A first checklist of the alien-dominated vegetation in Italy

By

Viciani, Daniele
Vidali, Marisa
Gigante, Daniela
Bolpagni, Rossano
Villani, Mariacristina
Acosta, Alicia Teresa Rosario
Adorni, Michele
Aleffi, Michele
Allegrezza, Marina
Angiolini, Claudia
Assini, Silvia
Bagella, Simonetta
Bonari, Gianmaria
Bovio, Maurizio
Bracco, Francesco
Brundu, Giuseppe
Buffa, Gabriella
Caccianiga, Marco
Carnevali, Lucilla
Ceschin, Simona
Ciaschetti, Giampiero
Cogoni, Annalena
Di Cecco, Valter
Foggi, Bruno
Frattaroli, Annarita
Genovesi, Piero
Gentili, Rodolfo
Lazzaro, Lorenzo
Lonati, Michele
Lucchese, Fernando
Mainetti, Andrea
Mariotti, Mauro
Minissale, Pietro
Paura, Bruno
Pellizzari, Mauro
Perrino, Enrico Vito
Pirone, Gianfranco
Poggio, Laura
Poldini, Livio
Poponessi, Silvia
Prisco, Irene
Prosser, Filippo
Puglisi, Marta
Rosati, Leonardo
Selvaggi, Alberto
Sottovia, Lucio
Spampinato, Giovanni
Stanisci, Angela
Stinca, Adriano
Venanzoni, Roberto
Lastrucci, Lorenzo

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-6-12

Original Publication

Plant sociology

Volume

57

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

29--54

Subjects

Biodiversity , Conservation , Habitat , invasive alien species , Phytosociology , Plant communities , Syntaxonomy , threats

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Pavia Società italiana di scienza della vegetazione 2012-2019

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/pls2020571/04

 

Abstract

This study provides a first step toward the knowledge of the alien-dominated and co-dominated plant communities present in Italy. The first ever checklist of the alien phytocoenoses described or reported in literature for the Italian territory has been compiled, produced by data-mining in national and local thematic literature. The resulting vegetation-type draft-list has been checked in the light of the most recent syntaxonomic documentation and updated with regards to syntaxonomy and nomenclature, with special reference to the frame proposed in the Italian Vegetation Prodrome. The list includes 27 vascular and one bryophyte vegetation classes, hosting 194 low rank alien-dominated syntaxa. The different vegetation types detected for each syntaxonomic class and macro-vegetation group, defined by physiognomical and ecological attributes, are discussed.