The aim of the Important Plant Areas programme is to identify a network of the best sites for plant conservation throughout Europe. The programme is a mean of identifying and protecting the most important sites for wild plant (higher, lower plants, algae, lichens and fungi) and habitats. Three basic principles lead the IPA identification: criterion A, focusing on species contribution; criterion B, enhancing the importance of rich flora in a European context in relation to its biogeographic zone; criterion C, concentrating on the habitat of global or European plant conservation and botanical importance. We present the metodological approach to adapt the IPA programme to the Italian situation.
Important Plant Areas and the Natura 2000 network [Important Plant Areas e rete Natura 2000] / Blasi, Carlo; Marignani, Michela; Copiz, Riccardo. - In: FITOSOCIOLOGIA. - ISSN 1125-9078. - 44:2 SUPPL. 1(2007), pp. 57-60.
Important Plant Areas and the Natura 2000 network [Important Plant Areas e rete Natura 2000]
BLASI, Carlo;MARIGNANI, Michela;COPIZ, RICCARDO
2007
Abstract
The aim of the Important Plant Areas programme is to identify a network of the best sites for plant conservation throughout Europe. The programme is a mean of identifying and protecting the most important sites for wild plant (higher, lower plants, algae, lichens and fungi) and habitats. Three basic principles lead the IPA identification: criterion A, focusing on species contribution; criterion B, enhancing the importance of rich flora in a European context in relation to its biogeographic zone; criterion C, concentrating on the habitat of global or European plant conservation and botanical importance. We present the metodological approach to adapt the IPA programme to the Italian situation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
