Turkey (Türkiye) lies at the nexus of Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.
Turkey's location, mountains, and its encirclement by three seas have resulted in high …

Mediterranean-type ecosystems (MTEs) are located today in southwestern Australia, the
Cape Region of South Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, California, and central Chile. These …

Biodiversity is not homogenously distributed over the globe, and ecosystems differ strongly
in the number of species they provide. With this special issue we highlight the ecology and …

Aim The aims of this study were to assess the distribution of putative Mediterranean refugia
of plants, to compare the locations of refugia and those of regional hotspots of plant …

Aim This study aimed to identify the 'centres of endemism'of the Chinese spermatophyte
flora in order to indirectly detect the locations of past glacial refugia. The role of these areas …

What makes the structure and dynamics of coupled natural and human systems difficult to
interpret in the Mediterranean is the extreme diversity in space and time of both …

This work is a bibliographical review of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) that focuses on the
application of derivatives of this plant for cosmetic products, an application which has been …

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

The extent to which species can balance out the loss of suitable habitats due to climate
warming by shifting their ranges is an area of controversy. Here, we assess whether highly …

The geographical range sizes of individual species vary considerably in extent, although the
factors underlying this variation remain poorly understood, and could include a number of …