Ethnopharmacological relevance The human skin constitutes a biological barrier against
external stress and wounds can reduce the role of its physiological structure. In medical …

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

Simple Summary Aiming to cope with the provisions of Aichi Biodiversity Targets, EU
Biodiversity Strategy and EU Green Deal, we conducted the first nationwide …

This book addresses an important problem in ecology: how are communities assembled
from species pools? This pressing question underlies a broad array of practical problems in …

The high diversification rates of plant lineages in the Mediterranean Basin hotspot have
been linked to a complex interaction of climatic stressors, geographic isolation and soil type …

Abstract Background and Aims Understanding the evolutionary and ecological forces
contributing to the emergence of biodiversity hotspots is of outstanding importance to …

Plant soil specialists contribute greatly to global diversity; however, the ecoevolutionary
forces responsible for generating this diversity are poorly understood. We integrate …

In a world facing rapid environmental changes, anticipating their impacts on biodiversity is of
utmost relevance. Remotely-sensed Ecosystem Functional Attributes (EFAs) are promising …

The Iberian flora has a high degree of originality (1328 endemic species, 24% of
endemism), comparable to other regions in the Mediterranean Basin. The richness of Iberian …

Abstract The Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands are home to 1823 endemic taxa of
vascular plants (nearly a quarter of total flora), half of which are narrowly distributed. Here …