IDPlanT: the Italian database of plant translocation

Abstract

IDPlanT is the Italian Database of Plant Translocation, an initiative of the Nature Conservation Working Group of the Italian Botanical Society. IDPlanT currently includes 185 plant translocations. The establishment of a national database on plant translocation is a key step forward in data sharing and techniques improvement in this field of plant conservation.

Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2021.1985004 .

Keywords:

• Assisted colonisation
• data-sharing
• plant conservation
• plant reintroduction
• population reinforcement
• threatened plants

Acknowledgments

Authors thank Provincia di Siena, Riserva “Gole del Sagittario,” S. Regina (University of Bari “Aldo Moro”), G. Casazza (University of Genoa), G.I. Suffia, B. Ruffoni, M. Savona, C. Mascarello for their contribution to some of the translocations reported in IDPlanT. The CARE-MEDIFLORA project (http://www.CARE-MEDIFLORA.eu/) also wish to acknowledge for financially supporting several translocations in Sardinia and Sicily. We also mention the project “Effects of forest management on threatened macrolichens” developed by the Working Group for Ecology of the Italian Lichen Society for their support to the reintroduction of Lobaria pulmonaria. The Grant of Excellence Departments, MIUR-Italy (ARTICOLO 1, COMMI 314 – 337 LEGGE 232/2016) is gratefully acknowledged for support provided to TA.

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