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The Mediterranean Island Wetlands (MedIsWet) inventory: strengths and shortfalls of the currently available floristic data
MedIsWet (Conservation of the island wetlands of the Mediterranean Basin) is a MAVA funded
project which aims at investigating all seasonal or permanent island wetlands both natural and
artificial, with a minimum extent of 0.1 hectares. More than 16,000 wetlands from almost all
the Mediterranean, including islands from France, Italy, Malta, Croatia, Cyprus, Tunisia,
Turkey, Greece and Spain were mapped. Over 2,500 of them were inventoried in the field and
more than 500 scientific contributions catalogued. In total, more than 35,000 plant occurrences
were uploaded, in a standardised and comparable way, on the national open-source web portals.
These can be related to the recorded threats, uses and other spatially retrievable information.
Here, we show strengths and shortfalls of the already available information about the floristic
records. Although further improvements are needed, we discuss how these data can be used for
research and policy actions and to develop conservation projects