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    Il Parco Nazionale della ValGrande nell'ambito del progetto "Boschi vetusti nei parchi nazionali italiani"

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    Stria dei boschi del Parco nazionale della valGrande. Stato di fatto e dinamiche in atto. Definizione di "bosco vetusto" e nuclei "vetusti" individuat

    Vegetazione "reale" e "potenziale": le serie dinamiche ed il ritorno del bosco perduto

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    Formalizzazione e descrizione delle Serie dinamiche di vegetazione. Alcuni esempi per i boschi lombard

    Pioneer herbaceous vegetation on glacier forelands from the Italian Alps

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    Abstract. The pioneer vegetation of the Holocene moraines of some Italian glaciers was studied by a phytosociological approach. Particular attention was given to mid-successional communities on stabilized terrains (19th century moraines). Sixty-seven releve ́s were performed on the forelands of 8 glaciers from the central and western Italian Alps, from continental inner alpine to oceanic prealpine areas. Early as well as late successional stages were sampled. Releve ́s were analyzed by cluster analysis using the Jaccard index and UPGMA as the clustering method. Two main clusters could be separated: 1) pioneer, low cover communities of recent and/or disturbed moraines; 2) high cover communities of already stabilized moraines, mainly ice-free since the 19th century. The first group included the pioneer community Sieversio-Oxyrietum digynae Friedel 1956, which can be divided into three subassociations: typicum, androsacetosum alpinae subass. nov. and a subtype with Epilobium fleischeri and Saxifraga aizoides. The second group includes species-rich coenoses occurring on stable but gravel terrains, ascribed to the Saxifrago bryoidis-Poetum alpinae ass. nov. (including subassociations trifolietosum pallescentis subass. nov. and salicetosum retusae subass. nov.), and continuous grasslands dominated by Poa alpina and Agrostis rupestris. The last type could be divided into a rankless Luzula alpinopilosa community and a Trifolium pallescens grassland (Agrostio rupestris-Trifolietum pallescentis ass. nov.). These plant communities are differentiated by many environmental factors. Terrain age and related parameters seem to play the main role: low-cover pioneer communities grow on 20th century deposits, whereas high-cover communities occur mainly on already stabilized moraines dating back to the 19th century. Altitude, aspect, insolation, morphology and parent material can also be determinant; altitude should be taken into account considering the local context of the altitudinal belts, which depends on the degree of continentality. Although highly variable, the Sieversio-Oxyrietum digynae should not include all the pioneer stages recorded from glacier forelands. This is supported by a synoptic table based on our data and on published releve ́s from the Austrian, Swiss and Italian Alps. Keywords: Alpine Belt, Androsacion alpinae, primary succession, Sieversio-Oxyrietum digynae

    Serie dinamica del bosco a Rovere: il caso del Parco nazionale Val Grande (VCO)

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    Viene ricostruita la serie dinamica del bosco a rovere nel Parco Nazionale Val Grande (VCO), quale caso di studio esportabile a tutta l’area prealpina occidentale suboceanica, per analogia di clima e substrato. Sono state cartografate, in ambiente GIS, le aree di pertinenza della serie sulla base delle caratteristiche climatiche e fi siche del territorio. Entro tali aree sono stati effettuati 48 rilievi fi tosociologici che hanno compreso tutti gli stadi serali della vegetazione, per poi procedere con l’analisi delle fi tocenosi individuate e la loro interpretazione in chiave dinamica. Risultato dello studio è l’individuazione di sei fi - tocenosi, quattro delle quali (pteridieti, calluneti, betuleti, rovereti) fra loro collegate da un legame dinamico, suggerito da analisi fl oristiche quali-quantitative sull’abbondanza delle specie e dall’analisi dei parametri ecologico-stazionali tramite CCA.Ecological succession of sessile oak woods: Val Grande National Park (Italian Western Alps) as a case study. We assessed the ecological succession of sessile oak (Quercus petraea) woods in Val Grande National Park (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italian Western Alps), as an example available for all the western prealpine insubric area. With GIS we have deduced the map of the areas of pertinence of Quercus petraea, based on climatic and physical characteristics of the territory. Within these areas we carried out 48 phytosociological relevés according to Braun-Blanquet method, assessing all stages of the ecological succession. As a main result the Cluster Analysis individuated 6 phytocenoses and 4 of the them (Pteridium aquilinum grasslands, Calluna vulgaris moors, Betula pendula woods, Quercus petraea woods) have a dynamic link suggested by quali-quantitative analysis about species ecology and abundance and by several environmental parameters analyzed by CCA
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