An overview of the Italian coastal dune EU habitats

Annali di Botanica

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 39-48

  Prisco, I ^a   Acosta, A T R ^a   Ercole, S ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coastal dune zonation; Dune habitats conservation; Habitats directive; National database; Phytosociological Relev s; Psammophilous vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892407243     PISSN: 03650812     EISSN: 22393129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4462/annbotrm-9340     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Acosta A.T.R., Stanisci A., Ercole S., Blasi C., 2003. Sandy coastal landscape of the Lazio region (Central Italy). Phytocoenologia 33, 715-726.
2. Acosta A.T.R., Carranza M.L., Izzi, C.F., 2009. Are there habitats that contribute best to plant species diversity in coastal dunes? Biodiversity and Conservation 18, 1087-1098.
3. Barbier E.B., Hacker S.D., Kennedy C., Koch E.W., Stier A.C., Silliman B.R., 2011. The value of estuarine and coastal ecosystem services. Ecological Monographs 81(2), 169-193.
4. Biondi E., 1999. Diversità fitocenotica degli ambienti costieri italiani. Bollettino Museo Civico Scienze Naturali Venezia 49, 39-105. Arsenale Editore.
5. Biondi E., 2007. Thoughts on the ecology and syntaxonomy of some vegetation typologies of the Mediterranean coast. Fitosociologia 44(1), 3-10.
6. Biondi E., Blasi C., Burrascano S., Casavecchia S., Copiz R., Del Vico E., Galdenzi D., Gigante D., Lasen C., Spampinato G., Venanzoni R., Zivkovic L., 2009. Manuale Italiano di interpretazione degli habitat della Direttiva 92/43/CEE (Italian Interpretation Manual of the 92/43/EEC Directive Habitats). Retrived from http://vnr.unipg.it/habitat/index.jsp.
7. Braun-Blanquet J., 1928. Pflanzensoziologie. Grundzüge der Vegetationskunde. Springer, Berlin, DE.
8. Braatz S., Fortuna S., Broadhead J., Leslie R., 2007. Coastal protection in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami. What role for forests and trees? Proceedings of the Regional Technical Workshop, Khao Lak, Thailand, 28-31 August 2006. FAO, Bangkok, Thailand.
9. Boillot F., Vignault M.P., De Benito J.M., 1997. Process for assessing national lists of proposed Sites of Community Interest (pSCI) at biogeographical level. Natur und Landschaft 72, 474-476.
10. Brullo S., Giusso del Galdo G.P., Siracusa G., Spampinato G., 2001. Considerazioni fitogeografiche sulla vegetazione psammofila dei litorali italiani. Biogeographia 22, 93-137.
11. Carboni M., Santoro R., Acosta A.T.R., 2011. Dealing with scarce data to understand how environmental gradients and propagule pressure shape fine-scale alien distribution patterns on coastal dunes. Journal of Vegetation Science 22, 751-765.
12. Cochard R., Ranamukhaarachchi S.L., Shivakoti G.P., Shipin O.V., Edwards P.J., Seeland K.T., 2008. The 2004 tsunami in Aceh and Southern Thailand: a review on coastal ecosystems, wave hazards and vulnerability. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 10, 3-40.
13. Conti F., Abbate G., Alessandrini A., Blasi C. (eds) (2005). An Annotated Checklist of the Italian Vascular Flora. Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza". Palombi Editori, Roma.
14. Cori B., 1999. Spatial dynamics of Mediterranean coastal regions. Journal of Coastal Conservation 5, 105-112.
15. Doing H., 1985. Coastal foredune zonation and succession in various parts of the world. Plant Ecology 61, 65-75.
16. EEC, 1992. Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora. Official Journal L. 206, 22/07/1992.
17. ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.), 2006. ArcGIS 9.2. Redlands, CA, USA.
18. European Commission DG Environment, 2007. Interpretation Manual of European Union Habitats. EUR 27.
19. European Commission DG Environment, 2008. Article 17 Technical Report 2001-2006 (http://biodiversity.eionet.europa.eu/article17). European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity.
20. Feola S., Carranza M.L., Schaminée J.H.J., Janssen J.A.M., Acosta A.T.R., 2011. EU habitats of interest: an insight into Atlantic and Mediterranean beach and foredunes. Biodiversity and Conservation 20,1457-1468.
21. Forey E., Chapelet B., Vitasse Y., Tilquin M., Touzard B., Michalet R., 2008. The relative importance of disturbance and environmental stress at local and regional scales in French coastal sand dunes. Journal of Vegetation Science vol. 19, issue 4, 493-502.
