Bruno Petriccione

Carabinieri · Biodiversity Dpt.

The present paper describes a sampling-event dataset on species belonging to two families of Diptera (Syrphidae and Asilidae) collected between 2012 and 2019 in two Italian beech forests located in the central Apennines. The reference dataset consists of an annotated checklist and has been published on Zenodo. Syrphidae and Asilidae are two widespr...

The macro-site includes the following research sites along the Apennine mountain range: LTER_EU_IT_022 – Central and Southern Apennine: Majella-Matese LTER_EU_IT_025 – Central Apennine: Velino-Duchessa LTER_EU_IT_024 – Central Apennine: Gran Sasso LTER_EU_IT_023 – Northern Apennine It consists of “orographic islands” with high elevation vegetation...

Starting from reflections on crises in science and society (Benessia and Funtowicz, 2013; Guimaraes Pereira and Funtowicz, 2015; Benessia et al., 2016) and on the role and responsibility of researchers in a context where calls for a greater public engagement in the process of knowledge building have increased (Owen et al., 2012 Davies, 2014), this...

Local biodiversity trends over time are likely to be decoupled from global trends, as local processes may compensate or counteract global change. We analyze 161 long-term biological time series (15–91 years) collected across Europe, using a comprehensive dataset comprising ~6,200 marine, freshwater and terrestrial taxa. We test whether (i) local lo...

Indicatori vegetazionali di qualità ambientale

Mountain ecosystems are sensitive indicators of climate change. Long-term studies may be extremely useful in assessing the responses of high-elevation ecosystems to climate change and other anthropogenic drivers. Mountain research sites within the LTER (Long-Term Ecosystem Research) network are representative of various types of ecosystems and span...

Since 1986, vegetation monitoring of alpine plant communities has been performed at the Gran Sasso d’Italia LTER site (https://deims.org/c0738b00-854c-418f-8d4f-69b03486e9fd) in the Central Apennines, through phytosociological relevés and abundance and coverage estimation of the vascular flora at fine scale. The monitoring activities for abiotic pa...

Mountain ecosystems are sensitive and reliable indicators of climate change. Long-term studies may be extremely useful in assessing the responses of high-elevation ecosystems to climate change and other anthropogenic drivers from a broad ecological perspective. Mountain research sites within the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) network are repr...

In this work new floristic records for 46 units are reported for some regions of Central Italy. Particularly 25 are new or confirmed to Abruzzo, 1 is new to Marche and 1 to Molise. In addition new distribution data for 18 units rare or interesting in Abruzzo and 1 in Molise regions have been recorded. The survey was carried out from 2010 to 2015 th...

Human activities impinge on vegetation through different mechanisms, or drivers of change, and different habitats vary in their sensitivity to these drivers. Increasing concern about environmental change has created a requirement for long-term vegetation change data that can quantify and characterise the change in a meaningful way. Botanical re-sur...

Climate change, ozone effects on forests as well as the loss of biodiversity are nowadays the top priorities of environmental monitoring programmes in Europe. The first set of twenty Level II PMPs (Permanent Monitoring Plots) of the CONECOFOR programme was installed in 1995. At the moment, the intensive monitoring network includes 31 PMPs. All the...

The 1995-2005 time series obtained from the original set of 20 plots have been recently analysed in the framework of the Integrated and Combined (I&C) evaluation system of the programme. In this paper, results obtained, problems encountered and future perspectives are summarized.

There is much public concern about threats to global biodiversity. Industrial pollution, changes in agricultural practices and climate change, are all having a direct impact on biodiversity. In this book the Editors provide a broad view of the many pressures imposed by human-induced changes and the many threats to global biodiversity and of the pol...

Ozone (O3) exposure at Italian background sites exceeds UN/ECE concentration-based critical levels (CLe(c)), if expressed in terms of AOT40. Yet the occurrence of adverse effects of O3 on forests and crops is controversial. Possible reasons include (i) ability of response indicators to provide an unbiased estimate of O3 effects, (ii) setting of cur...

Monitoring of forest condition and ozone (O3) at 83 sites in France, Italy, Luxenbourg, Spain and Switzerland resulted in a number of findings in relation to the knowledge of O3 exposure (concentration and cumulative AOT40), feasibility of the assessment of stomatal O3 flux and relationships between O3 and crown defoliation of beech and visible sym...

The paper provides basic information about background, objectives and structure of O3SWE (Ozone at the permanent monitoring plots in South-Western Europe), an international co-operative project aimed at evaluating O3 concentrations, cumulative exposure, uptake and effects on forest vegetation in four countries of South-Western Europe (France, Italy...

Biodiversity is a central issue in forest ecosystem management and its maintenance is a serious concern both at national and global level. This paper summarizes the investigations related to biodiversity currently carried out at the intensive monitoring plots of the CONECOFOR programme. Forest structure, species diversity (vascular plants, epiphyti...

Recent changes in species composition and abundance in seven plant communities characteristic of Central-European, Sub-Atlantic and Alpine belts of the Central Apennines (oak and beech forest, dwarf-shrubland, high-mountain grassland and alpine tundra) were analysed on the basis of 30 permanent plots. Plots, 100–300 m2 in area, were selected in the...

Phytosociological knowledge of plant communities and their synecological allocation are the reference basis of the CONECOFOR Programme. Vegetation surveys are performed in all the CONECOFOR plots (28), and have been performed in most of them for 6-7 years, following two fundamental approaches: (1) phytosociological (plant community level) and (2) d...

Following EU Regulation no. 1091/94, the Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry Policy (National Forest Service) has since 1995 sponsored the "National Integrated Programme for Forest Ecosystems Monitoring" (CONECOFOR), implemented to study the ef- fects of atmospheric pollution and climate change on forest ecosystems. The Programme also operates wi...

The paper summarises the contents of the present volume devoted to forest research in Italy, within the National Programme for Forest Ecosystem Monitoring (CONECOFOR), part of the Level II forest monitoring, and other linked regional and provincial monitoring activities. The coordination of the project, through a National Focal Centre and a Task Fo...

La flora marolichenica dell'Isola di Zannone è stata studiata secondo un approccio floristico ed ecologico. Essa è costituita da 29 specie, 21 delle quali trovate per la prima volta a Zannone e 15 mai segnalate prima in alcuna isola dell'Arcipelago Pontino. I reperti più interessanti sono costituiti da 7 specie del genere Ramalina, quasi tutte rare...

A new methodology has been developed on the basis of the theoretical environmental quality level in the territory of Abruzzo National Park (Central Itaty), for a quantitative land evaluation. Data bases were derived from flora and vegetation mapping of the beechwood communities. A structural study on four small experimental stands, selected in a wi...