Abstract The Balkan Peninsula is widely acknowledged as one of the centers of European
biodiversity and a major glacial refugium for plant species. Its extensive geographic …

Critical species inventories provide primary biodiversity data crucial for biogeographical,
ecological, and conservation studies. After six years, a second update to the inventory of the …

In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are
presented. It includes new records, confirmations and status changes to the Italian …

Available knowledge on the European white oaks (Quercus, sect. Quercus) plastome still
exhibits large gaps, mostly in respect of detailed phylogeny and information from southern …

One of the major goals of contemporary evolutionary biology is to elucidate the relative roles
of allopatric and ecological differentiation and polyploidy in speciation. In this study, we …

 Abstract The herbarium digitization process is an essential first step in transforming the vast
amount of data associated with a physical specimen into flexible digital data formats. In this …

The Balkan Peninsula played an important role in the evolution of many Mediterranean
plants and served as a major source for post-Pleistocene colonisation of central and …

Abstract The Balkan Peninsula is a hotspot of European biodiversity, harbouring many
endemic species. Cerastium decalvans is a heteroploid species endemic to mountainous …

Campanula hawkinsiana and C. ramosissima are among the poorly investigated
Campanula species distributed in the Balkan Peninsula. According to recent phylogenetic …

The Mediterranean region is one of the 25 biodiversity hotspots, with several species
distributed on both sides of the Adriatic Sea, ie on the Apennine and the Balkan Peninsulas …