Relevant habitats neglected by the Directive 92/43 EEC: the contribution of Vegetation Science for their reappraisal in Sicily

By

Guarino, Riccardo
Pasta, Salvatore
Bazan, Giuseppe
Crisafulli, Alessandro
Caldarella, Orazio
Giusso del Galdo, Gianpietro
Gristina, Alessandro Silvestre
Ilardi, Vincenzo
La Mantia, Antonino
Marcenò, Corrado
Minissale, Pietro
Sciandrello, Saverio
Scuderi, Leonardo
Spampinato, Giovanni
Troia, Angelo
Gianguzzi, Lorenzo

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021-12-31

Original Publication

Plant sociology

Volume

58

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

49--63

Subjects

Habitat Directive , Natura 2000 , Nature conservation , Sicily

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Pavia Società italiana di scienza della vegetazione 2012-2019

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/pls2021582/05

 

Abstract

Field investigation carried out by the Sicilian botanists in the last 20 years enabled them to identify eight habitat types of high biogeographic and conservation interest, neglected by the Directive 92/43, which deservead hocconservation measures. For each of these habitats, a syntaxonomic interpretation of the corresponding plant communities, their main ecological, physiognomic and syndynamic traits and a list of diagnostic species are provided. Their classification into the macrotypes listed in the Annex I of the Directive 92/43 and the respective correspondence in EUNIS habitat classification are proposed. The habitats here described integrate those already proposed by the Italian Botanical Society, with the hope of an adequate recognition at national at supranational level.