Translocations of threatened plants in the Mediterranean Basin: current status and future directions

G Fenu, G Calderisi, I Boršić, M Bou Dagher Kharrat… - Plant Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Mediterranean Basin is one of the World's plant diversity hotspots and a region
prone to several anthropic pressures, besides being one of the World's areas most …

[HTML][HTML] An early evaluation of translocation actions for endangered plant species on Mediterranean islands

G Fenu, G Bacchetta, SC Charalambos, C Fournaraki… - Plant diversity, 2019 - Elsevier
In situ conservation is widely considered a primary conservation strategy. Plant
translocation, specifically, represents an important tool for reducing the extinction risk of …

A common approach to the conservation of threatened island vascular plants: First results in the Mediterranean Basin

G Fenu, G Bacchetta, CS Christodoulou, D Cogoni… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Mediterranean islands represent a center of vascular plant diversity featuring a high rate
of endemic richness. Such richness is highly threatened, however, with many plants facing …

Is legal protection sufficient to ensure plant conservation? The Italian Red List of policy species as a case study

G Rossi, S Orsenigo, C Montagnani, G Fenu… - Oryx, 2016 - cambridge.org
The conservation of species listed in the Bern Convention and European Directive
1992/43/EEC (so-called policy species) is mandatory for European Union (EU) countries …

Best practices, errors, and perspectives of half a century of plant translocation in Italy

M D'Agostino, L Cao Pinna, M Carboni… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation translocations are becoming common conservation practice, so there is an
increasing need to understand the drivers of plant translocation performance through …

The role of fencing in the success of threatened plant species translocation

G Fenu, D Cogoni, G Bacchetta - Plant Ecology, 2016 - Springer
Plant translocation has become a widely used tool to improve the conservation status of
threatened plants. Dianthus morisianus (Caryophyllaceae) is a narrow endemic plant which …

Quality assessment of mitigation translocation protocols for protected plants in France

M Julien, B Colas, S Muller, B Schatz - Journal of environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mitigation translocations are increasingly used worldwide in response to land planning
pressures. The quality of translocation protocols and their adjustment to the ecological traits …

The relevance of plant translocation as a conservation tool in France

M Diallo, A Mayeur, AC Vaissière, B Colas - Plant Ecology, 2023 - Springer
The practice of plant translocations to mitigate the deleterious human effects on biodiversity
has been increasing over the last decades. In France, although translocations are planned …

Human trampling effects on Mediterranean coastal dune plants

E Farris, S Pisanu, G Ceccherelli… - Plant Biosystems-an …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Coastal habitats are particularly vulnerable to recreational impacts because these
environments are highly dynamic and continually change in response to biotic and abiotic …

The unpredictable fate of the single population of a threatened narrow endemic Mediterranean plant

D Cogoni, E Sulis, G Bacchetta, G Fenu - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2019 - Springer
Narrow endemic plants are highly vulnerable to extinction due to natural factors and human
disturbance because of their restricted distribution and few populations. To conserve narrow …