Sand dune vegetation along the eastern Adriatic coast

Classification of European and Mediterranean coastal dune vegetation

“…In Europe, the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC; http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/legislation/habitatsdirective/; accessed 13 Feb 2018) is the main instrument for the protection and restoration of coastal dune habitats, but a comprehensive and critically tested classification of dune vegetation, needed for effective conservation planning, is still missing. Several detailed phytosociological studies have been carried out, mostly within restricted regions (Braun‐Blanquet, Roussine, & Nègre, ; Danin & Solomeshch, ; Demartini, ; Eig, ; Géhu, ; Géhu & Biondi, ; Géhu & Géhu‐Frank, ; Iakushenko, Matchutadze, Tokaryuk, Solomakha, & Bolqvadze, ; Isermann, ; Korzhenevsky & Kvitnitskaya, ; Mayer, ; Morariu, ; Oberdorfer, ; Piotrowska, , ; Rivas‐Goday & Rivas‐Martínez, ; Šilc et al., ; Sýkora, Babalonas, & Papastergiadou, ; Vicherek, ). These contributions reveal conflicting views on the syntaxonomy of dune vegetation, which can be partially related to advances in knowledge (see, for instance, the evolution in the syntaxonomic schemes published by Braun‐Blanquet, ; Braun‐Blanquet & Tüxen, ; Westhoff, Dijk, & Passchier, ; Pignatti, ; Sissingh, ; Géhu, , ; Géhu, Biondi, Costa, & Géhu‐Frank, ; Brullo & Furnari, ; Géhu & Uslu, ; Brullo, Giusso del Galdo, Siracusa, & Spampinato, ; Rivas‐Martínez et al., ; Bardat et al., ; Biondi & Galdenzi, ; Mucina et al., ).…”

MOENCHIA ERECTA (L.) G. Gaertn., B. Mey & Scherb. AND CATAPODIUM MARINUM (L.) C.E. Hubb. TWO NEW SPECIES IN THE FLORA OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

“…Distribution East [2,9] (Figure 3). This species can be found along the Adriatic sea [17][18][19] and also elsewhere along the coast of Balkan Peninsula [20]. Most often this species appears on coastal habitats, close to the sea: sand dunes, and also in trampled habitats [21].…”

Similarities and differences in dune habitats between Tuscan and Dobrogean coasts (North-Western Italy versus Romania & Northern Bulgaria)

“…Nevertheless, only H1210, H2110 and H2120, are those habitats that better represent the foredune -the area between the shoreline and the dune crests [4] -and those more frequently present all along the European sedimentary coasts. Each habitat is essentially characterized by few diagnostic species and/or phytosociological syntaxa [2,10,28] and it is of utmost importance to identify similarities or differences of the same dune habitats of European coasts, not only for better scientific knowledge but also for a better possibility of conservation and management [15,47].…”