The alpine belt hosts the treeless vegetation above the high elevation climatic treeline. The
way alpine plants manage to thrive in a climate that prevents tree growth is through small …

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 …

Many mountain ranges have been strongly glaciated during the Quaternary ice ages, and
the locations of glacial refugia of mountain plants have been debated for a long time. A …

Phylogeography, born to bridge population genetics and phylogenetics in an explicit
geographic context, has provided a successful platform for unveiling species evolutionary …

Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) DNA fingerprinting is a firmly established
molecular marker technique, with broad applications in population genetics, shallow …

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 …

Bryophytes include about 20,000 species characterized by their poikilohydric condition, high
long-distance dispersal capacities, and cold tolerance. Despite these specific life-history …

Climatic fluctuations during Quaternary glaciations had a significant influence on the
distribution of taxa and on their intraspecific genetic structure. In this paper, we test …

Abstract Using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP), we explored the
intraspecific phylogeography of the alpine vascular plant Bupleurum stellatum (Apiaceae) …

With the recent rise of phylogeography, the biogeography of mountain species (species with
their current main distribution above timber line), especially their glacial history, has …