Conserving plant diversity in Europe: outcomes, criticisms and perspectives of the Habitats Directive application in Italy
Giuseppe Fenu,Gianluigi Bacchetta,V. Giacanelli,Domenico Gargano,Chiara Montagnani,Simone Orsenigo,Donatella Cogoni,Graziano Rossi,Fabio Conti,Annalisa Santangelo,Maria Silvia Pinna,Fabrizio Bartolucci,Gianniantonio Domina,G. Oriolo,Carlo Blasi,Piero Genovesi,Thomas Abeli,S. Ercole +17 more
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The results of the third Italian assessment regarding the conservation status (CS) of plants listed in the Habitat Directive (Flora of community interest—FCI) showed a critical situation with only 34% of favourable CS, while 50% were unfavourable; monitoring activities needs to be improved in order to close information gaps for several plants.Abstract:
Habitat Directive is the core strategy of nature conservation in Europe aiming at halting biodiversity loss In this study the results of the third Italian assessment regarding the conservation status (CS) of plants listed in the Habitat Directive (Flora of community interest—FCI) was presented Data was collected from several sources related to plant distribution, population data, habitats and pressures Following the official European procedure, all parameters were evaluated and combined to give the CS of each taxon in each biogeographical region of presence A comparison between the recent Italian IUCN and Reporting assessments was performed in order to evaluate the consistency between these two assessments The official EU checklist comprises 113 Italian plant taxa, 107 of which were examined in this study Our results showed a critical situation with only 34% of favourable CS, while 50% were unfavourable (40% inadequate plus 10% bad) and 16% unknown, in particular in the Mediterranean bioregion, where the unfavourable assessments reach the 65% The results of the Report were consistent with those of the IUCN assessment, in which 419% of plants were threatened with extinction This report highlighted some benefits and criticisms at national level, but it may have a wider significance Although a general advance of knowledge, a great effort is needed to reach the Habitats Directive goals Despite the limited resources, monitoring activities needs to be improved in order to close information gaps for several plants A positive outcome was the development of a specific national project funded by the Italian Ministry of Environment, with the ambitious target to set future monitoring activities for FCI and optimize monitoring effortsread more
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An updated checklist of the vascular flora native to Italy
Fabrizio Bartolucci,Lorenzo Peruzzi,Gabriele Galasso,Antonella Albano,A. Alessandrini,Nicola M. G. Ardenghi,Giovanni Astuti,Gianluigi Bacchetta,Sandro Ballelli,Enrico Banfi,G. Barberis,Liliana Bernardo,Daniela Bouvet,M. Bovio,Lorenzo Cecchi,R. Di Pietro,Gianniantonio Domina,Simonetta Fascetti,Giuseppe Fenu,Francesco Festi,Bruno Foggi,Lorenzo Gallo,Günter Gottschlich,L. Gubellini,Duilio Iamonico,Mauro Iberite,Pedro Jiménez-Mejías,E. Lattanzi,D. Marchetti,Edoardo Martinetto,R. Masin,Pietro Medagli,Nicodemo G. Passalacqua,Simonetta Peccenini,Riccardo Pennesi,B. Pierini,Livio Poldini,Filippo Prosser,Francesco Maria Raimondo,Francesco Roma-Marzio,Leonardo Rosati,Annalisa Santangelo,Anna Scoppola,S. Scortegagna,Alberto Selvaggi,Federico Selvi,A. Soldano,Adriano Stinca,Robert P. Wagensommer,T. Wilhalm,Fabio Conti +50 more
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Red list of threatened vascular plants in Italy
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