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Plant Landscape of Corsica - Typology and Mapping Plant Landscape of Cap Corse Region and Biguglia Pond (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Plant Landscape of Corsica - Typology and Mapping Plant Landscape of Cap Corse Region and Biguglia Pond (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Geobotany Studies
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Since the 1970s and particularly the works of Tuxen (1978) and Gehu
& Rivas-Martinez (1981), dynamico-catenal phytosociology has
facilitated the integration of vegetation dynamics by more
precisely describing the trajectories of vegetation series. A
national habitat mapping program (CarHAB), launched by France's
Ministry of Ecology, aims to map the vegetation and vegetation
series of metropolitan France at a scale of 1: 25,000 by 2025. In
this context, Corsica has been selected as a pilot region, due to
its unique characteristics regarding Mediterranean and alticole
vegetation. This book describes in detail the vegetation series and
geoseries (ecology, structure, dynamic trajectories, effects of
anthropogenic factors on vegetation dynamics, catenal positioning
in the landscape) of two Corsican sectors: Cap Corse and Biguglia
pond. These two study sites were selected using two methods: * For
Cap Corse, the typology and mapping are based on an inductive
approach, which seeks to understand the dynamics of vegetation by
drawing on the mature, substitutional, pioneering and anthropogenic
associations likely to exist within a tessellar envelope. These
various dynamic stages characterize "the vegetation series"
(sigmetum or synassociation), the fundamental unit of
symphytosociology (Gehu 2006; Biondi 2011). The aim of
symphytosociology is, therefore, to define the vegetation series;
in other words, it seeks to identify the repetitive combinations of
syntaxa under homogeneous ecological conditions. * For Biguglia
pond, the typology and mapping are based on a deductive approach,
which combines (under SIG) the ecological descriptor maps with the
vegetation mapping, in order to reveal the tesselas and the natural
potential vegetation that underlies them. Thanks to the improvement
of GIS techniques, this approach has been frequently used to
characterize plant landscapes from vegetation to vegetation
geoseries since the 2000s, with applications to the conservation
management of natural and semi-natural environments.
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