Maria Laura Carranza

TL;DR: Pattern of diversity across major habitat types in a relatively well preserved coastal dune system in central Italy shows that the upper beach (strand) habitat sustains significantly smaller number of species, but surprisingly, it shows the highest rarity values and highest proportion of endangered species.

TL;DR: A synthesis and a review of the main results from ecological studies in mountain ecosystems at 20 LTER sites in Italy, Switzerland and Austria covering in most cases more than two decades of observations highlight the rapid response of mountain ecosystems to climate change.

TL;DR: In this article, the spatial pattern of natural dune cover types, (Beaches with Pioneer annual vegetation, Herbaceous Dune Vegetation and Woody Dune vegetation) was described by patch-based (Patch Size and Shape Index) and edge-based metrics, (patch shared boundaries with manmade cover types) and compared using the nonparametric, Kruskal-Wallis median test.

TL;DR: A practical multiscale method for the assessment of the conservation status of sandy coastal environment, which is articulated in two stages, one focusing on the landscape and the other on the plant community level is applied and tested on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Hierarchical Land Classification for describing and mapping land scapes at different scales is presented, which is based on solid theory and on information which is generally available in Italy.