between T. vesiculosum, T. multistriatum and T. mutabile were found both in living material and in the revised herbarium specimens.

Published
2016

14. Pollen-based reconstruction of Holocene vegetation and climate in southern Italy: the case of Lago Trifoglietti

Author

Sébastien Joannin, Boris Vannière, Odile Peyron, Elisabetha Brugiapaglia, Michel Magny, Liliana Bernardo, Simon Goring, J.-L. de Beaulieu, Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi del Molise, Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR237-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università della Calabria [Arcavacata di Rende] (Unical), Dpt of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, ANR-07-BLAN-0009,LAMA,Holocene changes in environment and climate, and history of human societies in Central Mediterranean as reflected by LAke and MArine records(2007), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement ( LCE ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale ( IMBE ), Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse ( UAPV ) -Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR237-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Università della Calabria [Arcavacata di Rende] ( Unical ), University of Wisconsin-Madison [Madison], ANR-07-BLAN-0009,LAMA,Holocene changes in environment and climate, and history of human societies in Central Mediterranean as reflected by LAke and MArine records ( 2007 ), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), and Università degli Studi del Molise = University of Molise (UNIMOL)

Subjects
010506 paleontology, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Stratigraphy, lcsh:Environmental protection, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Climate change, medicine.disease_cause, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, pollen, palaeoclimatic reconstruction, holocene vegetation, Altitude, lcsh:Environmental pollution, law, Pollen, medicine, lcsh:TD169-171.8, Radiocarbon dating, Holocene, lcsh:Environmental sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, lcsh:GE1-350, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Vegetation, 15. Life on land, [ SDE.MCG ] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Boreal, 13. Climate action, [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, Climatology, lcsh:TD172-193.5, [ SDU.STU.CL ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, Geology, Chronology
Abstract

A high-resolution pollen record from Lago Trifoglietti in Calabria (southern Italy) provides new insights into the paleoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic changes which characterise the Holocene period in the southern Italy. The chronology is based on 11 AMS radiocarbon dates from terrestrial organic material. The Holocene history of the vegetation cover shows the persistence of an important and relatively stable Fagus forest present over that entire period, offering a rare example of a beech woodstand able to withstand climate changes for more than 11 000 yr. Probably in relation with early Holocene dry climate conditions which affected southern Italy, the Trifoglietti pollen record supports a southward delay in thermophyllous forest expansion dated to ca. 13 500 cal BP at Monticchio, ca. 11 000 cal BP at Trifoglietti, and finally ca. 9800 cal BP in Sicily. Regarding the human impact history, the Trifoglietti pollen record shows only poor imprints of agricultural activities and anthopogenic indicators, apart from those indicating pastoralism activities beneath forest cover. The selective exploitation of Abies appears to have been the strongest human impact on the Trifoglietti surroundings. On the basis of (1) a specific ratio between hygrophilous and terrestrial taxa, and (2) the Modern Analogue Technique, the pollen data collected at Lago Trifoglietti led to the establishment of two palaeoclimatic records tracing changes in (1) lake depth and (2) annual precipitation. On a millennial scale, these records give evidence of increasing moisture from ca. 11 000 to ca. 9400 cal BP and maximum humidity from ca. 9400 to ca. 6200 cal BP, prior to a general trend towards the drier climate conditions that have prevailed up to the present. In addition, several successive centennial-scale oscillations appear to have punctuated the entire Holocene. The identification of a cold dry event around 11 300 cal BP, responsible for a marked decline in timberline altitude and possibly equivalent to the PBO, remains to be confirmed by further investigations verifying both chronology and magnitude. Two cold and possibly drier Boreal oscillations developed at ca. 9800 and 9200 cal BP. At Trifoglietti, the 8.2 kyr event corresponds to the onset of cooler and drier climatic conditions which persisted until ca. 7500 cal BP. Finally, the second half of the Holocene was characterised by dry phases at ca. 6100–5200, 4400–3500, and 2500–1800 cal BP, alternating with more humid phases at ca. 5200–4400 and ca. 3500–2500 cal BP. Considered as a whole, these millennial-scale trends and centennial-scale climatic oscillations support contrasting patterns of palaeohydrological changes recognised between the north- and south-central Mediterranean.

