Spatial connectivity and boundary patterns in coastal dune vegetation in the Circeo National Park, Central Italy

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Acosta ◽  
Carlo Blasi ◽  
Angela Stanisci
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Coastal Dune ◽  
Dune Vegetation ◽  
Spatial Connectivity ◽  
Coastal Dune Vegetation

scholarly journals Natural Protected Areas as Special Sentinels of Littering on Coastal Dune Vegetation

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Carla de Francesco ◽  
Maria Laura Carranza ◽  
Marco Varricchione ◽  
Francesco Pio Tozzi ◽  
Angela Stanisci
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Coastal Dunes ◽  
Coastal Dune ◽  
Litter Production ◽  
Ecological Value ◽  
Dune Vegetation ◽  
Natural Protected Areas ◽  
Litter Accumulation ◽  
Coastal Dune Vegetation

Beach litter threatens coastal dunes integrity across the world. European countries are committed to improving the environmental status of the marine and coastal environment by 2020, and to do this, they need to reduce the gap of knowledge about litter accumulation patterns in coastal environments. We analyzed the distribution pattern of waste, differentiated by material and origin, in the coastal dune vegetation mosaic along protected natural areas in the Adriatic seashore (central Italy). Litter data were collected following a random stratified procedure. We registered litter occurrence on 180 (2 × 2 m) sampling plots randomly distributed in the different habitats of European conservation concern mapped for the analyzed protected areas. Litter was classified by origin and material, and their abundance on different habitats was explored by multivariate ordination techniques and tested by nonparametric ANOVA followed by Mann-Whitney pairwise post-hoc tests. Most of the plots included at least one waste element being plastic. Plastic was the most abundant material, and fishing and touristic the most polluting activities. Waste distribution varies across coastal dune vegetation types and involves the back dune zone too. Our results stress the need for (a) specific cleaning tasks able to preserve the ecological value of coastal dune habitats and (b) actions aimed at preventing litter production and accumulation.

Susceptibility of Plant Species in Coastal Dune Vegetation of South-western Australia to Killing by Armillaria luteobubalina

1998 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 321 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. L. Shearer ◽  
C. E. Crane ◽  
R. G. Fairman ◽  
M. J. Grant
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Coastal Dune ◽  
Dune Vegetation ◽  
Species Frequency ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Coastal Dune Vegetation ◽  
Cross Tabulation

Estimates of the susceptibility of plant species of coastal dune vegetation tokilling by Armillaria luteobubalina Watling & Kilewere obtained from the occurrence of mycelial sheaths of the pathogen beneaththe bark of the root collars of dead plants in 62 disease centres.Dicotyledons (Magnoliopsida) outnumbered monocotyledons (Liliopsida), being81% of the 330 plant species found in disease centres in coastalvegetation. Fifty-one percent of the species were from five Magnoliopsidafamilies with the largest number of species from the Myrtaceae and Proteaceae.Eleven percent of the species were from three Liliopsida families with thelargest number of species from the Cyperaceae. Thirty-four percent of speciesoccurred in three or more disease centres. Thirty-eight percent, or a total of125 of all species, were killed by A. luteobubalina incoastal vegetation. Hosts on which the pathogen did not reach the root collarwould not have been detected. The largest number of species killed were fromthe Proteaceae (26% of species killed) followed by Myrtaceae,Epacridaceae, Papilionaceae and Mimosaceae. Only 6% of species killedwere from the Liliopsida. The distribution of species frequency and thosekilled by infection is positively skewed, with 40% of species notkilled in any centre and 8% killed in greater than 75% of thecentres in which they occurred. The percentage of disease centres in which aspecies occurred and was killed by A. luteobubalina issignificantly linearly correlated with mortality rating and relativeimportance. Cross-tabulation of species by disease centres in which plantswere killed provided the opportunity to classify the relative susceptibilityof plant species to killing by A. luteobubalina.

scholarly journals VegDunes – a coastal dune vegetation database for the analysis of Italian EU habitats

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 191-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Prisco ◽  
Marta Carboni ◽  
Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Dune ◽  
Dune Vegetation ◽  
Vegetation Database ◽  
Coastal Dune Vegetation

scholarly journals DOONIES: A process-based ecogeomorphological functional community model for coastal dune vegetation and landscape dynamics

Geomorphology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 108037
Author(s):  
Bianca R. Charbonneau ◽  
Adam Duarte ◽  
Todd M. Swannack ◽  
Bradley D. Johnson ◽  
Candice D. Piercy
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Dynamics ◽  
Coastal Dune ◽  
Dune Vegetation ◽  
Functional Community ◽  
Community Model ◽  
Coastal Dune Vegetation
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