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To understand the relations between environment and phenotypic plasticity is important to forecast any possible adaptation of plants to climate change. We tested for any difference between central and marginal (Mediterranean and Alpine). Study was performed on 20 populations chosen on the basis of their distance from niche optimum.In...

The Maritime Alps are one of the ten biodiversity hotspots in the Mediterranean and a relevant biogeographical areas in Europe because of the concentration of endemism and their possible role as long-persistence area of species. One of the most famous species of the Maritime Alps is Saxifraga florulenta Moretti, a monocarpic paleoendemic...

Future climate change may lead to a substantial loss of biodiversity. Endemic plants are exposed at an increased extinction risk because they are likely more dispersal-limited, less genetically variable, thus less able to rapidly adapt to climate change than species with broader distribution. In plants, global warming can lead to changes in...

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.

To asses the impact of seabirds on the vegetation of a Mediterranean islet, we compared the plant community of Bergeggi islet, harbouring the largest colony of yellow-legged gulls od Liguria (NW Italy)