Published
2018

15. Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 6

Author

Chiara Steffanini, Gaetano Pazienza, A. Sani, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Adriano Stinca, Francesco Saverio D’Amico, Luigi Forte, Alessandro Ruggero, Giuliano Mereu, Maurizio Trenchi, Giacomo Mei, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Francesca Carruggio, Pietro Medagli, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Liliana Bernardo, Giovanni Maiorca, Domenico Gargano, Franco Caldararo, Gabriele Galasso, Giancarlo Tondi, Domenico Saulle, Sara Magrini, Massimiliano Rempicci, Günter Gottschlich, Francesco Di Carlo, Massimo Terzi, Daniele Viciani, Filippo Prosser, Chiara Nepi, Gianniantonio Domina, Nicola Olivieri, Danio Miserocchi, Alessandro Cavagna, Francesco Festi, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Robert P. Wagensommer, Flavio Mennini, Giovanni Buccomino, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Nicola M. G. Ardenghi, Sergio Buono, Giacomo Calvia, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Galasso G., Domina G., Alessandrini A., Ardenghi N.M.G., Bacchetta G., Ballelli S., Bartolucci F., Brundu G., Buono S., Busnardo G., Calvia G., Capece P., D'Antraccoli M., Di Nuzzo L.D., Fanfarillo E., Ferretti G., Guarino R., Iamonico D., Iberite M., Latini M., Lazzaro L., Lonati M., Lozano V., Magrini S., Mei G., Mereu G., Moro A., Mugnai M., Nicolella G., Nimis P.L., Olivieri N., Pennesi R., Peruzzi L., Podda L., Probo M., Prosser F., Enri S.R., Roma-Marzio F., Ruggero A., Scafidi F., Stinca A., Nepi C., Ardenghi N.M., Bernardo L., Buccomino G., Caldararo F., Carruggio F., Cavagna A., D'Amico F.S., Di Carlo F., Festi F., Forte L., Gargano D., Gottschlich G., Maiorca G., Medagli P., Mennini F., Miserocchi D., Passalacqua N.G., Pazienza G., Rempicci M., Sani A., Saulle D., Steffanini C., Terzi M., Tondi G., Trenchi M., Viciani D., Wagensommer R.P., Galasso, Gabriele, Domina, Gianniantonio, Alessandrini, Alessandro, Ardenghi, Nicola M. G., Bacchetta, Gianluigi, Ballelli, Sandro, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Brundu, Giuseppe, Buono, Sergio, Busnardo, Giuseppe, Calvia, Giacomo, Capece, Paolo, D’Antraccoli, Marco, Di Nuzzo, Luca, Fanfarillo, Emanuele, Ferretti, Giulio, Guarino, Riccardo, Iamonico, Duilio, Iberite, Mauro, Latini, Marta, Lazzaro, Lorenzo, Lonati, Michele, Lozano, Vanessa, Magrini, Sara, Mei, Giacomo, Mereu, Giuliano, Moro, Andrea, Mugnai, Michele, Nicolella, Gianluca, Nimis, Pierluigi, Olivieri, Nicola, Pennesi, Riccardo, Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Podda, Lina, Probo, Massimiliano, Prosser, Filippo, Ravetto Enri, Simone, Roma-Marzio, Francesco, Ruggero, Alessandro, Scafidi, Filippo, Stinca, Adriano, and Nepi, Chiara

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Flora, alien specie, Alien species, Plant Science, Alien, Biology, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Plant science, floristic data, italian flora, lcsh:Botany, Botany, Nomenclature, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Alien specie, alien species, Italy, Ecology, Floristic data, lcsh:QK1-989, Geography, Alien species, floristic data, Italy, Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata, Floristic data, Italy, nomenclature, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions of taxa in the generaAcalypha,Acer,Canna,Cardamine,Cedrus,Chlorophytum,Citrus,Cyperus,Epilobium,Eucalyptus,Euphorbia,Gamochaeta,Hesperocyparis,Heteranthera,Lemna,Ligustrum,Lycium,Nassella,Nothoscordum,Oenothera,Osteospermum,Paspalum,Pontederia,Romulea,Rudbeckia,Salvia,Sesbania,Setaria,Sicyos,Styphnolobium,Symphyotrichum, andTradescantia. Nomenclature and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as supplementary material.

