Contribution to the vascular flora of Castelvecchio nature reserve (Central Tuscany, Italy)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F18%3A00112521" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/18:00112521 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2424/ASTSN.M.2018.13" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2424/ASTSN.M.2018.13</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2424/ASTSN.M.2018.13" target="_blank" >10.2424/ASTSN.M.2018.13</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Contribution to the vascular flora of Castelvecchio nature reserve (Central Tuscany, Italy)
Original language description
Contribution to the vascular flora of Castelvecchio Nature Reserve (central Tuscany, Italy). This study reports the outcomes of botanical surveys of vascular plants carried out in the Castelvecchio Nature Reserve, located in the Municipality of San Gimignano (Siena province). The Reserve has an extension of 6.28 km2 with a predominance of calcareous bedrock. The compiled floristic inventory of the Reserve includes 454 species and subspecies, divided into 73 families and 185 genera. Data on life forms and chorological types are provided. The life-form spectrum revealed a dominance of hemicryptophytes followed by terophytes, whereas the chorological spectrum showed a majority of species with Eurasiatic distribution as opposed to a Mediterranean one, in line with the local macro and microclimatic conditions. Rare species in central Tuscany - such as Cleistogenes serotina subsp. serotina, Ononis natrix and Phagnalon sordidum - and two species on the Italian Red List - Galanthus nivalis and Ruscus aculeatus - were recorded. Also of interest is the occurrence of phytogeographically relevant entities as Taxus baccata and populations of Fagus sylvatica subsp. sylvatica outside of its altitudinal belt. Compared to other areas of central and southern Tuscany, the Italian endemics - Digitalis micrantha, Helleborus viridis subsp. bocconei, Hieracium pallidum subsp. lanudae, Melampyrum italicum, Polygala flavescens subsp. flavescens, Scabiosa uniseta - were less numerous. The Reserve does not have a species pool typical of limestone as other protected areas of central or southern Tuscany. However, the mosaic of different communities, combined with geological and microclimatic factors, makes the Reserve highly relevant for the conservation of biodiversity in central Tuscany. Its peculiarity is the presence of isolated populations of mesophilous species that are confined to ravines with a cool microclimate and are in contact with xerophilous species of calcareous garrigues. Besides a valuable heterogeneity of environments in the Reserve it is worth nothing that there are only fourteen alien species, mainly with a casual status of invasivity. © 2018 Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali. Ltd.All Rights Reserved.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10611 - Plant sciences, botany
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Atti della Società toscana di scienze naturali residente in Pisa. Memorie. Serie B
ISSN
0365-7450
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
125
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2018
Country of publishing house
IT - ITALY
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
77-86
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85062989891