New national and regional Annex I Habitat records: from #60 to #82

New Italian data on the distribution of the Annex I Habitats are reported in this contribution. Specifically, 8 new occurrences in Na-tura 2000 sites are presented and 49 new cells are added in the EEA 10 km × 10 km reference grid. The new data refer to the Italian administrative regions of Campania, Calabria, Marche, Piedmont, Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany and Umbria. Relevés and figures are provided as Supplementary material respectively 1 and 2.


Introduction
This is the eighth contribution reporting records of new occurrences of Annex I Habitats in Europe.By comparing the results of the 4th Report ex-Art.17 of Annex I Habitat Monitoring in Europe (Eionet 2019), these cell occurrences are newly recorded for Italy.The related phytosociological relevés of each contribution are reported and archived in the Italian database "VegItaly" (Gigante et al. 2012;Landucci et al. 2012).
Phytosociological table: Suppl.Material 1, Table S1, nomenclature and taxa delimitation according to Portal to the Flora of Italy (2023).Notes: In the current state of knowledge, within the alliance Crithmo maritimi-Staticion Molinier 1934, 14 halophilous associations have been recognized for Italy especially for the presence of the different species of Limonium (Bartolo et al. 1989).Our relevés describe a chamaephytic plant community with Limonium remotispicumum (Lacaita) Pignatti discovered near the southern limit of species distribution (Suppl.Material 2, Figure S2).Indeed, it is a rare Italian endemic vascular plant known from Sorrento Peninsula (central Campania) to Cirella Island (northern Calabria) where it grows only on Tyrrhenian coastal cliffs.The studied vegetation is threatened by human activities such as trampling and waste dumping.Particularly, the absence of Crithmum maritimum L., a species generally abundant in the habitat 1240 along the rocky coasts of southern Italy, also seems to be related to negative human activities.

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The communities detected are referred to Arthrocnemion glauci order (Suppl.Material 2, Figure S5).These are often relegated to very small surfaces, along the banks of inland astatic basins with brackish to salt waters, or field ditches of partially reclaimed endorheic ponds.Rarely extending over 5000 m 2 , these communities are strongly threatened by long-term land reclamation processes for agricultural purposes, that are leading to the definitive disappearance of the original habitat.
Following the syntaxonomic arrangement in Gigante et al. (2013), this perennial amphibious vegetation has been referred to the habitat subtype 22.12 x 22.3 belonging to the Littorelletalia uniflorae order.
The recent surveys (Suppl.Material 1, Table S6) have been carried out during the activities of the Integrated project LIFE19 IPE/IT/000015 "LIFE IMAGINE Umbria -Integrated MAnagement and Grant Investments for the N2000 NEtwork in Umbria" (https://www.lifeimagine.eu/): one of the project actions aimed at conserving this habitat type will involve the manual removal of leaf litter deriving from long-lived oak leaves that accumulates in the ponds and leads to their progressive burial.-Bl. 1948(Mucina et al. 2016).Geographic information: Italy, Piedmont, Valprato Soana, Loc.Azaria, 1550 m a.s.l., Coordinates: 45.55668 N, 7.512335 E (Suppl.Material 1, Table S7, Rels. 1 to 5); Italy, Piedmont, Ronco Canavese, Loc.Lasinetto, 1110 m a.s.l., Coordinates: 45.502689 N, 7.503595 E (Suppl.Material 1, Table S7, Rel. 6).Cells ID in the EEA reference grid: 10kmE412N249 (Suppl.Material 2, Figure S9).Natura 2000 Site Code: SAC/SPA IT1201000 'Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso' Phytosociological table: Suppl.Material 1, Table S7, nomenclature and taxa delimitation according to Portal to the Flora of Italy (2023).Notes: Gravel banks of the Epilobion fleischeri are quite frequent in the Alpine Biogeographical Region and in the Western Alps, although the naturalness of Alpine rivers has been generally compromised over the years.In the SAC/SPA IT1201000 'Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso' the habitat code 3220 was reported for all cells except for the one reported here.The Orco and Forzo mountain streams actually have limited areas colonised by the habitat, how-ever these have a significant value because they are set on streams that are not currently artificially regulated by dams or weirs.
#67.Annex I Habitat: 3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation (Fiaschi T, Cannucci S, Fanfarillo E, Angiolini C) Notes: In the detection sites, this habitat is mainly represented by short grasslands dominated by Paspalum distichum, one of the few alien species colonizing wetlands in the area, which are in general well-preserved (Fanfarillo et al. 2023;Fiaschi et al. 2023).
#70.Annex I Habitat: 4090 Endemic oro-Mediterranean heaths with gorse (Bazan G., Guarino R., Ilardi V.)  (Marino et al. 2012).While the first of these has a range extended to all the northern mountain range of Sicily (Madonie, Nebrodi and Peloritani), the other two were hitherto known exclusively from the Madonie Massif.The finding of G. cupanii on the heights of San Mauro Castelverde makes it possible to extend the range of this species to the flyschoid substrata of the extreme western outposts of Nebrodi Mountains.
The mountain garrigue here described colonizes summit ridges and eroded slopes, in part resulting from deforestation carried out until a few decades ago.The garrigue is dominated by Genista cupanii and a few other elements of the class Cisto-Lavanduletea, along with many herbaceous species typical of mountain rangelands of N-Sicily (Cirsietalia vallis-demonis Brullo and Grillo 1978; Poetalia bulbosae Rivas Goday and Rivas-Mart. in Rivas Goday and Ladero 1970).
From the bioclimatic point of view, the surveyed vegetation falls in a transitional belt between the upper Mesomediterranean unit -in the surveyed area characterized by woods classified into the Festuco heterophyllae-Quercetum congestae Brullo and Marcenò 1985 -and the Supramediterranean unit, characterized by the Arrhenathero nebrodensi-Quercetum cerridis Brullo, Minissale andSpampinato 1996 (Bazan et al. 2015).Our study area represents the western limit of the distribution range of Quercus cerris in Sicily.
The presence of Helleborus bocconei subsp.intermedius, endemic to north-western Sicily and only sporadically recoded from the Nebrodi Mts.(Giardina et al. 2007) suggests a certain autonomy of the studied garrigue with respect to the Genista cupanii associations described for the Madonie Mts., although a more in-depth study would be necessary to better circumstantiate its syntaxonomic framework.

