Bioclimate of Italy: application of the worldwide bioclimatic classification system
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...…synthesis, we examined a vast number of vegetation studies encompassing: (i) Italian nationwide (e.g. Géhu et al. 1984; Landucci et al. 2013; Pesaresi et al. 2014), (ii) local geographic areas (e.g. Blasi et al. 2000, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2012a; Acosta et al. 2003; Di Pietro et al. 2010),…...
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...To achieve this syntaxonomic synthesis, we examined a vast number of vegetation studies encompassing: (i) Italian nationwide (e.g. Géhu et al. 1984; Landucci et al. 2013; Pesaresi et al. 2014), (ii) local geographic areas (e....
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...The MAEs were from 5.45 to 16.12, and all were better than those of the bioclimatic map of Pesaresi et al. (2014) (Table 1)....
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...These limits mainly concern the precipitation surfaces, and they have resulted in minor inaccuracies in Ombrotypes mapping (see Table 11 in Pesaresi et al., 2014)....
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...The Steppic variant was recently mapped by Pesaresi et al. (2014), and it is mainly located in areas of the Po Valley (as a Temperate macrobioclimate)....
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...To date, for Italy, the map of Pesaresi et al. (2014) is the only full implementation of the WBCS at this national scale....
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...Finally, in terms of the MAE, we compared these new calibrated climatic surfaces with those produced with different methods at national scales for the same territory (Brunetti, Maugeri, Nanni, Simolo, & Spinoni, 2014; Pesaresi et al., 2014)....
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...Bioclimatically, the area lies in the temperate oceanic bioclimate, lower orotemperate thermotype, lower/upper humid ombrotype (Pesaresi et al. 2014)....
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...Mean annual precipitation from 1950 to 2000 was 1,100 mm, while mean summer rainfall (June, July and August) was 205 mm, with a short period of summer water deficit usually lasting from mid-July to mid-end August; average annual temperature was 11 °C (Pesaresi et al., 2014)....
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...These K values have been interpreted as follows (Landis & Koch, 1977): ,0.2, slight agreement; 0.2–0.4, fair agreement; 0.4–0.6, moderate agreement; 0.6–0.8, substantial agreement; 0.8–1.0, almost perfect agreement....
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...The judgment follows (Landis & Koch, 1977)....
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...Finally we assessed the degree of agreement between the WBCS map of Italy presented here (Main Map) and the WBCS applied to the observed meteorological data using Cohen’s K statistic (Cohen, 1960) implemented in the ‘fmsb’ package (Nakazawa, 2013) within R (R Core Team, 2012)....
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...These differences were not captured by WorldClim, because of the sparse density of meteorological stations, and they are probably due to locally important climate drivers, such as those caused by local barrier effects (Hijmans et al., 2005; Metzger et al., 2013)....
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...In the present study, we have applied the WBCS to the Italian territory, using ‘WorldClim’ (Hijmans et al., 2005) precipitation and temperature data to: (i) produce maps that will be useful for bioclimatic diagnosis of the Italian territories; and (ii) provide geographic datasets (as raster format,…...
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...Hijmans et al. (2005) indicated some limitations of the WorldClim spatial dataset accuracy at regional and national scales, and in particular concerning precipitation in mountain areas....
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...As source data, we used the WorldClim spatial climatic data (30 arc-seconds for about 1 km of resolution; Hijmans et al., 2005): the average monthly minimum temperatures (8C ×10), the average 544 S. Pesaresi et al. monthly mean temperatures (8C ×10), the average monthly maximum temperatures (8C…...
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...…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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