Published
2018

16. It's a long way to the top: Plant species diversity in the transition from managed to old-growth forests

Author

Carlo Blasi, Liliana Bernardo, Francesco Ripullone, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Aldo Schettino, Sabina Burrascano, C. Gangale, Luca Pelle, Francesco Maria Sabatini, Marco Borghetti, Anna Rita Rivelli, Emanuela Carli, Giuseppe Luzzi, Tiziana Gentilesca, Antonino Siclari, Michele Colangelo, Domenico Gargano, Dimitar Uzunov, Burrascano S., Ripullone F., Bernardo L., Borghetti M., Carli E., Colangelo M., Gangale C., Gargano D., Gentilesca T., Luzzi G., Passalacqua N., Pelle L., Rivelli A.R., Sabatini F.M., Schettino A., Siclari A., Uzunov D., and Blasi C.

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Vascular plant, beta-diversity, deadwood, fagus sylvatica, national park, tree species richness, understorey, tree species richne, Fagus sylvatica, Beta diversity, Plant Science, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Beech, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Ecology, biology, Species diversity, Understory, Old-growth forest, biology.organism_classification, National Park, Species richness, human activities, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

Questions Do vascular plant species richness and β-diversity differ between managed and structurally complex unmanaged stands? To what extent do species richness and β-diversity relate to forest structural attributes and heterogeneity?. Location Five National Parks in central and southern Italy. Methods We sampled vascular plant species composition and forest structural attributes in eight unmanaged temperate mesic forest stands dominated or co-dominated by beech, and in eight comparison stands managed as high forests with similar environmental features. We compared plant species richness, composition and β-diversity, across pairs of stands (unmanaged vs. managed) using Generalized Linear Mixed (effect) Models (GLMMs). β-diversity was quantified both at the scale of each pair of stands using plot-to-plot dissimilarity matrices (species turnover), and across the whole dataset, considering the distance in the multivariate species space of individual plots from the centroid of the plots within the same stand (compositional heterogeneity). We modelled the relationship between species diversity (richness and β-diversity) and forest structural heterogeneity and individual structural variables using GLMMs and Multiple Regression on Distance Matrices. Results Species composition differed significantly between managed and unmanaged stands, but not richness and β-diversity. We found weak evidence that plant species richness increased with increasing levels of structural heterogeneity and canopy diversification. At the scale of individual stands, species turnover was explained by different variables in distinct stands, with variables related to deadwood quantity and quality being selected most often. Conversely, we did not find support to the hypothesis that compositional heterogeneity varies as a function of forest structural characteristics at the scale of the whole dataset. Conclusions Structurally complex unmanaged stands have a distinct herb-layer species composition from that of mature stands in similar environmental conditions; nevertheless, we did not find significantly higher levels of vascular plant species richness and β-diversity in unmanaged stands. β-diversity was related to patterns of deadwood accumulation, while for species richness the evidence that it increases with increasing levels of canopy diversification was weak. These results suggest that emulating natural disturbance, and favoring deadwood accumulation and canopy diversification may benefit some, but not all facets of plant species diversity in Apennine beech forests. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Published
2018

