La carta della vegetazione del Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna (Appennino Tosco-Romagnolo): note illustrative.

Material, methods and ecological, physiognomic and floristic features of the vegetation types reported in the vegetation map of National Park “Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna” are here described. The quantitative data put in evidence the “wilderness” of this territory mostly covered by forests (84%), with few cultivated/artificial areas and rich in sites of great conservation interest. At higher altitudes, the vegetation in dominated by beech forests and Fagus sylvatica-Abies alba stands (34%), while at lower altitudes by mixed broad-leaved decidous woods (33%); shrublands, pastures and meadows are less frequent but very important for the total plant diversity. More than 400 phytosociological relevés have been carried out, thus allowing to describe the vegetation types and refer them to known literature syntaxa; a syntaxonomical scheme, for the forest vegetation in accordance with UBALDI (2003), is reported.