Adaptations to the Stressful Combination of Serpentine Soils and Mediterranean Climate Drive Plant Functional Groups and Trait Richness [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 IntroductionPlant functional traits (FTs) are important for understanding plant ecological strategies (e.g., drought avoidance), especially in the nutrient-poor soils of serpentine ecosystems. In the Mediterranean areas, such ecosystems are characterized
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New Data on the Southern Iberian Serpentinophyte Flora (Andalusia, Spain) [PDF]
Mediterranean Botany, 2018 This work updates the existing list of obligate endemic serpentinophytes of the southern Iberian Peninsula. Serpentine ecosystems are developed on ultramafic outcrops which, although rare, have a worldwide distribution. The highly evolved and specialized
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Use of Machine Learning to Establish Limits in the Classification of Hyperaccumulator Plants Growing on Serpentine, Gypsum and Dolomite Soils [PDF]
Mediterranean Botany, 2021 The so-called hyperaccumulator plants are capable of storing hundred or thousand times bigger quantities of heavy metals than normal plants, which makes hyperaccumulators very useful in fields such as phytoremediation and phytomining. Among these plants
Vanessa Martos
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Differences of Metal Concentrations and Morpho-Anatomical Adaptations Between Obligate and Facultative Serpentinophytes From Western Serbia [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2007 In the present study, some important macro- and micronutrients (Ca, Mg, Fe, Ni) and the trace element Cr are analyzed in the obligate serpentinophytes Fumana bonapartei and Stachys recta var.
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An Updated Checklist of Serpentinophytes for Research and Conservation in Ultramafic Ecosystems on the Southern Iberian Peninsula (Spain) [PDF]
Ecological ResearchThis study aimed to establish an updated checklist of serpentinophytes (vascular plants linked to ultramafic rocks) in the southern Iberian Peninsula and understand their distribution across different ultramafic lithologies. The findings revealed 28 serpentinophytes across various rock types, with certain rocks showing higher occupancy, possibly due to
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Composition, ecology and conservation of the south-Iberian serpentine flora in the context of the Mediterranean basin [PDF]
Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid, 2013 Peridotite outcrops have special lithological (serpentine) and soil characteristics; they also support an unique flora and vegetation “that clearly differ from that of other soil types.
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Are Ophiolitic Substrates Drivers for Reticulate Evolution in <i>Armeria</i> (Plumbaginaceae)? [PDF]
Ecol EvolThe Armeria denticulata complex includes two species (A. denticulata and A. saviana): The former is a strict serpentinophyte endemic to Tuscany and western Liguria, the latter grows on limestone/jasper in a small area of southern Tuscany. We aimed at understanding whether substrate specificity and/or hybridization promoted speciation in the A ...
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The seed germination properties of two hyperaccumulator plant species with the potential for Ni agromining [PDF]
Botanica Serbica, 2023 The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of different nickel concentrations and light in combination with storage conditions and storage time on the seed germination ability of two serpentine-endemic nickel hyperaccumulating species ...
Dimitrios Kyrkas +6 more
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Utricularia ochroleuca and U. minor new‐found in nutrient‐poor waters of northern Greece
Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2023, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 Nutrient‐poor waters with small Utricularia species have been unknown in most of southern Europe and the Balkans. All the more notable are occurrences of Utricularia ochroleuca and Utricularia minor in north Greece. The records presented in this paper extend the known southeast European distribution boundaries of both species southward, and constitute ...
Erwin Bergmeier
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International Journal of Climatology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 2828-2839, 30 March 2021., 2021 Associated with a strengthening of circum‐global sub‐tropical high‐pressure belts, climate models unequivocally predict a decrease of Mediterranean precipitation, accompanied by an increase of extreme events in the upcoming decades. Long‐term desiccation will amplify evaporative demand challenging plant metabolism and foster an even greater need to ...
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