Shedding light on typical species: implications for habitat monitoring

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BONARI Gianmaria FANTINATO Edy LAZZARO Lorenzo SPERANDII Marta Gaia ACOSTA Alicia Teresa Rosario ALLEGREZZA Marina ASSINI Silvia CACCIANIGA Marco DI CECCO Valter FRATTAROLI Annarita GIGANTE Daniela RIVIECCIO Giovanni TESEI Giulio VALLE Barbara VICIANI Daniele ALBANI ROCCHETTI Giulia ANGIOLINI Claudia BADALAMENTI Emilio BARBERIS Davide BARCELLA Matteo BAZAN Giuseppe BERTACCHI Andrea BOLPAGNI Rossano BONINI Federica BRICCA Alessandro BUFFA Gabriella CALBI Mariasole CANNUCCI Silvia CAO PINNA Luigi CARIA Maria Carmela CARLI Emanuela CASCONE Silvia CASTI Mauro CERABOLINI Bruno Enrico Leone COPIZ Riccardo CUTINI Maurizio DE SIMONE Leopoldo DE TOMA Andrea DALLE FRATTE Michele DI MARTINO Luciano DI PIETRO Romeo FILESI Leonardo FOGGI Bruno FORTINI Paola GENNAIO Roberto GHEZA Gabriele LONATI Michele MAINETTI Andrea MALAVASI Marco MARCENO' Corrado MICHELI Carla MINUZZO Chiara MUGNAI Michele MUSARELLA Carmelo Maria NAPOLEONE Francesca NOTA Ginevra PIGA Giovanna PITTARELLO Marco POZZI Ilaria PRALESKOUSKAYA Safiya ROTA Francesco SANTINI Giacomo SARMATI Simona SELVAGGI Alberto SPAMPINATO Giovanni STINCA Adriano TOZZI Francesco Pio VENANZONI Roberto VILLANI Mariacristina ZANATTA Katia ZANZOTTERA Magda BAGELLA Simonetta

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Plant Sociology
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Citation
Web https://doi.org/10.3897/pls2020581/08
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/pls2020581/08
Keywords 92/43/EEC Directive; Diagnostic and characteristic species; Habitat monitoring; Keystone species; Natura 2000; Plant community; Structure and functions; Typical species
Description Habitat monitoring in Europe is regulated by Article 17 of the Habitats Directive, which suggests the use of typical species to assess habitat conservation status. Yet, the Directive uses the term “typical” species but does not provide a definition, either for its use in reporting or for its use in impact assessments. To address the issue, an online workshop was organized by the Italian Society for Vegetation Science (SISV) to shed light on the diversity of perspectives regarding the different concepts of typical species, and to discuss the possible im-plications for habitat monitoring. To this aim, we inquired 73 people with a very different degree of expertise in the field of vegetation science by means of a tailored survey composed of six questions. We analysed the data using Pearson's Chi-squared test to verify that the answers diverged from a random distribution and checked the effect of the degree of experience of the surveyees on the results. We found that most of the surveyees agreed on the use of the phytosociological method for habitat monitoring and of the diagnostic and characteristic species to evaluate the structural and functional conservation status of habitats. With this contribution, we shed light on the meaning of “typical” species in the context of habitat monitoring. © 2021 Societa Italiana di Scienza della Vegetazione. All rights reserved.
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