DIADEMA K.

This study analyses twoendemic species of the Southwest Italian and French Alps, Moehringia sp. in order to understand the glaciation's effect on speciationevents and or floristic and ecological patterns.

Within the Mediterranean basin thousands of islets show exceptionally high levels of plant diversity, playing a key role in this important global biodiversity hotspot. In this study, long‐term changes in the flora of Bergeggi, a small islet in the northern Tyrrhenian Sea, were empirically assessed. Species were assigned to two abundance classes...

The Maritime and Ligurian Alps, located at the interface between the Alps Mountains and the Mediterranean region, constitute one of the regional biodiversity hotspots of the Mediterranean basin. Biodiversity hotspots are areas where exceptional concentrations of endemic species undergo exceptional loss of habitat. In fact, with the population...

Climate change is a major threat to biodiversity, particularly in mountain ecosystems, which are often important centres of endemism. However, climate change effects are mainly studied on widely distributed taxa. Using species distribution model, we assessed the climate change impact on endemic flora of the richest centres of endemism in the...