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Guida all’Entemofauna del Parco della Murgia Materana
No full textGuida all'entomofauna del Parco della Murgia Materan
Establishing a Geopark in the Alta Murgia (Italy)
No full textEstablishing a Geopark in the Alta Murgia (Italy)
Mario Parise¹, , Massimo A. Caldara¹, Vincenzo Festa¹, Ruggero Francescangeli¹, Vincenzo Lurilli¹, Giuseppe A. Mastronuzzi¹, Domenico Nicoletti², Luisa Sabato¹, Luigi Spalluto¹, Francesco Tarantini², and Marcello Tropeano¹
¹Department of Earth and Environmental Sceince, Aldo Moro University, Bari, Italy, ²Alta Murgia National Park, Gravina in Puglia (Bari), Italy
Abstract
Apulia is an elongated peninsula of south-eastern Italy, almost entirely developed in carbonate rocks, intensely affected by karst processes: more than 2,000 karst caves, with a great variety of karst landscape and land- forms, characterize the region at the surface and under- ground. Its central part is called Murgia, a name coming from a pre-indoeuropean language meaning rock, due to its bare aspect. From the geological and palaeo-geographical standpoints, this sector belongs to the Apulia Platform, one of the Periadriatic platforms developed on the Adria Plate and that survived until the end of the Cretaceous. It is the only one that was not involved in orogenic processes, still rooted to the basement, thus representing a geological uniqueness since Murgia karst could record some phases of the post- Cretaceous Adria development. In 2004 the National Park “Alta Murgia” was established: it includes 70 hectares, in 13 municipalities, and is subdivided into three zones with different levels of protection. Further, the area is included within the largest Site Nature 2000 in Italy. Karst is definitely the main process shaping the landscape in the Murgia, with collapse dolines as the “Pulo” (700 m- large, and 90 m-deep), and the Gravina “Pulicchio” (500 m-large and 110 m-deep). Among the most remarkable evidences of the area, the limestone surface at the Pontrelli quarry, hosts thousands of dinosaur footprints, and an extraordinary well- preserved Neanderthal skeleton. This poster illustrates the main geological and karst features of Murgia, aimed at establishing a Geopark in the area
Presenza corsara nel Mediterraneo occidentale e problemi di difesa nel Regno di Sardegna (secoli XVI-XVII)
No full textIl saggio affronta le problematiche legate al problema della difesa delle coste dei Regni della Coroina d'Aragona, e con particolare riferimento alla Sardegna, tra XVI e XVII secolo
Stipa austroitalica Martinovsky ssp. austroitalica grasslands of Alta Murgia (Apulia) and Murgia Materana (Basilicata)
No full textThis paper deals with grasslands dominated by Stipa austroitalica ssp. austroitalica in the districts of National Park of Alta Murgia (central Apulia) and Regional Park of Murge Materane (south-east of Basilicata). Phytosociological analyses have been carried out in order to contribute to knowledge of these grasslands syntaxonomy. The phytoclimatic outline of the area under study has been obtained by processing the thermal and rainfall data recorded at the weatherstations of Altamura, Castel del Monte (Alta Murgia) and Matera (Murge Materane) and computing bioclimatic indexes (according to the methods of Rivas Martinez and of Montero de Burgos and González Rebollar). The vegetation study has been performed through 31 phytosociological relevés. The matrix, relevés by species, has been analysed by classification and ordination multivariate techniques in order to highlight homogeneous groups. The phytoclimate of the area can be ascribed to the pluvioseasonal-oceanic type of the Mediterranean macrobioclimate, with a mesomediterranean thermotype and a continental tendency. Murge Materane phytoclimate results more thermo-xeric than Alta Murgia one. Phytosociological and statistical multivariate analyses have pointed out two main groups of relevés corresponding to two new associations: Acino suaveolentis-Stipetum austroitalicae e Chamaecytiso spinescentis-Stipetum austroitalicae. These latter have been framed in a new alliance (Hippocrepido glaucae-Stipion austroitalicae) of Scorzonero-Chrysopogonetalia, that gathers calcareous steppe grasslands of Festuco-Brometea, with accentuated Mediterranean characters. The results of this study show the affinity between S. austroitalica ssp. austroitalica grasslands of south-east of Italy and vegetation of trans-Adriatic and north-Adriatic Carso areas. Moreover, they contribute to define the westward part of Scorzonero-Chrysopogonetalia range, which thus would include also the inner part of central Apulia and eastern Basilicata
