Homage to Proserpina, or: why did the charophytes of the Pergusa Lake vanish?

• Main Author: Angelo Troia
• Other Authors: La Mantia, T, Badalamenti, E, Carapezza, A, Lo Cascio, P, Troia, A
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Edizioni Danaus 2020
• Subjects: biodiversity; invasive alien specie; limnology; macrophyte; saline lake; Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata; Settore BIO/02 - Botanica Sistematica; Saline Lake; Chara canescens
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/481752

An important bisexual population of the charophyte Chara canescens Loisel. (Characeae, Charales, Charophyceae) was reported in the XIX century for the Pergusa Lake (Sicily). A recent field survey to check its presence revealed that it has disappeared. After a bibliographic research to understand whe...