1. Proposals for improvement of Annex I of Directive 92/43/ EEC: Central Italy
- Author
-
Simona Casavecchia, Marina Allegrezza, Claudia Angiolini, Edoardo Biondi, Federica Bonini, Eva Del Vico, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Bruno Foggi, Daniela Gigante, Lorenzo Gianguzzi, Cesare Lasen, Simona Maccherini, Mauro Mariotti, Simone Pesaresi, Gianfranco Pirone, Livio Poldini, Federico Selvi, Roberto Venanzoni, Daniele Viciani, Marisa Vidali, Giampiero Ciaschetti, Casavecchia S., Allegrezza M., Angiolini C., Biondi E., Bonini F., del Vico E., Fanfarillo E., Foggi B., Gigante D., Gianguzzi L., Lasen C., Maccherini S., Mariotti M., Pesaresi S., Pirone G., Poldini L., Selvi F., Venanzoni R., Viciani D., Vidali M., and Ciaschetti G.
- Subjects
Badland ,Shrubby willow formations ,Plant Science ,badlands, calaminarian grasslands, freshwater vegetation, garrigues, meadows, neglected habitats, olive groves, shrubby willow formations, ultramafic plant communities, woods ,Neglected habitat ,SB1-1110 ,Garrigue ,Badlands ,Meadows ,QK900-989 ,Plant ecology ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Ecology ,Garrigues ,Plant culture ,Olive groves ,Forestry ,Ultramafic plant communitie ,Calaminarian grasslands ,Woods ,Shrubby willow formation ,Ultramafic plant communities ,Meadow ,Freshwater vegetation ,Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata ,Olive grove ,Neglected habitats ,Calaminarian grassland - Abstract
The main purpose of the 92/43/EEC Habitats Directive is to contribute to the conservation of biodiversity, understood as habitat types and species of the flora and fauna of the European Union. To achieve this goal, natural and semi-natural biodiversity as a whole must be recognized and included in its annexes. As for the conservation of biotopes, named habitat types, Italy is unfortunately lacking as it the Annex I does not include important ecosystems that are typical of its territory, rare for biogeographical reasons or threatened. Therefore, the opportunity to identify a first list of significant habitats for central Italy is discussed here. For each of the new proposed types (new habitats or new subtypes) a sheet has been prepared to highlight their salient characteristics. The new proposals concern seven habitat types and one subtype: sedge and reeds formations (Freshwater large sedge and reed beds), willow shrublands (Shrubby willow formations of river banks and fens), Apennine garrigues (Apennine hilly and montane garrigues), a new subtype of Annex I Habitat 6130 (Communities of herbaceous and dwarf shrub-suffrutescent plants of Italian ultramafic substrates), ancient olive groves ("Centuries-old olive groves" with evergreen Quercus spp. and arborescent matorral), secondary meadows (Italian submontane and montane pastured meadows dominated by Cynosurus cristatus), badlands (Pioneer halophilous and sub-halophilous communities of “calanchi” and “biancane” badlands) and hop-hornbeam woods (Italian-Balkan hop-hornbeam woods).
- Published
- 2021