An appreciation of the scale and frequency of climatic oscillations in the past few million
years is modifying our views on how evolution proceeds. Such major events caused …

The climatic cycles with subsequent glacial and intergalcial periods have had a great impact
on the distribution and evolution of species. Using genetic analytical tools considerably …

Recently, the amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) technique has gained a lot of
popularity, and is now frequently applied to a wide variety of organisms. Technical …

The influence of dispersal limitation on species ranges remains controversial. Considering
the dramatic impacts of the last glaciation in Europe, species might not have tracked climate …

The disjunct distribution of forests in the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and adjacent Helan
Shan and Daqing Shan highlands provides an excellent model to examine vegetation shifts …

Aim Climate change may cause loss of genetic diversity. Here we explore how a
multidisciplinary approach can be used to infer effects of past climate change on species …

Plant survival in alpine landscapes is constantly challenged by the harsh and often
unpredictable environmental conditions. Steep environmental gradients and patchy …

Ranunculus glacialis ssp. glacialis is an arctic‐alpine plant growing in central and southern
European and Scandinavian mountain ranges and the European Arctic. In order to elucidate …

The Carpathians belong to the main elements of the European Alpine System and have an
important biogeographical location between the Balkan ranges in the South, the Alps in the …

Here, we investigated the origin and genetic diversity of four alpine plant species co‐
occurring in the Spanish Sierra Nevada and other high mountains in south‐western Europe …