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The distribution range of Primula marginata Curtis (Primulaceae) has never been fully characterized. In the present study, authors did a revision of the distribution range using herbaria material, database records and in situ populations' checkup. P. marginata was confirmed extending from Cottian to Maritime and Ligurian Alps, with few outlier...

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...