Crop changes from the XVI century to the present in a hill/mountain area of eastern Liguria (Italy)

Gentili, Rodolfo; Gentili, Elio; Sgorbati, Sergio

doi:10.1186/1746-4269-5-9

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“…Liguria has experienced widespread abandonment of previously cultivated inland areas since the 1960s, similar to most Italian mountain areas where open-canopy vegetation types are being progressively replaced by forests (Mazzoleni et al, 2004;Gentili et al, 2009). The traditional water sources are thus abandoned or progressively replaced by direct connections to water pipes, particularly for irrigation purposes.…”

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Land abandonment may reduce disturbance and affect the breeding sites of an Endangered amphibian in northern Italy

Canessa

Oneto

Ottonello

et al. 2013

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Although human-related disturbance is usually detrimental for biodiversity, in some instances it can simulate natural processes and benefit certain species. Changes in the disturbance regime, both natural and human-driven, can affect species that rely on it. The Apennine yellow-bellied toad Bombina variegata pachypus, an amphibian endemic to peninsular Italy, has declined throughout its range in the last 3 decades. We sought to identify the drivers of the decline in the region of Liguria, at the north-western limit of its distribution. In 2009 and 2010 we surveyed sites where the species occurred until 2005 and related the persistence of breeding activity to the characteristics of sites. Populations had disappeared from 50% of the sites between 2005 and 2009. Current breeding sites have less aquatic and bank vegetation, fewer predators and better insolation. Frequent disturbance events (desiccation and floods) were related to reduced vegetation, which in turn may decrease predator densities and increase insolation. In this region disturbance is provided by natural factors or, in the case of artificial water bodies, by regular maintenance carried out by landowners. The widespread land abandonment in Liguria can disrupt disturbance regimes, interrupting the removal of vegetation, and thus rapidly reduce the suitability of artificial sites. This was confirmed in our study, with most abandoned breeding sites occurring in formerly cultivated areas. Possible short-term conservation actions include creating new ponds, maintaining artificial water bodies and clearing vegetation. However, long-term conservation may be more problematic as the land abandonment process is unlikely to be reversed.

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Land abandonment may reduce disturbance and affect the breeding sites of an Endangered amphibian in northern Italy

Canessa

Oneto

Ottonello

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“…Nevertheless, not much has been done so far in European terms of cross-cultural comparative ethnobotanical studies (Leporatti and Ivancheva 2003;Pieroni and Quave 2005;Pieroni et al 2006;Ghirardini et al 2007;Pardo-de-Santayana et al 2007;Hadjichambis et al 2008;González-Tejero et al 2008;Leporatti and Ghedira 2009;Pieroni et al 2011) and/or studies, which consider also historical or folkloric sources on herbal or wild food plant uses (Pieroni 2000;Łuczaj 2008, 2010aPollio et al 2008;De Natale et al 2009;Gentili et al 2009;Leonti et al 2009Leonti et al , 2010Péntek and Szabó 1985;Tagarelli et al 2010).…”

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An ethnobotanical survey of the Gollak region, Kosovo

Mustafa

Hajdari

Pajazita

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An ethnobotanical field study focused on traditional uses of medicinal plants, wild food plants, and mushrooms was conducted in 37 villages in the Gollak region of eastern Kosovo. Interviews with 66 elderly informants were conducted using standard ethnobotanical methods. The uses of 92 vascular plants and 6 mushrooms species belonging to 47 different families were recorded. Mainly infusions and decoctions were quoted as folk medicinal preparations and the most commonly quoted plant medicinal uses referred to diseases of the respiratory system, skin, and gastrointestinal tract. Comparison of the collected data with the ethnobotanical findings of previously conducted studies in the surrounding Western Balkan areas showed that, even if more than the half of Gollak's wild botanical genera quoted as medicines used are the same in Serbia and in Northern Albania, commonalities between the actual medicinal plant applications recorded in the present study and those reported for the other areas are extremely scarce. This may confirm the richness of the bio-cultural heritage of the Western Balkan region and the urgent need to conduct cross-cultural comparative field ethnobiological studies.

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“…De hecho las conclusiones de estudios realizados bajo perspectivas diferentes vienen a ser, de una u otra forma, convergentes y hacen referencia a los problemas derivados de los intensos cambios paisajísticos sufridos en el último siglo y, especialmente, en las últimas seis décadas. No obstante, la reconstrucción del paisaje mediterráneo en los últimos siglos es una línea de investigación creciente (Harfouche, 2005), con los ejemplos destacables de Liguria (Gentili et al 2009), Lesvos (Kizos y Kouloiri, 2006) o la Toscana (Agnoletti, 2007), entre otros. En España resulta especialmente sugerente la línea desarrollada en los Pirineos (Briffaud, 1994;Utrillas et al 2003;Matamala et al 2005, entre otros).…”

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Crop changes from the XVI century to the present in a hill/mountain area of eastern Liguria (Italy)

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Land abandonment may reduce disturbance and affect the breeding sites of an Endangered amphibian in northern Italy

Land abandonment may reduce disturbance and affect the breeding sites of an Endangered amphibian in northern Italy

An ethnobotanical survey of the Gollak region, Kosovo

Sobre las repercusiones ambientales de las transformaciones del paisaje: oportunidades para la geografía histórica

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