17. An updated checklist of the vascular flora native to Italy

Author

Bruno Foggi, Pietro Medagli, S. Scortegagna, A. Alessandrini, B. Pierini, Alberto Selvaggi, Edoardo Martinetto, Simonetta Fascetti, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Lorenzo Cecchi, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Liliana Bernardo, Filippo Prosser, Robert P. Wagensommer, D. Marchetti, Sandro Ballelli, Duilio Iamonico, G. Barberis, T. Wilhalm, Riccardo Pennesi, Antonella Albano, Lorenzo Peruzzi, A. Soldano, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Giuseppe Fenu, Adriano Stinca, L. Gubellini, Annalisa Santangelo, R. Masin, Francesco Festi, Mauro Iberite, Anna Scoppola, Livio Poldini, R. Di Pietro, Nicola M. G. Ardenghi, Simonetta Peccenini, Enrico Banfi, Günter Gottschlich, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Lorenzo Gallo, Federico Selvi, Daniela Bouvet, E. Lattanzi, Pedro Jiménez-Mejías, Giovanni Astuti, Francesco Maria Raimondo, Leonardo Rosati, Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, M. Bovio, Fabio Conti, Bartolucci, F., Peruzzi, L., Galasso, G., Albano, A., Alessandrini, A., Ardenghi, N. M. G., Astuti, G., Bacchetta, G., Ballelli, S., Banfi, E., Barberis, G., Bernardo, L., Bouvet, D., Bovio, M., Cecchi, L., Di Pietro, R., Domina, G., Fascetti, S., Fenu, G., Festi, F., Foggi, B., Gallo, L., Gottschlich, G., Gubellini, L., Iamonico, D., Iberite, M., Jimenez-Mejias, P., Lattanzi, E., Marchetti, D., Martinetto, E., Masin, R. R., Medagli, P., Passalacqua, N. G., Peccenini, S., Pennesi, R., Pierini, B., Poldini, L., Prosser, F., Raimondo, F. M., Roma-Marzio, F., Rosati, L., Santangelo, A., Scoppola, A., Scortegagna, S., Selvaggi, A., Selvi, F., Soldano, A., Stinca, A., Wagensommer, R. P., Wilhalm, T., Conti, F., Jiménez-Mejías, P., Bartolucci, F, Peruzzi, L, Galasso, G, Albano, A, Alessandrini, A, Ardenghi, Nmg, Astuti, G, Bacchetta, G, Ballelli, S, Banfi, E, Barberis, G, Bernardo, L, Bouvet, D, Bovio, M, Cecchi, L, Di Pietro, R, Domina, G, Fascetti, S, Fenu, G, Festi, F, Foggi, B, Gallo, L, Gottschlich, G, Gubellini, L, Iamonico, D, Iberite, M, Jiménez-Mejías, P, Lattanzi, E, Marchetti, D, Martinetto, E, Masin, Rr, Medagli, P, Passalacqua, Ng, Peccenini, S, Pennesi, R, Pierini, B, Poldini, L, Prosser, F, Raimondo, Fm, Roma-Marzio, F, Rosati, L, Santangelo, A, Scoppola, A, Scortegagna, A, Selvaggi, A, Selvi, F, Soldano, A, Stinca, A, Wagensommer, Rp, Wilhalm, T & Conti F, Ardenghi, N.M.G., Masin, R.R., Passalacqua, N.G., Raimondo, F.M., and Wagensommer, R.P.

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Endemism, floristic diversity, Italy, Mediterranean flora, taxonomy, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, endemism, mediterranean flora, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, Introduced species, Alien, Subspecies, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Endemism, floristic diversity, Italy, Mediterranean flora, taxonomy, biology, Ecology, Settore BIO/02 - Botanica Sistematica, Endemism floristic diversity, biology.organism_classification, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematic, Checklist, Taxon, Geography, Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata, Taxonomy (biology), Fern, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

An updated inventory of the vascular flora alien to Italy, providing details on the occurrence at regional level, is presented. The checklist includes 1597 species, subspecies, and hybrids, distributed in 725 genera and 152 families; 2 taxa are lycophytes, 11 ferns and fern allies, 33 gymnosperms, and 1551 angiosperms. 157 taxa are archaeophytes and 1440 neophytes. The alien taxa currently established in Italy are 791 (570 naturalized and 221 invasive), while 705 taxa are casual aliens, 4 are not assessed, 7 are of unknown regional distribution, 47 have not been confirmed in recent times, 3 are considered extinct or possibly extinct in the country, and 40 are doubtfully occurring in Italy. This checklist allows to establish an up-to-date number (9792) of taxa constituting the whole (native and alien) Italian flora.

Published
2018

18. Contribution to the floristic knowledge of the Maddalena Mountains (Basilicata and Campania, southern Italy)

Author

Daniela Bouvet, G. Caruso, Giovanni Salerno, Francesco Faraoni, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Liliana Bernardo, Adriano Stinca, Chiara Totta, P. Lavezzo, Simonetta Peccenini, Simonetta Fascetti, Adriano Sciandra, Laura Cancellieri, Enrico V. Perrino, E. Lattanzi, Fabio Conti, Vito Antonio Romano, Enrico Banfi, A. Soldano, Leonardo Rosati, Gabriele Galasso, Rosati, L, Romano, Va, Bartolucci, F, Bernardo, L, Bouvet, D, Cancellieri, L, Caruso, G, Conti, F, Faraoni, F, Banfi, E, Galasso, G, Lattanzi, E, Lavezzo, P, Peccenini, S, Perrino, Ev, Salerno, G, Sciandra, A, Soldano, A, Stinca, A, Totta, C, and Fascetti, S

