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Topo-climatic microrefugia explain the persistence of a rare endemic plant in the Alps during the last 21 millennia

, 2014
Ongoing rapid climate change is predicted to cause local extinction of plant species in mountain regions. However, some plant species could have persisted during Quaternary climate oscillations without shifting their range, despite the limited evidence ...
Zimmermann, Niklaus E, Theodoridis, Spyros, Patsiou, Theofania S., Theodoridis, S., Conti, Elena, Theofania S. Patsiou, Randin, Christophe F, Patsiou, Theofania, Elena Conti, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Randin, Christophe F., Christophe F. Randin, Spyros Theodoridis   +12 more
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Decolonizing Conservation and the Importance of Nature‐Based Approaches, Not Solutions: Learning From Indigenous and Local Conservation Systems in India to Achieve the Global Biodiversity Agenda

Conservation Letters, Volume 19, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) manage large areas of the world's remaining biodiversity and are essential to achieving global conservation goals. Yet their recognition and representation in global environmental governance remain uneven.
Garima Gupta, Isabel L. Jones, Achili Mihu, Charles T. Gray, Maya Pasgaard   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Frequent and strong cold‐air pooling drives temperate forest composition

Ecology and Evolution
Cold‐air pooling is an important topoclimatic process that creates temperature inversions with the coldest air at the lowest elevations. Incomplete understanding of sub‐canopy spatiotemporal cold‐air pooling dynamics and associated ecological impacts ...
Melissa A. Pastore, Aimée T. Classen, Anthony W. D'Amato, Marie E. English, Karin Rand, Jane R. Foster, E. Carol Adair   +6 more
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Forest Plants Decrease in Occupancy and Contract Their Edaphic Niches Towards Their Climatic Range Margins

Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 35, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim For improved predictions of the redistribution of species under climate change, there is a need to better understand how interactions among multiple abiotic drivers affect species distributions. We examined whether occupancy patterns of forest plant species change consistently along geographic and macroclimatic gradients. We further tested
Per‐Ola Hedwall, Kristoffer Hylander, Jörg Brunet, Ditte Marie Christiansen, Joan Díaz‐Calafat, Jaime Uria Diez, Martin Diekmann   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rapid Change and Thermophilization of Summit Plant Communities in the Central Eastern Alps (Italy)

Journal of Vegetation Science, Volume 37, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
Graphical abstract of vegetation change across the summits FAG (Faglmugl), SBG (Schafberg), DWO (Da Wöllane), and KAS (Kasererwartl) in the Texel Group, Italy, from 2003 to 2024, showing changes in total species richness on each summit and the relationship between species increase on KAS and mean growing‐season soil temperature across aspects. ABSTRACT
Friederike Westrich, Martin Mallaun, Marlene Volz, Lisa Angelini, Brigitta Erschbamer, Pau Carnicero   +5 more
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Urbanization Shapes Dietary Composition and Snout Morphology of Salamanders

Molecular Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 10, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Urbanization rapidly alters landscapes, generating habitat mosaics characterized by increased impervious surface, reduced soil moisture and diminished vegetation cover. These recurring urban environmental features are expected to reduce community diversity, favouring urban‐tolerant species, thereby promoting urban biotic homogenization ...
A. J. D. Marques, L. Alarcón‐Ríos, V. A. Mata, G. Velo‐Antón   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multilocus Phylogeography of the Treefrog Scinax eurydice (Anura, Hylidae) Reveals a Plio-Pleistocene Diversification in the Atlantic Forest.

PLoS ONE, 2016
We aim to evaluate the genetic structure of an Atlantic Forest amphibian species, Scinax eurydice, testing the congruence among patterns identified and proposed by the literature for Pleistocene refugia, microrefugia, and geographic barriers to gene flow
Lucas Menezes, Clarissa Canedo, Henrique Batalha-Filho, Adrian Antonio Garda, Marcelo Gehara, Marcelo Felgueiras Napoli   +5 more
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Horticultural Potential of the Flora from Karstic Dolines in the Northern Dinarides

Horticulturae
Karstic dolines are unique geomorphological and ecological features of limestone landscapes, characterised by strong microclimatic and edaphic gradients. These concave landforms form natural microrefugia that harbour a variety of plant species.
Andraž Čarni, Mateja Breg Valjavec, Aljaž Jakob, Blanka Ravnjak, Jože Bavcon   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A novel approach to quantify and locate potential microrefugia using topoclimate, climate stability, and isolation from the matrix

, 2012
Ecologists are increasingly recognizing the conservation significance of microrefugia, but it is inherently difficult to locate these small patches with unusual climates, and hence they are also referred to as cryptic refugia.
Ashcroft, MB, Gollan, JR, Ramp, D, Warton, DI   +3 more
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Moisture, thermal inertia, and the spatial distributions of near-surface soil and air temperatures: Understanding factors that promote microrefugia

, 2013
Moisture reduces exposure to temperature extremes, facilitating climate refugia. Variability of air temperatures related to humidity, but soil temperatures to VPD.
Ashcroft, MB, Gollan, JR
core   +2 more sources