Dry grasslands on fluvial terraces of the middle reaches of river Piave in the North East Italy

Stefano Tasinazzo; Katia Zanatta; Cesare Lasen; Roberto Fiorentin

doi:10.2478/hacq-2021-0017

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Dry grasslands on fluvial terraces of the middle reaches of river Piave in the North East Italy

Hacquetia

Volume 21 (2022): Issue 1 (June 2022)

By: Stefano Tasinazzo , Katia Zanatta , Cesare Lasen and Roberto Fiorentin

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|Feb 2022

Abstract

Dry grassland vegetation on fluvial terraces along middle reaches of river Piave and river Brenta in Northeastern high Po plain were investigated through a phytosociological approach. Comparisons with ecologically analogous communities described from neighbouring territories lead to the description of a new association belonging to Centaureion dichroanthae alliance: Astragalo onobrychidis-Koelerietum pyramidatae. Residual fragments of Chrysopogon gryllus-dominated grassland on slighly deeper soils are refered to Chamaecytiso hirsuti-Chrysopogonetum grylli.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hacq-2021-0017 | Journal eISSN: 1854-9829 | Journal ISSN: 1581-4661

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Language: English

Page range: 15 - 40

Submitted on: Feb 12, 2020

Accepted on: Jun 19, 2021

Published on: Feb 12, 2022

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Keywords:

Astragalo onobrychidis-Koelerietum pyramidatae,

Chamaecytiso hirsuti-Chrysopogonetum grylli,

Po plain,

river Brenta,

Scorzoneretalia villosae,

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Ecology,

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