Modern Concepts for the Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources in the Mediterranean Natural Protected Areas: The Case Study of the Alta Murgia Park (Italy) |
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Authors: | P Perrino G Laghetti M Terzi |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Plant Genetics-CNR, Via Giovanni Amendola,165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy |
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Abstract: | The high specific richness of the vascular flora of the National Park of ‘Alta Murgia’ (Apulia, Italy) has been originated
by a long co-evolutionary process of biophysical and anthropic systems. Natural disturbances on the one hand and the anthropic
on the other, as years go by, in their mutual interaction, have created suitable conditions for the coexistence of a high
number of taxa. Following an ecological and floristic survey of grasslands of Alta Murgia, many species of great phyto-geographical value
or, however, threatened by genetic erosion and/or extinction together with other plants traditionally employed by man as officinal
and for food and non-food purposes, were recorded. The ecological conditions that allow the persistence of these plant communities
must be searched in the delicate equilibrium established among the natural dynamics and the set of disturbance regime, for
great part due to the traditional land use. The actual social and economic transformations of the area, without safeguarding
programmes to be carried out according to sustainability criteria, can produce a serious biodiversity decline. Starting from
the ‘sustainable use’ definition of the CBD, the present paper deals with some focal points to realize the sustainable management
of the biodiversity of the Park of Alta Murgia. |
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Keywords: | Biodiversity Conservation Mediterranean Park Sustainability |
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