Tools for Landscape-Scale Geobotany and Conservation

This book contains the papers presented at the conferences of the International Association Vegetation Science of Pirenopolis (2016) on Applied Mapping for Conservation and Management: from Plant and of Palermo (2017) on Vegetation Patterns in relation to multi-scale levels of ecological complexity: from associations to geoseries. The reports refer to general themes (semiological bases of mapping, dynamic-catenal mapping, nature conservation, plant biodiversity, biogeography, and geosynphytosociology) and their application to vegetation in different parts of the world (Andes of Bolivia, California, Kaga Coast in Japan, Southeastern USA, Morocco, Europe: Carpathians mountains, Swiss Alps, Sicily, Southern Portugal, Spain, and French Atlantic coastal). One of the benefits of the book is that it offers the possibility of comparing the different methodologies used in very different types of vegetation in the world (Boreal, Mediterranean, Tropical, Neotropical, etc.). The book is intended for researchers, Ph.D. students, and university professors.

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Basic semiologic principles to define coherent color palettes for vegetation mapping.- Plant species distributions and ecological complexity: mapping sampling-effort bias explicitly.- Mapping of biogeographical territories: flora, vegetation and landscape criteria.- Dynamic-catenal vegetation mapping as a tool for ecologic restoration, conservation and policy.- Climate Change, Wetland Management and Alpaca Pastoralism in the Bolivian High Andes Mountains.- Essays on geobotanic mapping in the Andes of Bolivia, with particular reference to the conservation status of vegetation.- Using geobotanical tools to map and assess ecosystem services (MAES) in southern Portugal.- Spatial representation of plant diversity at geographical scale: the Italian experience.- Cognitive mapping of forest fragments.- California ultramafic vegetation: a phytosociological update.- Plant associations of the Petasition officinalis alliance in the east Carpathians (Climani and Gurghiu Mountains).- Arthrocaulon (Arthrocnemum) macrostachyum plant communites in the Iberian Peninsula, Balaeric and Canary Islands (Spain and Portugal).- Geosynphytosociological typology of the French atlantic coastal rocky cliffs vegetations.- Symphytosociology: a tool for landscape monitoring: case study from the Swiss Alps.- Why does Mediterranean vegetation seem so diverse?.- Coastal dune vegetation zonation in Italy: squeezed between environmental drivers and threats.- Topographic and other constraints on evergreen broad-leaved forests in the southeastern USA.- Role of riparian zones in reducing pollution of surface and ground water, and increasing agricultural production nutrient acquisition and storage in river catchments.- Vegetation and flora of sacred natural sites in northwestern Morocco landscape context and conservation value.- The Kaga Coast in Japan: Natural ecosystem and cultural landscape insuring biodiversity.- Species and habitat biodiversity measurement and conservation at different fine scales.