MÉDAIL F.

In recent years we made an overview of endemic plants (sunsu lato) of the Maritime Alps (115 taxa representing 3.2 % of the flora). Ecological preferences and plant life strategies were detected, showing a particular ability of endemics to colonize habitats with low competition and disturbance characteristics. The comparison with other areas of...

Endemic species are not uniformly distributed across the world but some areas are richer than others. In general, it is widely recognized that past climate changes strongly affected endemic richness and distribution. Endemic species shifted little their distributional range over time, accumulating in the so-called areas of persistence because...

Climate change seriously threatens biodiversity, particularly in mountain ecosystems. However, studies on climate change effects rarely consider endemic species and their niche properties. Using species distribution models, we assessed the impact of climate change on the endemic flora of the richest centre of endemism in the Alps: the...

Endemic species are of pivotal importance in biogeography and conservation biology, because they are exclusively distributed in a given area. The regions where several endemic species occur are called centres of endemism and are expected to be characterised by stable and often singular climatic conditions that have enable divergence to...

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 results of the traits associated with the interaction plant-insect reveled that in Lilium pomponium the separation of sexual organs varied between individuals and populations. Neverttheless, the proportion of flower showing this separation was significantly higher in sothern groups. This suggests that populations occurring under different...

In this study we compared plant community and phenotypic variation in climatically marginal populations of Lilium pomponium L., a plantendemic to the Maritime and Ligurian Alps, spanning from the Mediterranean to Alpine habitats.

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...

The South-Western Alps host a great diversity of vascular plants, and especially endemic taxa. Thus, setting up a hierarchisation of patrimonial taxa of this biogeographical territory is needed in order to determine the main conservation concerns of flora. We adapted a hierarchisation method which leans on two criteria representing different...

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...