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The presence of alien and ruderal species in the detected habitat shows signs of degradation due to human pressures such as intensive agriculture (Stinca et al. 2021;Fanfarillo et al. 2023).
#82.Annex I Habitat: 9330 Quercus suber forests (Morabito A, Musarella CM, Spampinato G) EUNIS Classification system: T211 (formerly G2.11) -Quercus suber forest (Chytrý et al. 2020) S18, Rel.1), 10kmE487N175 (Suppl.Material 1, Table S18, Rel. 2), 10kmE489N175 (Suppl.Material 1, Table S18, Rel. 3) (Suppl.Material 2, Figure S25).Natura 2000 Site Code: currently not included in any Natura 2000 Site.Phytosociological table: Suppl.Material 1, Table S18, nomenclature and taxa delimitation according to Portal to the Flora of Italy (2023).Notes: Italian cork oaks for their acidophilic species assemblage have been referred by Brullo and Marceno (1984) to the Erico-Quercion ilicis.This alliance groups forest associations dominated by evergreen sclerophyllous species with a high presence of calcifugous species, which develop on siliceous or strongly leached soils, in subhumid to humid Mediterranean macrobioclimates (Biondi and Blasi 2015).At the association level, the communities detected (Suppl.Material 1, Table S18, Rels 1-3) are to be ascribed to the Helleboro-Quercetum suberis Signorello 1984, community spread in Calabria region (Signorello 1984;Brullo et al. 2001) and in particular to the variant of Myrtus communis (Mercurio and Spampinato 2003) that group to the thermo-xerophilous cork oaks, located in the thermo-Mediterranean settled in more xeric environmental conditionsthan those typical of the association which instead is characterized by an assemblage of mesophilous species and bioclimatic conditions of meso-Mediterranean type.These new records expand the distribution area of the habitat 9330 in the Calabria Region.

Table 1 .
Synthetic overview of the newly reported data.

ID in the EEA reference grid: 10kmE485N178
(Suppl.Material 1, Table