Protected areas play an important role in the conservation and protection of biodiversity of
particular territories, especially of ecosystems that provide resources for living organisms …

Resistance to drugs is reaching alarming levels and is placing human health at risk. With the
lack of new antimicrobials drugs, infectious diseases are becoming harder to treat. Hence …

This study evaluated the effects of ecology (plant community, topography and pedology), as
well as of climate, on the composition of essential oils (EOs) from two officinal wild plant …

The Mediterranean basin is rich in wild edible species which have been used for food and
medicinal purposes by humans throughout the centuries. Many of these species can be …

Helichrysum italicum (Roth) G. Don. is one of the most important cosmetic and medicinal
plants originating from the Mediterranean region of Europe. The aim of this study was to …

Crop wild relatives (CWR) have contributed to crop domestication for millennia, but
nowadays due also to human over exploitation of plants and other environmental resources …

H. italicum essential oil (EO) is one of the most popular ingredients utilized by the cosmetic
industry, and it is also used as natural antioxidant and as a value-added ingredient in food …

The abandonment of traditional anthropogenic activities is an important driver sha**
landscape patterns. Therefore, multi-scale pattern analysis over time is needed to identify …

Modern investigation through botanic, vegetation and soil analyses allowed us to establish,
for the first time, the maximum herd size of grazing Italian river buffalo that would allow the …

Main conclusion The metabolomic of the Italian endemic species Stachys italica was
investigated and potential positive metabolites for human's health were detected, quantified …