PTCP 2013 — Conoscitivo Quadro QC02 Ecological Networks — Metropolitan City of Florence

Territorial Plan of Provincial Coordination approved with Delib. C.P. of 10/01/2013 (BURT No 11 of 13/03/2013). The Charter summarises the main contents of the research on the identification of ecological link areas in the territory of the Metropolitan City of Florence commissioned by the Province of Florence. The following functional units are indicated: — nodes, understood as the ecosystem units of high natural value (core areas) of ecological networks of forests, open areas, shrubs, wetlands; — the ford stones and areas of high natural value understood as discontinuous ecological linkages of the nets listed above; — corridors understood as ecological connecting areas; — buffer zones, understood as areas adjacent to the nodes of the network of forests, open areas, shrubs and wetlands. As regards the ecological network of watercourses, the following are distinct: — nodes, understood as stretches of watercourses of proven high natural value; — corridors, understood as the remaining sections of watercourses, the connection value of which is potential or — at the moment — interrupted by artificial causes.