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, vascular flora, New floristic records, Forestry, Plant Science, regional flora, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Floristics, lcsh:QK1-989, southern Apennines, Geography, lcsh:Botany, New floristic records, regional flora, southern Apennines, vascular flora, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

The inventory of the taxa collected during the annual field trip of the working group for Floristics Systematics and Evolution of the Italian Botanical Society is reported. It was held in 2013 along the Maddalena Mountains a mountain ridge of the southern Apennines located between the Basilicata and Campania administrative regions (southern Italy) considered as being poorly characterized in terms of vascular flora. A total of 701 units belonging to 74 plant families were recorded including two varieties and four hybrids.Thirty-five taxa resulted endemic to Italy and only 11 alien species were detected while 36 taxa are new or confirmed for the regional floras of Basilicata and/or Campania. In particular 12 taxa are new for Basilicata while four are confirmed. Regarding Campania 14 taxa resulted new for the regional flora and five were confirmed.

Published
2017

19. Local shifts in floral biotic interactions in habitat edges and their effect on quantity and quality of plant offspring

Author

Giuseppe Fenu, Liliana Bernardo, and Domenico Gargano

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Mutualism (biology), plant mating systems, Herbivore, Pollination, Ecology, edge effect, fungi, food and beverages, Plant Science, Biology, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Plant reproduction, pollen limitation, Habitat, Abundance (ecology), Pollinator, Dianthus, Self-pollination, dichogamy, self-fertilization, 010606 plant biology & botany, Research Article, inbreeding depression
Abstract

Habitat variations influence the richness and composition of insect guilds. This affects plant reproduction, which depends upon functional relationships with insects, responsible for both pollination and predation. Major consequences can occur in composite landscapes, where forest fragmentation produces transition habitats showing a great heterogeneity over short-spatial scales. We studied herbivory and pollination in an edge-specialist carnation over a forest-open habitat gradient. Visiting insects varied over the gradient, affecting herbivory and pollination rates, and offspring quality and quantity. Our findings emphasize the role of plant-insect interactions in tuning plant fitness in edge habitats, and provide guidelines for managing such ecological contexts., Spatial shifts in insect fauna due to ecological heterogeneity can severely constrain plant reproduction. Nonetheless, data showing effects of insect visit patterns and intensity of mutualistic and/or antagonistic plant–insect interactions on plant reproduction over structured ecological gradients remain scarce. We investigated how changes in flower-visitor abundance, identity and behaviour over a forest-open habitat gradient affect plant biotic interactions, and quantitative and qualitative fitness in the edge-specialist Dianthus balbisii. Composition and behaviour of the insects visiting flowers of D. balbisii strongly varied over the study gradient, influencing strength and patterns of plant biotic interactions (i.e. herbivory and pollination likelihood). Seed set comparison in free- and manually pollinated flowers suggested spatial variations in the extent of quantitative pollen limitation, which appeared more pronounced at the gradient extremes. Such variations were congruent to patterns of flower visit and plant biotic interactions. The analyses on seed and seedling viability evidenced that spatial variation in amount and type of pollinators, and frequency of herbivory affected qualitative fitness of D. balbisii by influencing selfing and outcrossing rates. Our work emphasizes the role of plant biotic interactions as a fine-scale mediator of plant fitness in ecotones, highlighting that optimal plant reproduction can take place into a restricted interval of the ecological gradients occurring at forest edges. Reducing the habitat complexity typical of such transition contexts can threat edge-adapted plants.

