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Patterns of co-occurrence of rare and threatened species in winter arable plant communities of Italy / Emanuele Fanfarillo in Diversity, 12 (5) (May 2020) 

Public Citation [article]  inDiversity > 12 (5) (May 2020) . - 195 Titre : Patterns of co-occurrence of rare and threatened species in winter arable plant communities of Italy Type de document : Imprimé Auteurs : Emanuele Fanfarillo ; Marta Latini ; Giovanna Abbate Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : 195 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [CBNPMP-Géographique] Italie [CBNPMP-Thématique] Messicole Résumé : Detecting patterns of species co-occurrence is among the main tasks of plant community ecology. Arable plant communities are important elements of agroecosystems, because they support plant and animal biodiversity and provide ecosystem services. These plant communities are shaped by both agricultural and environmental drivers. The pressure of intensive agriculture worldwide has caused the decline of many characteristic arable species and communities. Italy is the European country where arable plant biodiversity is the best preserved. In this study, we assessed the patterns of co-occurrence of rare and threatened arable plants in 106 plots of winter arable vegetation located from Piedmont to Calabria, in the mainland part of the country. For this purpose, we based our investigation on the analysis of a recently acquired dataset and on the European list of rare and threatened arable plants. We highlight how different species of conservation interest tend to occur in the same community. On the other hand, generalist and more competitive taxa show similar patterns of co-occurrence. We suggest that single species of conservation value could be suitable indicators of a well-preserved community. On the other hand, to be effective, conservation strategies should target the whole community, rather than single species. Lien pérenne : DOI : 10.3390/d12050195 Permalink : https://biblio.cbnpmp.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=148496 Fanfarillo, Emanuele, Latini, Marta, Abbate, Giovanna 2020 Patterns of co-occurrence of rare and threatened species in winter arable plant communities of Italy. Diversity, 12(5): 195.

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Summer roadside vegetation dominated by Sorghum halepense in peninsular Italy: survey and classification / Emanuele Fanfarillo in Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, 33 (2022) 

Public Citation [article]  inRendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali > 33 (2022) . - 93-104 Titre : Summer roadside vegetation dominated by Sorghum halepense in peninsular Italy: survey and classification Type de document : Imprimé Auteurs : Emanuele Fanfarillo ; Giulio Zangari ; Filip Küzmič ; Tiberio Fiaschi ; Gianmaria Bonari ; Claudia Angiolini Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : 93-104 Catégories : [CBNPMP-Thématique] Plantes subspontanées, naturalisées, envahissantes Mots-clés : Sorghum halepense Résumé : Sorghum halepense is a synanthropic tall grass distributed worldwide from tropical to temperate zones, and it is often considered an invasive alien. It is a perennial, rhizomatous plant that tends to form dense stands derived from vegetative and sexual propagation. Despite roadside plant communities dominated by Sorghum halepense are very common in southern Europe, their phytosociological aspects are scarcely studied. In this work, we present the results of a vegetation survey in peninsular Italy, carried out by means of the phytosociological method. In total, we carried out 73 relevés in Liguria, Tuscany, Latium, Campania, Basilicata, and Apulia. We statistically compared our relevés to those from the Balkans classified in the Cynodonto-Sorghetum halepensis, an association of agricultural annual weed vegetation of the class Stellarietea mediae s.l. used in the past as a reference for Italian S. halepense-dominated communities. Our results show that the Italian communities are different from the Cynodonto–Sorghetum halepensis communities, since the latter are rich in annual species, while the former are rich in perennial species. From the syntaxonomic point of view, the Italian communities are better classified in the class Artemisietea vulgaris. We describe the new (sub-)ruderal association Potentillo reptantis–Sorghetum halepensis, including a meso-hygrophilous variant with Urtica dioica and an agricultural variant with Elymus repens. We have evidence that the Potentillo–Sorghetum occurs in Italy, Kosovo and Slovenia, but its distribution is possibly wider due to conspicuous presence of cosmopolitan species characterizing the association. Our work provides a baseline for the knowledge of an alien-dominated plant community that can invade habitats with high conservation value. Lien pérenne : DOI : 10.1007/s12210-022-01050-3 Permalink : https://biblio.cbnpmp.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=151160 Fanfarillo, Emanuele, Zangari, Giulio, Küzmič, Filip, Fiaschi, Tiberio, Bonari, Gianmaria, Angiolini, Claudia 2022 Summer roadside vegetation dominated by Sorghum halepense in peninsular Italy: survey and classification. Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, 33: 93-104.

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