Central Apennines: Gran Sasso d’Italia

DEIMS-ID: https://deims.org/c0738b00-854c-418f-8d4f-69b03486e9fd
Last DEIMS-SDR update: 24.07.2023

Contact: Roberto Canullo
Operating organization: Carabinieri, Forest and Environmental Protection Dpt.
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Abstract:

The site consists of high elevation vegetation in central Mediterranean basin, along the Apennines mountain range: xerophitic primary grassland (Pediculari elegantis-Seslerietum tenuifoliae) and mesophitic primary grassland (Luzulo italiacae-Festucetum macratherae), with important resident and migratory bird communities. Six plots, each one 100 m2 large, grouped in two cluster-plots including each one three plots, representative of a larger area of 0,5 km2 ca., ranging from 2100 to 2300 m a.s.l. (alpic and Mediterranean high-mountain belts.

lanscape


site from far


site from far


permanent plots


permanent plots


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