Published
2017

20. Lateglacial-Holocene abrupt vegetation changes at Lago Trifoglietti in Calabria, Southern Italy: The setting of ecosystems in a refugial zone

Author

Giovanni Zanchetta, Liliana Bernardo, Sabine Wulf, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Frédéric Guiter, Odile Peyron, Elisabetta Brugiapaglia, Damien Rius, Sébastien Joannin, Agnès Stock, Michel Magny, Julien Didier, Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale ( IMBE ), Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse ( UAPV ) -Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR237-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Dipartimento de Scienze Animali, Vegetali e dell' Ambiente, Università del Molise, Laboratoire Chrono-environnement ( LCE ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Dipartimiento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Laboratoire de chrono-écologie ( LCE ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR237-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226, University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Università degli Studi del Molise = University of Molise (UNIMOL), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
010506 paleontology, Archeology, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Evolution, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, 01 natural sciences, Lago Trifoglietti, [ SDE ] Environmental Sciences, Behavior and Systematics, Ice age, [ SDU.ENVI ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, Glacial period, Younger Dryas, Stadial, Glacial refuges, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Holocene, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Archeology (arts and humanities), Ecology, Temperate forest, Calabrian Mountains, Lake sediments, LGI-early Holocene, Pollen record, Preboreal oscillation, Tephrochronology, Geology, 15. Life on land, [ SDE.MCG ] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Deciduous, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], [SDE]Environmental Sciences, [ SDU ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]
Abstract

International audience; Retrospective science such as palaeoecology deeply depends on the preservation of archives in sensitive places. As an example, mountains of medium altitude from Mediterranean peninsulas have long been identified by biogeographers as refuges zones allowing the survival of European temperate taxa during the ice ages, but archives to validate this hypothesis are scarce, especially in Southern Italy. Here we present a new sequence from Lago Trifoglietti (1048 m a.s.l.) in the Calabrian Mountains, which covers the Late Glacial Interstadial (LGI, corresponding to the Bolling€-Allerod€ period in northern-central Europe) and the transition to the Holocene. The independent chronology based on seven radiocarbon dates is supported by the evidence of three tephra layers already identified in other regional sequences. During the LGI, besides the high diversity of non arboreal pollen grains, a great number of pollens of temperate forest trees are present or abundant (mostly deciduous oaks and fir). These assemblages suggest that the site was above but not far from the upper limit of diversified woodland stands. They confirm a local survival during the last glacial. The Younger Dryas is not marked by major changes, and oak percentages are even higher, suggesting a resilient expansion at lower altitude. Surprisingly the site remains above the timberline until an aridity crisis centered at 11,100 cal 14 C yr PB, which is correlated with the Pre-boreal Oscillation (PBO). This event is immediately followed by the local settlement of a dense fir and beech forest around the lake. A comparison with other Italian key sequences aims at explaining the climate forcing factors that governed this original vegetation dynamic. Further investigations using additional proxies are needed for a more robust climate reconstruction. (O. Peyron), l.bernardo@unical.it (L. Bernardo), Julien.Didier@ univ-fcomte.fr (J. Didier), agnes.stock@univ-fcomte.fr (A. Stock), Damien.Rius@ univ-fcomte.fr (D. Rius), Michel.Magny@univ-fcomte.fr (M. Magny).

Published
2017

21. Footprint of the eastern euroasian past in Italian populations of Cryptotaenia thomasii (Ten.) DC

Author

Liliana Bernardo, Anna Maria Palermo, Giuseppe Pellegrino, and Domenico Gargano

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Fragmentation (reproduction), Ecology, Cryptotaenia thomasii, Plant Science, Biology, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Genetic architecture, Cryptotaenia flahaultii, Restriction enzyme, Evolutionary biology, Genetic structure, Conservation status, Original Article, Genetic variability, Endemism, Ribosomal DNA, Apiaceae, SNPs, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

Background The knowledge of the genetic architecture of closely related species and/or populations of a single species can be very useful to shed light on the processes that led to their current distributions. The present study provides a preliminary evaluation of the conservation status of the populations of Cryptotaenia thomasii, a very narrow endemic species occurring in southern Italy. Previous studies showed that C. thomasii was phylogenetically closely related to C. flahaultii, endemic species of Caucasus, and to evaluate its conservation status and the genetic variability of plant species the internal transcribed spacers (ITSs) of nuclear ribosomal DNA were sequenced and the SNPs were analyzed. Results The restriction analysis of nrDNA with the restriction enzymes allowed to detect the presence of two single mutations (SNPs) among the sequences of two species. Our molecular analysis pointed out that C. thomasii and C. flahaultii, in spite of their geographical disjunction, show a sign of an ancient contact as an extreme case of geographical disjunction Italian-Caucasus. Conclusion From the evolutionary history of the species and its distribution pattern one can reconstruct a possible scenario with some hypotheses that explain the hypothetical ancestral area where the two species were in contact. We speculate the two species may have originated from fragmentation of a common ancestor widespread in the Western Palearctic zone and have survived in two separated refuge areas limited by important mountain systems. This hypothesis is supported by our molecular analysis, in fact, the analysis of SNPs showed that some C. thomasii populations retain the signs of an ancient link with C. flahaultii.