Vulnerability map of Murgia aquifer: a test area to the south-est of Bari
No full textThe SINTACS method for the aquifer vulnerability evaluation is experimented in a selected area of the Murgia hydrogeological unit (southern Italy). The test area is representative for the large and deep carbonate Murgia aquifer and for anthropic effects on groundwater.PublishedN/A or not JCRope
Intrinsic vulnerability of a test site of karstic Murgia aquifer (Apulia)
No full textThe SINTACS method for the aquifer vulnerability evaluation is experimented in a selected area of the Murgia hydrogeological unit (southern Italy). The test area is representative for the large and deep carbonate Murgia aquifer and for anthropic effects on groundwater. The experience of mapping elaboration, based a complex monitoring activity, is described.Published11-20N/A or not JCRope
Le praterie a Stipa austroitalica Martinovsky ssp. austroitalica dell’Alta Murgia (Puglia) e della Murgia Materana (Basilicata)
No full textThis paper deals with
grasslands dominated by Stipa austroitalica ssp. austroitalica in the districts of National Park of Alta Murgia (central Apulia) and Regional Park of
Murge Materane (south-east of Basilicata). Phytosociological analyses have been carried out in order to contribute to knowledge of these grasslands
syntaxonomy. The phytoclimatic outline of the area under study has been obtained by processing the thermal and rainfall data recorded at the weatherstations
of Altamura, Castel del Monte (Alta Murgia) and Matera (Murge Materane) and computing bioclimatic indexes (according to the methods of
Rivas Martinez and of Montero de Burgos and González Rebollar). The vegetation study has been performed through 31 phytosociological relevés.
The matrix, relevés by species, has been analysed by classification and ordination multivariate techniques in order to highlight homogeneous groups.
The phytoclimate of the area can be ascribed to the pluvioseasonal-oceanic type of the Mediterranean macrobioclimate, with a mesomediterranean
thermotype and a continental tendency. Murge Materane phytoclimate results more thermo-xeric than Alta Murgia one. Phytosociological and statistical
multivariate analyses have pointed out two main groups of relevés corresponding to two new associations: Acino suaveolentis-Stipetum austroitalicae
e Chamaecytiso spinescentis-Stipetum austroitalicae. These latter have been framed in a new alliance (Hippocrepido glaucae-Stipion austroitalicae)
of Scorzonero-Chrysopogonetalia, that gathers calcareous steppe grasslands of Festuco-Brometea, with accentuated Mediterranean characters. The
results of this study show the affinity between S. austroitalica ssp. austroitalica grasslands of south-east of Italy and vegetation of trans-Adriatic and
north-Adriatic Carso areas. Moreover, they contribute to define the westward part of Scorzonero-Chrysopogonetalia range, which thus would include
also the inner part of central Apulia and eastern Basilicata
Vulnerability map of Murgia aquifer: a test area to the south-est of Bari
No full textThe SINTACS method for the aquifer vulnerability evaluation is experimented in a selected area of the Murgia hydrogeological unit (southern Italy). The test area is representative for the large and deep carbonate Murgia aquifer and for anthropic effects on groundwater.PublishedN/A or not JCRope
Intrinsic vulnerability of a test site of karstic Murgia aquifer (Apulia)
No full textThe SINTACS method for the aquifer vulnerability evaluation is experimented in a selected area of the Murgia hydrogeological unit (southern Italy). The test area is representative for the large and deep carbonate Murgia aquifer and for anthropic effects on groundwater. The experience of mapping elaboration, based a complex monitoring activity, is described.Published11-20N/A or not JCRope
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