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Conservation Biology of Threatened Mediterranean Chasmophytes: The Case of Asperula Naufraga Endemic to Zakynthos Island (Ionian Islands, Greece) [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Asperula naufraga is a rare and threatened obligate chasmophyte, endemic to Zakynthos island (Ionian islands, Greece). In this study, we provide a combined approach (including monitoring of demographic and reproductive parameters and study of genetic ...
Panayiotis Trigas   +1 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Diversity of chasmophytes in the vascular flora of Greece: floristic analysis and phytogeographical patterns [PDF]

open access: yesBotanica Serbica, 2017
Cliffs are among the environments with the most adverse conditions for living organisms because of the limited availability of soil, moisture, and nutrients, and owing to the harsh conditions of exposure.
Panitsa Maria, Kontopanou Anna
doaj   +3 more sources

Classification Importance of Seed Morphology and Insights on Large-Scale Climate-Driven Strophiole Size Changes in the Iberian Endemic Chasmophytic Genus Petrocoptis (Caryophyllaceae) [PDF]

open access: yesPlants
Recruitment poses significant challenges for narrow endemic plant species inhabiting extreme environments like vertical cliffs. Investigating seed traits in these plants is crucial for understanding the adaptive properties of chasmophytes.
Jorge Calvo-Yuste   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Habitat Islands on the Aegean Islands (Greece): Elevational Gradient of Chasmophytic Diversity, Endemism, Phytogeographical Patterns and need for Monitoring and Conservation

open access: yesDiversity, 2020
The Aegean archipelago, characterized as a natural laboratory for research concerning plant species diversity and phytogeography has a complex geological and paleogeographical history that varies among its phytogeographical areas. A different combination
Anna Kontopanou, Maria Panitsa
doaj   +2 more sources

Phytodiversity of chasmophytic habitats at Olichuchattam Waterfalls, Kerala, India

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2020
The present study was conducted to analyse the Phytodiversity of Chasmophytic habitats at Olichuchattam waterfalls, Kerala, India. The studies on the plants in such special type of habitats are very less.
Arun Christy, Binu Thomas
doaj   +2 more sources

Petrophilous spurges of the Nothern Caucasus and their genesis

open access: yesЮг России: экология, развитие, 2015
The article says that the petrophilous spurges of the Northern Caucasus originated from nonpetricolous ancestors of different related groups. The adaptiogenesis of these groups evolved analogously: nonpetrophilous euphorbias – relative petrophytes ...
A. A. Terekbayev, A. A. Tejmurov
doaj   +2 more sources

Chasmophytic forests of Ostrya carpinifolia in west-Serbian canyons

open access: yesBiologica Nyssana, 2017
Variability patterns and biodiversity components of chasmophytic forests of Ostrya carpinifolia in westSerbian ravine habitats were analyzed in this article.
Karadžić, B.
doaj   +2 more sources

Monitoring of Plant Species and Communities on Coastal Cliffs: Is the Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Suitable?

open access: yesDiversity, 2020
Cliffs are reservoirs of biodiversity; therefore, many plant species and communities of inland and coastal cliffs are protected by Council Directive 92/43/EEC (European Economic Community), and their monitoring is mandatory in European Union countries ...
Annalisa Santangelo   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Diversity, Distribution, and Classification of Chasmophytic Vegetation in the Central Asian Biodiversity Hotspot: Alpine Belt of the Eastern Pamir-Alai and Western Tian Shan Mountains

open access: yesActa Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2022
This paper presents the results of research conducted on chasmophytic vegetation occurring within the alpine belt (approx. 1,850–4,000 m a.s.l.) in the eastern part of Middle Asia.
Arkadiusz Nowak   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Distribution, ecology and conservation status of Dionysia involucrata Zaprjag., an endangered endemic of Hissar Mts (Tajikistan, Middle Asia)

open access: yesActa Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2014
Dionysia involucrata Zaprjag. (Primulaceae) is known as critically endangered endemic species of Hissar Mountains in Tajikistan. It is reported from few localities mainly in Varzob River valley and its tributaries.
Arkadiusz S. Nowak   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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