Published
2017

22. Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 3

Author

Filippo Prosser, Giovanni Maiorca, G. Faggi, Pietro Medagli, A. Alessandrini, Adriano Stinca, Francesco Saverio D’Amico, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Luigi Ghillani, Luigi Forte, Luciano Di Martino, Simona Casavecchia, Filippo Guzzon, Maria A. Crisanti, Fabio Conti, Marziano Pascale, Valter Di Cecco, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, M. Adorni, Doerte Harpke, Massimo Ricciardi, Nicola M. G. Ardenghi, Giovanni A. Baragliu, Daniele Viciani, Paolo Cauzzi, Sergio Picollo, Lorenzo Lastrucci, Francesco Falcinelli, Luciana Carotenuto, Massimo Terzi, Gabriele Galasso, Chiara Nepi, Gianniantonio Domina, Nicola Olivieri, R. Gasparri, Günter Gottschlich, Enrico Banfi, D. Marchetti, Alessio Bertolli, G Salerno, Liliana Bernardo, E. Lattanzi, Edoardo Biondi, Robert P. Wagensommer, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Domina, Gianniantonio, Adorni, Michele, Alessandrini, Alessandro, Ardenghi, Nicola M.G., Banfi, Enrico, Baragliu, Giovanni A., Bernardo, Liliana, Bertolli, Alessio, Biondi, Edoardo, Carotenuto, Luciana, Casavecchia, Simona, Cauzzi, Paolo, Conti, Fabio, Crisanti, Maria A., D'Amico, Francesco S., Di Cecco, Valter, Di Martino, Luciano, Faggi, Giorgio, Falcinelli, Francesco, Forte, Luigi, Galasso, Gabriele, Gasparri, Roberta, Ghillani, Luigi, Gottschlich, Günter, Guzzon, Filippo, Harpke, Doerte, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Lattanzi, Edda, Maiorca, Giovanni, Marchetti, Dino, Medagli, Pietro, Olivieri, Nicola, Pascale, Marziano, Passalacqua, Nicodemo G., Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Picollo, Sergio, Prosser, Filippo, Ricciardi, Massimo, Salerno, Giovanni, Stinca, Adriano, Terzi, Massimo, Viciani, Daniele, Wagensommer, Robert P., and Nepi, Chiara

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Settore BIO/02 - Botanica Sistematica, Floristic data, Italy, new combinations, nomenclature, new combinations, Floristic data, Plant Science, Biology, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, lcsh:QK1-989, Aquatic organisms, Italy, lcsh:Botany, Aquatic plant, Botany, Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata, Taxonomy (biology), nomenclature, Nomenclature, New combination, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

In this contribution new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, exclusions, and confirmations to the Italian administrative regions for taxa in the generaAsplenium,Bolboschoenus,Botrychium,Chamaerops,Crocus,Galeopsis,Grafia,Helosciadium,Hieracium,Juniperus,Leucanthemum,Lolium,Medicago,Phalaris,Piptatherum,Potamogeton,Salicornia,Salvia,Seseli,Silene,Spiraea,TorilisandVicia.Rhaponticoidescalabricais proposed assynonym novumofR.centaurium. Furthermore, new combinations in the generaGalatellaandLactucaare proposed.

