The bryophyte epiphytic biodiversity in some chestnut stands on mount Etna were investigated. This is a numerically poor xerophytic flora, with a clearly dominant moss component and with a rather high acrocarpous/pleurocarpous ratio. Based on the biodiversity index, the incidence of the degree of resistance of the various taxa to pollutants, the degree of reproductivity of the species, some considerations on the environmental state of health are expressed. Some different moss species were evaluated for the bioaccumulation: Scleropodium touretii and Hypnum resupinatum at Piano del Vescovo, Bryum capillare and Brachythecium velutinum at Fossa La Nave Hypnum cupressiforme and Homalothecium sericeum at Balilla.
CENCI Roberto;
PRIVITERA Maria;
PUGLISI Marta;
BEONE Gian Maria;
2010-10-22
Firenze University Press
JRC33568
0394-6169,
1592-1573 (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC33568,
10.1400/14442,
| Name | Country | City | Type |
|---|
This document is only visible at the Commission level.
You are not authorized to publish or distribute it outside the European Commission.
This is a public document. You can share this publication.
Datasets
| ID | Title | Public URL |
|---|
Dataset collections
| ID | Acronym | Title | Public URL |
|---|
Scripts / source codes
| Description | Public URL |
|---|
Additional supporting files
| File name | Description | File type |
|---|