The aim of the present review was to reconsider basic information about various functional
aspects related to plant water content and provide evidence that the usefulness of …

OCBIL theory was introduced as a contribution towards understanding the evolution,
ecology and conservation of the biological and cultural diversity of old, climatically buffered …

An updated inventory of the native vascular flora of Italy, providing details on the occurrence
at regional level, is presented. The checklist includes 8195 taxa (6417 species and 1778 …

Gene tree discordance in large genomic data sets can be caused by evolutionary processes
such as incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization, as well as model violation, and errors …

The Mediterranean basin is rich in wild edible species which have been used for food and
medicinal purposes by humans throughout the centuries. Many of these species can be …

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 …

Sea-level rise is a significant threat to salt marshes. However, these habitats can respond by
increasing their relative elevation, or by migrating into adjacent areas. Here we provide the …

This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between salinity in the performance of marine
shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei and halophyte plant Sarcocornia ambigua in an aquaponic …

Phylogenetic asymmetry is common throughout the tree of life and results from contrasting
patterns of speciation and extinction in the paired descendant lineages of ancestral nodes …

Halophytes are species able to grow and complete their life cycle under NaCl
concentrations above 0.2 M. In a context of growing population and uncertain agricultural …