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A first checklist of the alien-dominated vegetation in Italy

Authors :
Daniele Viciani
Marisa Vidali
Daniela Gigante
Rossano Bolpagni
Mariacristina Villani
Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta
Michele Adorni
Michele Aleffi
Marina Allegrezza
Claudia Angiolini
Silvia Assini
Simonetta Bagella
Gianmaria Bonari
Maurizio Bovio
Francesco Bracco
Giuseppe Brundu
Gabriella Buffa
Marco Caccianiga
Lucilla Carnevali
Simona Ceschin
Giampiero Ciaschetti
Annalena Cogoni
Valter Di Cecco
Bruno Foggi
Anna Rita Frattaroli
Piero Genovesi
Rodolfo Gentili
Lorenzo Lazzaro
Michele Lonati
Fernando Lucchese
Andrea Mainetti
Mauro Mariotti
Pietro Minissale
Bruno Paura
Mauro Pellizzari
Enrico Vito Perrino
Gianfranco Pirone
Laura Poggio
Livio Poldini
Silvia Poponessi
Irene Prisco
Filippo Prosser
Marta Puglisi
Leonardo Rosati
Alberto Selvaggi
Lucio Sottovia
Giovanni Spampinato
Angela Stanisci
Adriano Stinca
Roberto Venanzoni
Lorenzo Lastrucci
Source :
Plant Sociology, Vol 57, Iss 1, Pp 29-54 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Pensoft Publishers, 2020.

Abstract

This study provides a first step toward the knowledge of the alien-dominated and co-dominated plant communities present in Italy. The first ever checklist of the alien phytocoenoses described or reported in literature for the Italian territory has been compiled, produced by data-mining in national and local thematic literature. The resulting vegetation-type draft-list has been checked in the light of the most recent syntaxonomic documentation and updated with regards to syntaxonomy and nomenclature, with special reference to the frame proposed in the Italian Vegetation Prodrome. The list includes 27 vascular and one bryophyte vegetation classes, hosting 194 low rank alien-dominated syntaxa. The different vegetation types detected for each syntaxonomic class and macro-vegetation group, defined by physiognomical and ecological attributes, are discussed.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
27046192
Volume :
57
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Plant Sociology
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.43c87d5353fb402e9e4a17a6f3741984
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3897/pls2020571/04