Tropicalisation is a marine phenomenon arising from contemporary climate change, and is
characterised by the range expansion of tropical/subtropical species and the retraction of …

Plant and fungal specimens in herbaria are becoming primary resources for investigating
how plant phenology and geographic distributions shift with climate change, greatly …

The diversity and phylogenetic relationships of specimens in the brown algal genus
Cystoseira sensu lato from the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean were examined using …

Aim Global climate change has profound and diverse effects on biological diversity.
Identifying present‐day climate refugia is an increasingly recognized strategy for the …

Fucus virsoides is a glacial relict-species endemic to the Adriatic that was widespread from
northern Italy to southern Albania. In recent decades, however, it has suffered an alarming …

Mounting evidence shows that species interactions may mediate how individual species
respond to climate change. However, long-term anthropogenic effects on species …

Foundation species, such as trees, corals, grasses, oysters, and rockweeds, must be
common and abundant to effectively modify the physical environment and increase …

Similar to other coastal regions worldwide, forests created by brown macroalgae have
severely declined in recent decades across the Macaronesian oceanic archipelagos …

Brown macroalgae within the genus Cystoseira are some of the most relevant “ecosystem-
engineers” found throughout the Mediterranean and the adjacent Atlantic coasts. Cystoseira …

Societal Impact Statement Herbaria, as collections of preserved plants, contain large
amounts of data both in the labels and the specimens themselves, which can be applied in …