Small islands represent a common feature in the Mediterranean and host a significant
fraction of its biodiversity. However, the distribution of plant species richness across spatial …

Historical Floras are biodiversity-oriented textual sources, which refer to times when
scientific methods were far different compared to the present. They are also geographical …

The decline of freshwater flora due to alteration, reclamation and trophic perturbation of
lowland wetlands is among the most relevant issues in biological conservation. The …

Aim The study of islands biotas is fundamental to understand biodiversity patterns and
process, both on evolutionary and ecological time scales. This study explores the influence …

The rugged, uninhabited Montecristo Island (Italy), halfway between mainland Tuscany and
Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea, was made famous by the A. Dumas novel The Count of …

Aim Assessing the performances of different sampling approaches for documenting
community diversity may help to identify optimal sampling efforts and strategies, and to …

The importance of collection, storage and exchange of georeferenced vegetation plot-based
data has significantly grown in the recent decades, because of the new potentialities offered …

Greater diversity of habitats on islands is often correlated with higher species richness
(including endemic and threatened taxa), implying the need to understand species-habitat …

Biogeographic patterns in species distributions that are consistent across taxa, geographic
scales, and time periods have long fascinated ecologists. Many theories exist about the …