A5105103487- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Genetic diversity and population structure
University of Florence
2024-2025
We present ReSurveyDunes — the first database of Italian coastal dune vegetation plots, developed through a collaborative network scientists. This paper describes scope initiative, provides an overview available data, and highlights its key features, research applications, future potential. currently comprises 972 plots distributed across 11 regions (Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Molise, Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany, Veneto). The original were surveyed between...
Wetlands are among the world’s valuable ecosystems for biodiversity conservation, but they also most threatened habitats, heavily impacted by human pressures and threats. The Mediterranean basin features numerous small lakes, ponds, pools, whose number quality decreasing at an alarming rate, is often little or not all known. As a better knowledge of biotic components these minor water bodies necessary, with this aim phytosociological survey campaign was carried out in southern Tuscany...
We present an updated inventory of the vascular flora island Montecristo (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy). The has been based on a comprehensive bibliographical revision floristic floras and previous inventories, together with herbarium specimens already preserved in Tuscan Herbaria implementation survey campaigns carried out between 2011 2024. counts 582 specific subspecific taxa currently (including 515 spontaneous 67 cultivated ones), highest number species ever recorded island. Since 2000, 45...
Invasive alien plant species are among the major drivers of change in natural ecosystems; therefore, their eradication or control is a common and effective conservation tool to reverse biodiversity loss. The LIFE LETSGO GIGLIO project was implemented with objective controlling invasion Carpobrotus spp., most threatening invasive Mediterranean ecosystems, on Island Giglio (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy). management spp. conducted across an area approximately 33,000 m 2 coastal habitats. main...
Within a practical course of cytotaxonomy organized in Pisa (Italy) on February 2024 by the Group for Floristics, Systematics and Evolution Italian Botanical Society, we tested whether using image analysis softwares possible biases are still introduced different observers. We conclude that observer bias selectively applies possibly overestimating length short arms karyotype. As consequence, parameters most sensitive to these errors CV CI CL , less degree M CA THL. To achieve more stable...
Within a practical course of cytotaxonomy organized in Pisa (Italy) on February 2024 by the Group for Floristics, Systematics and Evolution Italian Botanical Society, we tested whether relevant differences karyotype asymmetry structure occur four tetraploid European taxa from Paeonia sect. (P. mascula subsp. russoi, P. officinalis huthii, italica, peregrina ). Our results point towards homogeneous among studied species, with no statistically significant difference high overlap variation...
We present an updated list of the vascular flora island Montecristo (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy), which was last described in 1976 by Paoli and Romagnoli. The inventory has been based on a comprehensive bibliographical review floristic floras previous inventories, together with revision herbarium specimens already preserved Tuscan herbaria implementation survey campaigns carried out between 2011 2024. counts 585 specific subspecific taxa currently (including 518 spontaneous entities 67...