VegItaly: The Italian collaborative project for a national vegetation database

Landucci, Flavia; Acosta, Alicia Teresa Rosario; Agrillo, Emiliano; Attorre, Fabio; Biondi, Edoardo; Cambria, Vito Emanuele; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Vico, E. Del; Sanctis, Michele De; Facioni, L.; Geri, Francesco; Gigante, Daniela; Guarino, Riccardo; Landi, Sara; Lucarini, Domenico; Panfili, E; Pesaresi, Simone; Prisco, Irene; Rosati, Leonardo; Spada, Francesco; Venanzoni, Roberto

doi:10.1080/11263504.2012.740093

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“…This is even more important if we consider the recent production of the National Italian Vegetation Database 'VegItaly' (Gigante et al, 2012;Landucci et al, 2012), which provides a vegetation and flora dataset at the national scale. In addition these maps can contribute to landscape classification as proposed for the land unit of Italy (Smiraglia et al, 2013) and in particular they allow species distribution modeling and habitat modeling to be performed (Austin, 1999;Baselga & Araújo, 2009;Ferrier & Guisan, 2006;Franklin, 1995;Guisan & Zimmermann, 2000), as the climate data are probably the most important abiotic factors for plant distribution.…”

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Bioclimate of Italy: application of the worldwide bioclimatic classification system

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The worldwide bioclimatic classification system (WBCS) of Rivas-Martínez was applied to the Italian territory and surrounding areas between latitudes 35847 ′ -46860 ′ N and longitudes 5892 ′ -21839 ′ E. The 'WorldClim' precipitation and temperature dataset was used as the source data. Application of the WBCS in a geographic information system allowed the production of macrobioclimates, bioclimates, ombrotypes, continentality, compensated thermicity index and ombro-evaporal index maps at a scale of 1:5,500,000, and a map of thermotypes at a scale of 1:2,250,000. Moreover, the isobioclimates of Italy are identified and quantified in terms of areas. These maps are available here as raster datasets (1 km spatial resolution) and are useful for: (i) rapid bioclimatic diagnosis of the Italian territories; and (ii) vegetation-environment relationship modeling at the national scale.

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Bioclimate of Italy: application of the worldwide bioclimatic classification system

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“…The collected relevés included all the phytosociological literature available from Sicily to neighbouring islets (for a reference list, see Brullo et al 2008), plus 39 unpublished relevés stored in the archives of Vegitaly (Landucci et al 2012;Gigante et al 2012). All data were sampled according to the phytosociological method of the Zürich-Montpellier school (Braun-Blanquet 1964).…”

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A test on Ellenberg indicator values in the Mediterranean evergreen woods (Quercetea ilicis)

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2015

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The consistency and reliability of Ellenberg's indicator values (Eiv) as ecological descriptors of the Mediterranean evergreen vegetation ascribed to the phytosociological class Quercetea ilicis have been checked on a set of 859 phytosociological relevés 9 699 species. Diagnostic species were identified through a Twinspan analysis and their Eiv analyzed and related to the following independent variables: (1) annual mean temperatures, (2) annual rainfall. The results provided interesting insights to disentangle the current syntaxonomical framework at the alliance level demonstrating the usefulness of ecological indicator values to test the efficiency and predictivity of the phytosociological classification.

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“…Bonis & Bouzillé, 2012;Dimopoulos et al, 2012;Font, Pérez-García, Biurrun, Fernández-González, & Lence, 2012). In Italy, a similar project named 'VegItaly' is underway (Gigante et al, 2012;Landucci et al, 2012) but is far from completion in many regions. Tuscany is one of the regions in which work is ongoing .…”

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Natura 2000 protected habitats, Massaciuccoli Lake (northern Tuscany, Italy)

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The Massaciuccoli Lake (northern Tuscany, Italy) Natura 2000 habitat map (1:10,000) was compiled from photo-interpretation and recent phytosociological studies, integrated by field surveys of the vegetation units. Conventional geographical information system procedures were used to select and manage spatial information. The following attributes were assigned to each map polygon: (i) vegetation type, (ii) habitat typology and (iii) percentage cover of the habitat type. Habitat types covering polygons smaller than 50 m 2 were treated as points. A total of nine Natura 2000 habitat types were identified and mapped; they cover almost 20% of the study area. The results show that of all sites on the Italian peninsula, Lake Massaciuccoli Calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus covers the largest surface area and is crucial for the national conservation of this habitat type. It is also of priority importance in Europe.ARTICLE HISTORY

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VegItaly: The Italian collaborative project for a national vegetation database

Cited by 52 publications

References 40 publications

Bioclimate of Italy: application of the worldwide bioclimatic classification system

Bioclimate of Italy: application of the worldwide bioclimatic classification system

A test on Ellenberg indicator values in the Mediterranean evergreen woods (Quercetea ilicis)

Natura 2000 protected habitats, Massaciuccoli Lake (northern Tuscany, Italy)

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