| Title: |
What's new about Important Plant Areas identification in northern Algeria? |
| Authors: |
Véla, Errol; Beghami, Yassine; Benhouhou, Salima; Miara, Mohamed Djamel; Rebbas, Khellaf; Yahi, Nassima |
| Contributors: |
Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP); Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD Occitanie )-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université de Montpellier (UM); Université Hadj Lakhdar Batna 1; École Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie Alger (ENSA); Université Ibn Khaldoun de Tiaret = University of Tiaret; University of M'sila / Université Mohamed Boudiaf - M'sila (Uni M'sila); Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediene = University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene Alger (USTHB); Nature Conservation Unit, Frederick University (Cyprus); IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature; CEPF, the Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund; Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment (Cyprus) |
| Source: |
5th Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week; https://hal.science/hal-05396794; 5th Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week, Nature Conservation Unit, Frederick University (Cyprus); IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature; CEPF, the Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund; Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment (Cyprus), Apr 2025, Limassol (Chypre), Cyprus |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique: ProdINRA |
| Subject Terms: |
Taxonomical shortfalls; in situ conservation; Field surveys; Decision support; Capacity building; Biodiversity mapping; [SDE]Environmental Sciences |
| Subject Geographic: |
Limassol (Chypre); Cyprus |
| Description: |
International audience ; In 2009, PlantLife, the IUCN Mediterranean Center for Cooperation and the WWF initiated the process for identifying Important Plant Areas (IPAs) in northern Algeria, including capacity building, data review, and help for publication. The first step was the edition of a first IUCN report on "Important plant areas of the south and east Mediterranean region" in 2011. At this stage, 21 IPAs had been identified in northern Algeria, and the process more detailed in an international publication by Yahi et al. in 2012, adding a 22nd at the same time.- Then, a national dynamic started and few new IPAs were added opportunely, until a new editing process supported by IUCN and the MAVA foundation that permitted the publication of a second report in 2018 on "Conserving wild plants in the south and east Mediterranean region". At this stage, northern Algeria totalized 39 Key Biodiversity Areas for plants (i.e. IPAs).- At national level, Algerian botanists pursued their field inventories and the identification process of new IPAs. At end of 2024 more than 40 IPAs are identified and several others are already on their way thanks to targeted field studies, PhD thesis and their corroborated scientific publications through diverse areas of the country.- From a methodological point of view, three generations of Algerian IPAs are parallelly developed and progressively incremented. The first generation was created based on historical bibliography, aiming to generate a first list of trigger species. The second generation was based on frugal field surveys aiming to rediscover and confirm the occurrence of trigger species. The third generation, now beginning, both aims to redefining the trigger species list based on a revised taxonomy and to redelimiting the IPA perimeters based on a concrete terrain mapping. These new ambitions face various difficulties which will have to be addressed and gaps which will have to be filled.- From a conservational point of view, NGOs and administrative services are gradually ... |
| Document Type: |
conference object |
| Language: |
English |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-05396794 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.44F4B883 |
| Database: |
BASE |