"A consistent vegetation classification is an essential tool for conservation and monitoring purposes, also for semi-natural habitats such as pastures and hay meadows that are linked to traditional land use and generally considered crucial to maintain biodiversity within agricultural systems. Indeed, these habitats can be strongly affected by land abandonment or agriculture intensification. Despite their importance in the framework of the EU Habitats Directive (43\/92\/EEC), information on distribution, species composition, and conservation status are still lacking for many regions. To fill these gaps we investigated from a phytosociological point of view the sheep pastures of the NW-Sardinian trachy-basaltic sector. Three main communities were described as new: i) perennial montane (meso-supratemperate) cattle and sheep pastures (Loto alpini-Festucetum morisianae); ii) mixed (annual and perennial) Mediterranean (lower Thermomediterranean to lower supratemperate) sheep pastures (Ornithogalo corsici-Poetum bulbosae); iii) annual ploughed subnitrophilous Mediterranean and Temperate pastures (Cynosuro polybracteati-Vulpietum ligusticae). As the first two host numerous endemic taxa and show a peculiar floristic composition, we assign them a higher conservation value, testified also by their classification in two new syntaxa: Danthonio decumbentis-Caricenion insularis (Molinio-Arrhenatheretea) and Ornithogalo corsici-Trifolienion subterranei (Poetea bulbosae), respectively."

Are all pastures eligible for conservation? A phytosociological survey of the Sardinian–Corsican Province as a basic tool for the Habitats Directive / Farris, Emmanuele; Secchi, Z; Rosati, L; Filigheddu, Rossella Speranza. - In: PLANT BIOSYSTEMS. - ISSN 1724-5575. - 147:4(2013), pp. 931-946. [10.1080/11263504.2013.778911]

Are all pastures eligible for conservation? A phytosociological survey of the Sardinian–Corsican Province as a basic tool for the Habitats Directive

FARRIS, Emmanuele;FILIGHEDDU, Rossella Speranza
2013-01-01

Abstract

"A consistent vegetation classification is an essential tool for conservation and monitoring purposes, also for semi-natural habitats such as pastures and hay meadows that are linked to traditional land use and generally considered crucial to maintain biodiversity within agricultural systems. Indeed, these habitats can be strongly affected by land abandonment or agriculture intensification. Despite their importance in the framework of the EU Habitats Directive (43\/92\/EEC), information on distribution, species composition, and conservation status are still lacking for many regions. To fill these gaps we investigated from a phytosociological point of view the sheep pastures of the NW-Sardinian trachy-basaltic sector. Three main communities were described as new: i) perennial montane (meso-supratemperate) cattle and sheep pastures (Loto alpini-Festucetum morisianae); ii) mixed (annual and perennial) Mediterranean (lower Thermomediterranean to lower supratemperate) sheep pastures (Ornithogalo corsici-Poetum bulbosae); iii) annual ploughed subnitrophilous Mediterranean and Temperate pastures (Cynosuro polybracteati-Vulpietum ligusticae). As the first two host numerous endemic taxa and show a peculiar floristic composition, we assign them a higher conservation value, testified also by their classification in two new syntaxa: Danthonio decumbentis-Caricenion insularis (Molinio-Arrhenatheretea) and Ornithogalo corsici-Trifolienion subterranei (Poetea bulbosae), respectively."
2013
Are all pastures eligible for conservation? A phytosociological survey of the Sardinian–Corsican Province as a basic tool for the Habitats Directive / Farris, Emmanuele; Secchi, Z; Rosati, L; Filigheddu, Rossella Speranza. - In: PLANT BIOSYSTEMS. - ISSN 1724-5575. - 147:4(2013), pp. 931-946. [10.1080/11263504.2013.778911]
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