ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

The study of ecological succession to determine how plant communities re-assemble after a
natural or anthropogenic disturbance has always been an important topic in ecology. The …

A concise methodological and conceptual overview of the present state of phytosociology,
100 years after its foundation, is presented. The fullness of phytosociology as a …

We discuss the usefulness of the concept of Potential Natural Vegetation (PNV), which
describes the expected state of mature vegetation in the absence of human intervention. We …

Assessment of past anthropogenic modifications of land-cover dynamics is key to
understanding the human role in the Earth system. Recent advances in …

Bioclimatology deals with the interrelation between climate and living organisms, in
particular, plants and plant communities, considering the main climate variables that are …

Purpose Rarely considered in environmental assessment methods, potential land use
impacts on a series of ecosystem services must be accounted for in widely used decision …

Cultural landscapes are poorly inventoried and evaluated in protected natural areas. This
study presents a novel procedure to assess cultural landscape features and their cultural …

The methodological foundations of the recently published Manual for Annex I Habitats
monitoring in Italy, edited by the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research …

This paper deals with the recent debate on the potential natural vegetation (PNV) concept.
After reviewing its limitations with respect to understanding of the processes involved in …