An updated checklist of the vascular flora alien to Italy

G Galasso, F Conti, L Peruzzi… - Plant Biosystems-An …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
An updated inventory of the vascular flora alien to Italy, providing details on the occurrence
at regional level, is presented. The checklist includes 1597 species, subspecies, and …

Impact of invasive alien plants on native plant communities and Natura 2000 habitats: State of the art, gap analysis and perspectives in Italy

L Lazzaro, R Bolpagni, G Buffa, R Gentili… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Invasive alien plants are a major threat to biodiversity and they contribute to the
unfavourable conservation status of habitats of interest to the European Community. In order …

[HTML][HTML] Prioritizing management actions for invasive non-native plants through expert-based knowledge and species distribution models

V Lozano, F Marzialetti, ATR Acosta, I Arduini… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Given the high number of non-native plants that are being introduced worldwide and the
time required to process formal pest risk analyses, a framework for the prioritization of …

Alien flora in Calabria (Southern Italy): an updated checklist

G Spampinato, VLA Laface, G Posillipo, A Cano Ortiz… - Biological …, 2022 - Springer
An updated checklist of the Calabrian alien vascular flora is presented. By way of field,
bibliographic, and herbarium research, we recorded 382 alien taxa (representing almost …

Here to stay. Recent advances and perspectives about Acacia invasion in Mediterranean areas

P Souza-Alonso, J Rodríguez, L González… - Annals of Forest …, 2017 - Springer
Key message The above-and belowground impacts due to Acacia invasions have been
described in detail over the last 25 years. Future research should focus on the early …

Alien plants of Europe: introduction pathways, gateways and time trends

M Arianoutsou, I Bazos, A Christopoulou, Y Kokkoris… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Abstract The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) pathways classification framework
used in the implementation of the European Union's (EU) Regulation 1143/2014 on invasive …

Alien plant invasions in Mediterranean habitats: an assessment for Sicily

R Guarino, M Chytrý, F Attorre, F Landucci… - Biological Invasions, 2021 - Springer
Levels of plant invasions in different habitat types were assessed in several regional studies,
but few of them were from the Mediterranean. Here we compare the levels of vascular plant …

Anthropogenic and environmental determinants of alien plant species spatial distribution on an island scale

PG Dimitrakopoulos, S Koukoulas, C Michelaki… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mediterranean islands are considered especially vulnerable to biological invasions by alien
plants. However, there is a lack of studies on island scale regarding the factors that …

The invasion history of Elodea canadensis and E. nuttallii (Hydrocharitaceae) in Italy from herbarium accessions, field records and historical literature

F Buldrini, G Pezzi, M Barbero, A Alessandrini… - Biological …, 2023 - Springer
We analysed the invasion history of two North American macrophytes (Elodea canadensis
and E. nuttallii) in Italy, through an accurate census of all available herbarium and field …

Endemic and alien vascular plant diversity in the small Mediterranean islands of Sardinia: Drivers and implications for their conservation

M Fois, L Podda, F Médail, G Bacchetta - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Islands are of high interest for conservationists, due to their great biodiversity within discrete
territories. Nonetheless, several mechanisms of plant diversity patterns are unknown …