Information system on the flora of the Rosandra Valley (Trieste Karst, NE Italy)
Autors: Pier Luigi Nimis, Stefano Martellos, Andrea Moro, Rodolfo Riccamboni
This tool allows even non-experts in Botany to 'explore' the rich flora of the Natural Reserve of the Rosandra Valley near Trieste (NE Italy), one of the botanically most interesting sites of the Trieste Karst (almost 1000 infrageneric taxa).
The system consists of two query interfaces:
1) The first is a multi-entry interface where you can specify a set of easily observable characters such as habitus, leaves, flowers and / or fruits of a plant which you want to identify. The result will be a photo gallery of all the plants that possess the specified characters. Clicking on the name of each species, you’ll obtain a taxon page with more images, a distribution map in Italy, and a list of Italian common names (the version in Italian also has notes to each species).
2) The second interface, which is activated only after using the first one, is a richly illustrated dichotomous key for the species that have been selected using the multi-entry interface.
Experts can also use the first interface to create keys to all species of a given genus or a given family present in the flora of study area.
Currently, the interface is in the testing phase and is published online to gather comments and corrections from users. We would be grateful for any feedback for improving it (please write to Prof. Pier Luigi Nimis - nimis@units.it).
Partner/Partnerji: Università di Trieste, Dip. di Scienze della Vita (Lead Partner), Prirodoslovni Muzej Slovenije, Ljubljana, Univerza na Primorskem -Università del Litorale Koper/Capodistria, Università di Padova, Dip. di Biologia, Zavod Republike Slovenije za šolstvo Ljubljana, Comune di San Dorligo della Valle - Občina Dolina, Consorzio del Parco Regionale del Delta del Po Emilia Romagna, Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente del Friuli Venezia Giulia (ARPA - FVG), Gruppo di Azione Locale Venezia Orientale (GAL Venezia Orientale - VEGAL), Triglavski Narodni Park, Univerza v Novi Gorici. Progetto Strumenti interattivi per l’identificazione della biodiversità: un progetto educativo in un’area transfrontaliera (SiiT): finanziato nell’ambito del Programma per la Cooperazione Transfrontaliera Italia-Slovenia 2007-2013, dal Fondo europeo di sviluppo regionale e dai fondi nazionali. Projekt Interaktivna določevalna orodja za šole (SIIT): spoznavanje biotske pestrosti na čezmejnem območju sofinancirana v okviru Programa čezmejnega sodelovanja Slovenija-Italija 2007-2013 iz sredstev Evropskega sklada za regionalni razvoj in nacionalnih sredstev. |  |
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