Published
2017

23. At the intersection of cultural and natural heritage: Distribution and conservation of the type localities of Italian endemic vascular plants

Author

A. Croce, G. Barberis, Liliana Bernardo, Luisa Carta, Duilio Iamonico, Gabriella Vacca, Stefano Marsili, A Brunu, Adriano Stinca, Annalisa Santangelo, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Cristina Salmeri, Gianluca Iiriti, Antonella Albano, Elisabetta Scassellati, Giuseppe Brundu, Daniela Longo, Mauro Mariotti, Riccardo Pennesi, Robert P. Wagensommer, Mariacristina Villani, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Ignazio Camarda, A. Alessandrini, Pietro Medagli, Simonetta Peccenini, Salvatore Brullo, Fabio Conti, Enrico Banfi, Francesco Maria Raimondo, Gabriele Galasso, Gianniantonio Domina, M. Bovio, Mauro Iberite, Annalaura Pistarino, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Federico Selvi, Brundu, GIUSEPPE ANTONIO DOMENICO, Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Domina, Gianniantonio, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Galasso, Gabriele, Peccenini, Simonetta, Raimondo, Francesco Maria, Albano, Antonella, Alessandrini, Alessandro, Banfi, Enrico, Barberis, Giuseppina, Bernardo, Liliana, Bovio, Maurizio, Brullo, Salvatore, Brunu, Antonello, Camarda, Ignazio, Carta, Luisa, Conti, Fabio, Croce, Antonio, Iamonico, Duilio, Iberite, Mauro, Iiriti, Gianluca, Longo, Daniela, Marsili, Stefano, Medagli, Pietro, Mariotti, Mauro Giorgio, Pennesi, Riccardo, Pistarino, Annalaura, Salmeri, Cristina, Santangelo, Annalisa, Scassellati, Elisabetta, Selvi, Federico, Stinca, Adriano, Vacca, Gabriella, Villani, Mariacristina, Wagensommer, Robert Philipp, Passalacqua, Nicodemo Giuseppe, Brundu, G., Peruzzi, L., Domina, G., Bartolucci, F., Galasso, G., Peccenini, S., Raimondo, F., Albano, A., Alessandrini, A., Banfi, E., Barberis, G., Bernardo, L., Bovio, M., Brullo, S., Brunu, A., Camarda, I., Carta, L., Conti, F., Croce, A., Iamonico, D., Iberite, M., Iiriti, G., Longo, D., Marsili, S., Medagli, P., Mariotti, M., Pennesi, R., Pistarino, A., Salmeri, C., Santangelo, A., Scassellati, E., Selvi, F., Stinca, A., Vacca, G., Villani, M., Wagensommer, R., Passalacqua, N., Brundu, Giuseppe, Raimondo, F. M., Mariotti, M. G., Wagensommer, R. P., and Passalacqua, N. G.

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Mediterranean climate, Behavior and Systematic, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Evolution, Distribution (economics), Conservation, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Endemic, Type (biology), Endemics, Italian flora, Loci classici, Spatial analysis, Natural heritage, Resource management, Endemism, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Italian flora, Conservation, Endemics, Spatial analysis, Loci classici, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, business.industry, Settore BIO/02 - Botanica Sistematica, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematic, Geography, Important Plant Areas, Spatial analysi, Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata, Mainland, business
Abstract

We conducted a GIS spatial analysis with the aim of providing the first quantitative large-scale overview of the distribution patterns of 1536 type localities ( loci classici ) of 1216 Italian endemic vascular plants and their relationship with a set of descriptive variables. Whereas some variables were used to model the presence-absence distribution patterns of the type localities for the whole set of endemics as well as for the subset of narrow endemics, others (e.g., presence inside or outside protected areas and Italian Important Plant Areas) were considered with the purpose of assessing potential assets or risks for conservation. The largest number of type localities was found within the Mediterranean biogeographic region (1134), followed by the Alpine region (306) and Continental region (96). A total of 670 locations are located on islands, whereas 866 are located on the Italian mainland (139 and 124 in the case of narrow endemics, respectively). A large number of type localities are located in mountainous areas and along the coastline, which can be seen as a potential risk for conservation. On the contrary, we detected a positive correlation with the distance from roads, which might be considered to be an asset. Importantly, 1030 type localities fall inside protected areas, whereas 506 localities fall outside protected areas, with 259 of these unprotected localities on islands. We propose considering the results of the analysis of the distribution of type localities of Italian endemics to be a strategic tool for conservation planning and resource management. Application of plant micro-reserves and integration of diverse legislation tools are suggested to strengthen efforts and increase conservation success.

Published
2017

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