A hundred pollen and plant macrofossil records from the Iberian Peninsula, Southern
France, the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the Aegean, and the southwestern Black Sea area …

With about 11,100 islands and islets of which ca. 250 are regularly inhabited by human, the
Mediterranean Sea represents one of the regions of the world with the most islands and …

Woodiness evolved in land plants approximately 400 Mya, and very soon after this
evolutionary invention, enormous terrestrial surfaces on Earth were covered by dense and …

Trees of montane cloud forests (MCFs) often have small and isolated populations and face
numerous threats. Due to limited conservation resources, management decisions are often …

Trees have a crucial importance in the functioning of ecosystems on Earth. They are among
the largest and longest-living taxa and provide habitat and shelter to numerous species …

The elm family (Ulmaceae) is a woody plant group with important scientific, societal, and
economic value. We aim to present the first biogeographic synthesis investigating the global …

Phoenix theophrasti is one of the few tree species tertiary relict endemic to the eastern
Mediterranean, and it is one of the two palm species native to continental Europe. It has …

The distribution of plant species around the Mediterranean basin is a product of the
influence of both geographical barriers and of climatic changes experienced during the …

With only two tiny populations, the climate relict Zelkova sicula (Sicily, Italy) is one of the
rarest trees in the world. It also represents the most marginal member of genus Zelkova that …

Aim To elucidate the phylogeographical patterns in three Cenozoic relict species: Zelkova
sicula, Z. abelicea and Z. carpinifolia (Ulmaceae). Location Sicily, Crete and Transcaucasia …