Biodiversity and Conservation Actions on Mount Voras, Greece

Trakolis, D.; Platis, Panagiotis; Meliadis, Ioannis

doi:10.1007/s002670010077

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“…Buffer zones around the protected areas served as restriction zones to prevent any nuisance to wild fauna. An almost similar proposal was reported by Trakolis et al (2000) on Mount Voras in Greece.…”

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Monitoring and analysis of natural vegetation in a Special Protected Area of Mountain Antichasia—Meteora, central Greece

Meliadis¹,

Platis²,

Ainalis

et al. 2009

Environ Monit Assess

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Natural ecosystems are renewable resources with special environmental, social, and economical attributes and characteristics. The increasing need of human beings for a better environment results in the use of new technologies that offer many advantages in detecting changes in the ecosystems. Remote sensing tools, technology, and the spatial analysis of the Geographic Information System were used in determining any changes in this study which attempts to classify land cover over a 10-year period. The study area is in Thessaly, central Greece, and has been classified as a Special Protection Area, because of its important wild fauna. The results have shown that current technologies can be used for modeling environmental parameters which improve our knowledge of the attributes, characteristics, situation, trends, and changes of natural ecosystems. The changes over time that have been observed result from the development of the vegetation or to anthropogenic and socioeconomic reasons. Rational range management will be a very comprehensive tool for farmers. This action will have a positive impact on flora in the rangelands. The core strategy is to combine forest, pasture, and livestock so that each component produces usable products.

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confidence: 77%

Monitoring and analysis of natural vegetation in a Special Protected Area of Mountain Antichasia—Meteora, central Greece

Meliadis¹,

Platis²,

Ainalis

et al. 2009

Environ Monit Assess

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“…these phases, sustained high percentages of total arboreal pollen (including Juniperus and Pinus) yet much lower arboreal pollen minus Juniperus and Pinus, may reflect moist yet cold conditions. Juniperus and Pinus species are tolerant of cold conditions and today characterise part of the high-mountain vegetation assemblage in many Mediterranean mountain areas (Reille et al, 1997;García et al, 1999;Trakolis et al, 2000). Examples of these phases are indicated in Fig.…”

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Late Pleistocene glaciers and climate in the Mediterranean

Hughes

Woodward

Gibbard

2006

Global and Planetary Change

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Evidence for Late Pleistocene glaciers and rock glaciers in the Pindus Mountains, Greece, is used to reconstruct palaeoclimate for this part of the Mediterranean during the last cold stage (Tymphian/ Würmian). Mean annual precipitation was c. 2300 ± 200 mm and the mean summer temperature (June/July/August) was c. 4.9°C at 2174 m a.s.l., the equilibrium line altitude of the former glaciers, at the last local glacier maximum. The glacier-climate relationship in the northern Pindus Mountains during the local glacier maximum of the Tymphian Stage closely resembled that found today at the equilibrium line altitude of Norwegian glaciers. The local glacier maximum on Mount Tymphi is likely to have preceded both the most severe phase of climate indicated in the pollen record at nearby Ioannina and also the global last glacial maximum. Major stadials, including the most severe phase of the last cold stage, were characterised by cold sea surfaces temperatures, which inhibited atmospheric moisture supply creating unfavourable conditions for glacier formation. Such stadial conditions are likely to have favoured periglacial conditions and the formation of features such as rock glaciers. Conversely, warm summer temperatures during major interstadials would have promoted glacier ablation, offsetting increased precipitation enabled by warmer sea surface temperatures. Thus, the most favourable conditions for glacier formation would have occurred during intermediate conditions between major stadials and interstadials. It is clear that former glacier behaviour in the mountains of this region is best understood with reference to temporally dynamic glacier-climate models, which take into account millennial-scale changes in both precipitation and temperature.

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“…In Greece, forest boundaries are between 1700 and 2000 m [4], however, grasslands over 1200 m are ecologically connected to the pseudo-alpine zone and are therefore considered as pseudo-alpine [5]. They are among the European regions where conservation is of the utmost importance (Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992) [6] and they make up most of Greece's Special Protection Zones for Mountainous Areas [7].…”

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Impact of Transhumant Livestock Grazing Abandonment on Pseudo-Alpine Grasslands in Greece in the Context of Climatic Change

Sidiropoulou

Chouvardas

Mantzanas

et al. 2022

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Pseudo-alpine grassland ecosystems have started to decline during the past few decades. According to many studies, climate change and abandonment of traditional anthropogenic activities are directly linked to this phenomenon. However, the interaction of these two factors with pseudo-alpine grasslands has not been studied in Greece. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of climatic change and abandonment of transhumant livestock grazing on pseudo-alpine grassland ecosystems structure and stability in Mt Vermio and Mt Zireia. Geographic Information System data on land use/land cover from 1945 and 2020, as well as climatological and livestock data, have been examined and presented. Landscape metrics were also used to quantify landscape structure changes. Although both mountains’ pseudo-alpine grasslands have reduced in size, Mt Zireia has experienced an upward treeline shift, which seems to be the result of climate change, while in Mt Vermio, the more severe transhumance abandonment caused horizontal tree expansion. There are strong indications that a rise in temperature is the main driver for the upward increase in treeline.

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Biodiversity and Conservation Actions on Mount Voras, Greece

Cited by 10 publications

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Monitoring and analysis of natural vegetation in a Special Protected Area of Mountain Antichasia—Meteora, central Greece

Monitoring and analysis of natural vegetation in a Special Protected Area of Mountain Antichasia—Meteora, central Greece

Late Pleistocene glaciers and climate in the Mediterranean

Impact of Transhumant Livestock Grazing Abandonment on Pseudo-Alpine Grasslands in Greece in the Context of Climatic Change

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