TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hand, Ralf
A1  - Grossmann, Anita
A1  - Lauterbach, Daniel
T1  - Endemics and their common congener plant species on an East Mediterranean island
BT  - a comparative functional trait approach
JF  - Plant ecology : an international journal
N2  - Understanding evolution and ecology of endemic plants is of great importance for conservation of those rare and endangered species. Pairwise comparisons of plant functional traits could be an adequate method to get insights in evolutionary and ecological processes. We examined whether morphological traits representing competitive ability and habitat specificity differ between endemics and common plants. Therefore, we performed pairwise comparison analyses of 9 plant functional traits in 36 congeneric pairs of endemics and their common congeners on the East Mediterranean island of Cyprus, i.e., the first such study conducted on a Mediterranean island. We found that endemic species prefer higher elevations and more extreme habitats. Endemics were smaller and they had smaller flowers than their common congeners. Common species had higher chromosome numbers than endemic ones. Endemic and common species showed no significant differences in canopy height, inflorescence height, leaf length and width, and flowering period. Our study showed that the situation on a large oceanic island does not differ from results in mainland research areas.
KW  - Biodiversity hotspot
KW  - Mediterranean Basin
KW  - Cyprus
KW  - Endemism
KW  - Rare common comparison
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-016-0673-y
SN  - 1385-0237
SN  - 1573-5052
VL  - 218
SP  - 139
EP  - 150
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Von Raab-Straube, Eckhard
A1  - Raus, Thomas
A1  - Bazos, Ioannis
A1  - Cornec, J. P.
A1  - De Belair, Gerard.
A1  - Dimitrakopoulos, P. G.
A1  - El Mokni, Ridha
A1  - Fateryga, Alexander V.
A1  - Fateryga, Valentina V.
A1  - Fridlender, Alain
A1  - Gil, Jaime
A1  - Grigorenko, V. N.
A1  - Hand, Ralf
A1  - Kovalchuk, A.
A1  - Mastrogianni, A.
A1  - Otto, R.
A1  - Rätzel, Stefan
A1  - Raus, Th.
A1  - Ristow, Michael
A1  - Salas Pascual, M.
A1  - Strid, Arne
A1  - Svirin, S. A.
A1  - Tsiripidis, Ioannis.
A1  - Uhlich, Holger
A1  - Vela, Errol
A1  - Verloove, Filip
A1  - Vidakis, K.
A1  - Yena, Andriy Vasylyovych
A1  - Yevseyenkov, P. E.
A1  - Zeddam, A.
T1  - Euro plus Med-Checklist Notulae, 11
JF  - Willdenowia
N2  - This is the eleventh of a series of miscellaneous contributions, by various authors, where hitherto unpublished data relevant to both the Med-Checklist and the Euro+Med (or Sisyphus) projects are presented. This instalment deals with the families Anacardiaceae, Asparagaceae (incl. Hyacinthaceae), Bignoniaceae, Cactaceae, Compositae, Cruciferae, Cyperaceae, Ericaceae, Gramineae, Labiatae, Leguminosae, Orobanchaceae, Polygonaceae, Rosaceae, Solanaceae and Staphyleaceae. It includes new country and area records and taxonomic and distributional considerations for taxa in Bidens, Campsis, Centaurea, Cyperus, Drymocallis, Engem, Hoffmannseggia, Hypopitys, Lavandula, Lithraea, Melilotus, Nicotiana, Olimarabidopsis, Opuntia, Orobanche, Phelipanche, Phragmites, Rumex, Salvia, Schinus, Staphylea, and a new combination in Drimia.
KW  - distribution
KW  - Euro plus Med PlantBase
KW  - Europe
KW  - Med-Checklist
KW  - Mediterranean
KW  - new combination
KW  - new record
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - vascular plants
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.49.49312
SN  - 0511-9618
VL  - 49
IS  - 3
SP  - 421
EP  - 445
PB  - Botanischer Garten & botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem
CY  - Berlin
ER  -