Important Plant Areas in Italy: From data to mapping

Blasi, C.; Marignani, Michela; Copiz, R.; Fipaldini, M.; Bonacquisti, S.; Vico, E. Del; Rosati, Leonardo; Zavattero, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.08.019

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“…The rich flora of this territory includes rare and highly localized palaeo-endemites, such as Colymbada tauromentana, Brassica raimondoi and Limonium sibthorpianum, testifying the long and complex paleogeographic history of this area (Arena et al 1975;Gramuglio et al 1985;Brullo et al 1995;Spampinato et al 2008;Sciandrello & D'Agostino 2014;Sciandrello et al 2013a). Recently, for this reason, the area at issue has been identified by Blasi et al (2010) as one important plant area (IPA), essential for the conservation of plant biodiversity, indicated as "Monti Peloritani e Rupi di Taormina (SIC24)". In recent times, many taxonomic investigations have been carried out in the Peloritani area (Brullo 1980;Brullo & Spampinato 1988;Brullo et al , 2009aCristaudo et al 2009;Cataldo et al 2012;Sciandrello et al 2013a), but an update on the floristic knowledge of the whole area is still missing, being Nicotra (1878Nicotra ( -1879) the last contributor who published a flora on such territory.…”

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The endemic vascular flora of Peloritani Mountains (NE Sicily): Plant functional traits and phytogeographical relationships in the most isolated and fragmentary micro-plate of the Alpine orogeny

Sciandrello

Guarino

Minissale

et al. 2014

Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all As

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This study is aimed at (1) producing a complete and updated inventory of the endemic vascular flora of Peloritani Mountains, (2) defining the geographical limits of Peloritani, regarded here as a biogeographical district and (3) highlighting possible paleogeographic connections with other Mediterranean lands. The heterogeneity analysis of the endemic flora was performed by means of contingency tables, through the x 2 test. The endemic flora of this area consists of 129 specific and infraspecific taxa, of which 15 are restricted to the Peloritani Mountains. The analysis of habitats revealed that endemic taxa are most abundant on cliffs, rangelands, woods and garrigues. A large number of surveyed taxa are endemic to central-southern Italy and Sicily, while the number of endemic taxa in common with Calabria, Etna and Aeolian Islands turned out to be rather low, in spite of the geographical proximity. The endemic flora of Peloritani allows to emphasize palaeogeographical relationships not only with the neighbouring Mediterranean territories, but also with currently remote ones, such as southern Spain, Sardinia and Corsica. The phytogeographical framework substantiates the hypothesis that the Peloritani floristic district coincides with the limit given to Peloritani Mountains by structural geologists.

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The endemic vascular flora of Peloritani Mountains (NE Sicily): Plant functional traits and phytogeographical relationships in the most isolated and fragmentary micro-plate of the Alpine orogeny

Sciandrello

Guarino

Minissale

et al. 2014

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“…Great headway has been made in the identification of IPA sites in large parts of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East (see, for example, Anderson et al 2005;Ö zhatay 2006;Radford and Odé 2009;Byfield et al 2010;Melovski et al 2010Melovski et al , 2012Plantlife 2010a;Blasi et al 2011;Radford et al 2011;Asatryan and Fayvush 2013), with 1994 IPAs in 27 countries identified and documented across this region to date (figure updated from Plantlife International 2010). In many cases, the resultant IPA networks have been integrated into national conservation planning and monitoring schemes (see Plantlife 2010b; Plantlife International 2010).…”

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Important Plant Areas: revised selection criteria for a global approach to plant conservation

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Despite the severe threats to plant habitats and high levels of extinction risk for plant species in many parts of the world, plant conservation priorities are often poorly represented in national and global frameworks because of a lack of data in an accessible and consistent format to inform conservation decision making. The Important Plant Areas (IPAs) criteria system offers a pragmatic yet scientifically rigorous means of delivering these datasets, enabling informed national-or regional-scale conservation prioritisation, and contributing significantly towards global prioritisation systems including the International Union for Conservation of Nature Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) Standard. In this paper, we review the IPA rationale and progress on IPA identification to date, including the perceived limitations of the process and how these may be overcome. We then present a revised set of criteria for use globally, developed through the combined experiences of IPA -017-1336-6 identification over the past decade and a half and through a recent global consultation process. An overview of how the revised IPA criteria can work alongside the newly published KBA Standard is also provided. IPA criteria are based around a sound, scientific, global framework which acknowledges the practical problems of gathering plant and habitat data in many regions of the world, and recognises the role of peer reviewed expert opinion in the selection process. National and sub-national engagement in IPA identification is essential, providing a primary route towards long term conservation of key sites for plant diversity. The IPA criteria can be applied to the conservation of all organism groups within the plant and fungal kingdoms.

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“…A second model formula evaluated the presence/absence of type localities in relation to the degree of protection (number of overlapping protected areas), the 312 Important Plant Areas (IPAs) that have been identified in Italy (Blasi et al, 2011) and the CORINE Land Cover Class at Level II. Each term in the models was tested with the ANOVA function, particularly with a Chi-square test statistic.…”

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At the intersection of cultural and natural heritage: Distribution and conservation of the type localities of Italian endemic vascular plants

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Peruzzi

Domina

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Biological Conservation

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A B S T R A C TWe conducted a GIS spatial analysis with the aim of providing the first quantitative large-scale overview of the distribution patterns of 1536 type localities (loci classici) of 1216 Italian endemic vascular plants and their relationship with a set of descriptive variables. Whereas some variables were used to model the presence-absence distribution patterns of the type localities for the whole set of endemics as well as for the subset of narrow endemics, others (e.g., presence inside or outside protected areas and Italian Important Plant Areas) were considered with the purpose of assessing potential assets or risks for conservation.The largest number of type localities was found within the Mediterranean biogeographic region (1134),http://dx

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Important Plant Areas in Italy: From data to mapping

Cited by 92 publications

References 21 publications

The endemic vascular flora of Peloritani Mountains (NE Sicily): Plant functional traits and phytogeographical relationships in the most isolated and fragmentary micro-plate of the Alpine orogeny

The endemic vascular flora of Peloritani Mountains (NE Sicily): Plant functional traits and phytogeographical relationships in the most isolated and fragmentary micro-plate of the Alpine orogeny

Important Plant Areas: revised selection criteria for a global approach to plant conservation

At the intersection of cultural and natural heritage: Distribution and conservation of the type localities of Italian endemic vascular plants

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