Diversity, distribution and molecular species delimitation in frogs and toads from the Eastern Palaearctic

C Dufresnes, SN Litvinchuk - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Biodiversity analyses can greatly benefit from coherent species delimitation schemes and up-
to-date distribution data. In this article, we have made the daring attempt to delimit and map …

Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance

S Manes, MJ Costello, H Beckett, A Debnath… - Biological …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Climate change affects life at global scales and across systems but is of special concern in
areas that are disproportionately rich in biological diversity and uniqueness. Using a meta …

Tissue succulence in plants: Carrying water for climate change

AV Pérez-López, SD Lim, JC Cushman - Journal of Plant Physiology, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Tissue succulence in plants involves the storage of water in one or more organs or tissues to
assist in maintaining water potentials on daily or seasonal time scales. This drought …

[HTML][HTML] Ethiopian vegetation types, climate and topography

M Asefa, M Cao, Y He, E Mekonnen, X Song, J Yang - Plant Diversity, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Ethiopia is land of geographical contrasts with elevations that range from 125 m below sea
level in the Danakil Depression to 4533 m above sea level in the Semien Mountains, a world …

Plant endemism centres and biodiversity hotspots in Greece

K Kougioumoutzis, IP Kokkoris, M Panitsa, A Kallimanis… - Biology, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Aiming to cope with the provisions of Aichi Biodiversity Targets, EU
Biodiversity Strategy and EU Green Deal, we conducted the first nationwide …

Endemic diversity and distribution of the Iranian vascular flora across phytogeographical regions, biodiversity hotspots and areas of endemism

J Noroozi, A Talebi, M Doostmohammadi… - Scientific reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Endemism is one of the most important concepts in biogeography and is of high relevance
for conservation biology. Nevertheless, our understanding of patterns of endemism is still …

Environmental variables drive plant species composition and distribution in the moist temperate forests of Northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan

IU Rahman, RE Hart, F Ijaz, A Afzal, Z Iqbal, ES Calixto… - PloS one, 2022‏ - journals.plos.org
By assessing plant species composition and distribution in biodiversity hotspots influenced
by environmental gradients, we greatly advance our understanding of the local plant …

Early evidence of shifts in alpine summit vegetation: a case study from Kashmir Himalaya

M Hamid, AA Khuroo, AH Malik, R Ahmad… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Under the contemporary climate change, the Himalaya is reported to be warming at a much
higher rate than the global average. However, little is known about the alpine vegetation …

[PDF][PDF] Grasslands of the Palaearctic biogeographic realm: introduction and synthesis

J Dengler, I Biurrun, S Boch… - Encyclopedia of the …, 2020‏ - grassland-restoration.eu
Grasslands are spontaneously occurring herbaceous vegetation types that are mostly
dominated by grasses or other graminoids and have usually> 10% herb-layer cover, while …