Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments : 1

In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of six plant species according to IUCN categories and criteria are presented. It includes the assessment at global level of Linaria tonzigii Lona, Allium garganicum Brullo, Pavone, Salmeri & Terrasi, Ferula arrigonii Bocchieri, Orchis patens Desf. subsp. patens and Armeria saviana Selvi and the assessment at regional level (Italy) of Viola jordanii Hanry

Preliminary results of floristic and vegetational surveys in three coastal humid areas in Puglia region (southern Italy).

This paper presents the preliminary results of an INTERREG project (III A Italy-Greece 2000-2006) concerning the improvement and management of common ecosystems. This project includes several humid areas located within the northwestern regions of Greece and the Italian region of Apulia. Owing to their similar paleogeographical and paleoclimatical accidents these areas exhibits several floristic and coenological peculiarities which lead to their inclusion in the Adriatic Province of the eastern Mediterranean biogeographical sub-region. The project involves making a GIS which permits the acquisition, processing, analysis, storage and feedback in graphic and alphanumeric form of the ecological data collected in three of the most significant coastal humid protected areas of the Apulia region, namely “Torre Guaceto”, “Le Cesine”, and “Saline di Punta della Contessa”. The importance of these humid areas can be inferred simply by observing the high number of Dir. 92/43/EEC habitats they contain. It is well-known that there are many negative factors which are currently threatening the Mediterranean retro-dunal ecosystems such as air and water pollution, urbanization, the impact of mass tourism, coastal erosion, lowering of the ground water table (etc.). These areas therefore urgently require a system of constant monitoring and, where necessary, actions to restore vegetation. All this demands a background of landscape knowledge concerning the small-scale vegetation pattern (actual heterogeneity) and the potential vegetation types (potential heterogeneity) as well. The three Apulian areas in the present study can easily be distinguished from each other from a floristic and coenological point of view. In addition to the slight (but probably crucial) differences in their physical environments, the existing diversity in the vegetation is more closely related to the minor and "unofficial" biogeographical boundaries prevailing in the part of the Apulian region and to the variation of the ecological optimum of several diagnostic species (Quercus ilex, Quercus calliprinos, Erica forskalii, Cladium mariscus, Plantago albicans, Limonium apulum....) than to the effective interruption of their distribution areas

Schede per una Lista Rossa della Flora vascolare e crittogamica Italiana: Klasea lycopifolia (Vill.) Á.Löve et D.Löve.

Viene redatta la scheda relativa a Klasea lycopifolia nell'ambito del progetto Liste Rosse per la Flora Italian

Loci classici dei taxa endemici italiani descritti per la Toscana.

In the work are the data on the locus classicus of 99 endemic plants of Tuscan

Schede per una Lista Rossa della Flora vascolare e crittogamica Italiana - Gentiana lutea L. s.l.

Schede per una Lista Rossa della Flora vascolare e crittogamica Italiana- Gentiana lutea L. s.l

Red list of threatened vascular plants in Italy

Italy has a rich natural heritage, which is dangerously under pressure. In recent years, there is an increased awareness of the crucial role of plants in ecosystem functioning and in providing ecosystem services. Consequently, an updated Red List of the Italian vascular flora was compiled in this work, at the request of the Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea Protection, with the scientific support of the Italian Botanical Society. The IUCN Red List criteria were applied to 2,430 Italian native vascular plant taxa to assess their current extinction risk and to highlight the major threats affecting the Italian flora. Our results revealed that 54 taxa (2.2% of the assessed taxa) are extinct or possibly extinct at regional level, while 590 taxa (24.3%) were assigned to a risk category. Moreover, 404 taxa (16.6%) were categorized as Data Deficient. The Italian vascular flora is primarily threatened by habitat modifications due to anthropic disturbance and, especially, to agriculture, tourism and residential development. Coastal areas and lowlands, where anthropogenic impacts and ecosystem destruction are more pronounced, host the greatest number of extinct or declining taxa. Our results represent an important baseline to establish conservation priorities, legislative choices and intervention strategies on a national scale

Loci classici delle piante vascolari endemiche italiane descritte per la Puglia

loci classici of the Italian endemic vascular plants described for Apulia -.the italian endemic vascular plants described for apulia Region are presented. altogether, 66 italian endemics have their locus classicus in apulia, including 9 taxa whose protologues cite several localities, both in apulia and in other Regions