22. Gamper U., Filesi L., Buffa G., Sburlino G., 2008. Diversità fitocenotica delle dune costiere nord-adriatiche. Le comunità fanerofitiche. Fitosociologia 45, issue 1: 3-21.
23. Géhu J.M., Costa M., Scoppola A., Biondi E., Marchiori S., Peris J.B., Franck J., Caniglia G., Veri L., 1984. Essay synsystématique et synchorologique sur les végétations littorales italiennes dans un but conservatoire. Documents Phytosociologiques 8: 393-474.
24. Hennekens S.M. 1996. TURBO (VEG). Software package for input, processing, and presentation of phytosociological data. User's guide. Wageningen, NL & University of Lancaster, UK.
25. Hennekens S.M., Schaminée J.H.J., 2001. TURBOVEG, a comprehensive database management system for vegetation data. Journal of Vegetation Science 12(4), 589-591.
26. Houston J., 2008. Management of Natura 2000 habitats. 2130 ∗Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation ("grey dunes"). European Commission.
27. Isermann M., 2005. Soil pH and species diversity in coastal dunes. Plant Ecology, 178: 111-120.
28. Jongman R.H.G., ter Braak C.J.F., van Tongeren O. (eds.), 1987. Data analysis in community and landscape ecology. Pudoc, Wageningen.
29. Koch E.W., Barbier E.B., Silliman B.R., Reed D.J., Perillo G.M.E., Hacker S.D., Granek E.F., Primavera J.H., Muthiga N., Polasky S., Halpern B.S., Kennedy C.J., Kappel C.V., Wolanski E., 2009. Non-linearity in ecosystem services: temporal and spatial variability in coastal protection. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7, 29-37.
30. La Posta A., Duprè E., Bianchi E., 2008. Attuazione della Direttiva Habitat e stato di conservazione di habitat e specie in Italia. Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare. Direzione per la protezione della Natura. Palombi editore, Roma.
31. Martínez M.L., Psuty N.P (eds.) 2004. Coastal dunes. Ecology and conservation. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
32. McCune, B., Mefford M.J, 2006. PC-ORD. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data. Version 5.10. MjM Software, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, U.S.A.
33. McLachlan A., Brown A.C., 2006. The Ecology of Sandy Shores. Academic Press, Burlington, MA, USA.
34. Miller T.E., Gornish E.S., Buckley H.L., 2010. Climate and coastal dune vegetation: disturbance, recovery, and succession. Plant Ecology 206, 97-104.
35. Mücher C.A., Hennekens S.M., Bunce R.G.H., Schaminée J.H.J., 2004. Mapping European Habitat to support the design and implementation of a Pan-European Network; the PEENHAB project. Wageningen, Alterra. Alterra report 952. Nederland, pp. 124.
36. Olff H., Huisman J., Van Tooren B.F., 1993. Species dynamics and nutrient accumulation during early primary succession in coastal sand dunes. Journal of Ecology, vol. 81, issue 4, 693-706.
37. Picchi S., 2008. Management of Natura 2000 habitats. 2250 ∗Coastal dunes with Juniperus spp. European Commission.
38. Pignatti S., 1993. Dry coastal ecosystems of Italy. In: van der Maarel E. (ed.).Dry coastal ecosystems. Polar Regions and Europe. Ecosystems of the World 2A, pp. 379-290. Elsevier, Amsterdam, NL.
39. Rosenzweig M.L., 1995. Species diversity in space and time. University Press, Cambridge.
40. Schaminée J.H.J., Hennekens S.M., Chytrý M., Rodwell J.S., 2009. Vegetation-plot data and databases in Europe: an overview. Preslia 81, 173-185.
41. Stanisci A., Acosta A.T.R., Ercole S., Blasi C., 2004. Plant communities on coastal dunes in Lazio (Italy). Annali di Botanica, nuova serie IV, 115-128.
42. Sýkora K.V., van den Bogert J.C.J.M., Berendse F., 2004. Changes in soil and vegetation during dune slack succession. Journal of Vegetation Science 15(2), 209-218.
43. van der Maarel E., 2003. Some remarks on the functions of European coastal ecosystems. Phytocoenologia 33(2-3), 187-202.
44. van der Meulen F., Udo de Haes H.A., 1996. Nature conservation and integrated coastal zone management in Europe: present and future. Landscape and Urban Planning 34, 401-410.
45. Wätzold F., Schwerdtner K., 2005. Why be wasteful when preserving a valuable resource? A review article on the cost-effectiveness of European biodiversity conservation policy. Biological Conservation 123, 327-338.
46. Westhoff V., van der Maarel E., 1973. The Braun-Blanquet approach. In: Whittaker R. H. (ed.)Classification of plant communities. pp. 289-399, W. Junk, The Plague, NL.
47. Wiedemann A.M., Pickart A.J., 2004. Temperate zone coastal dunes. In: Martinez M., Psuty N. (eds).Coastal dunes: ecology and conservation. Springer, pp. 53-65.