The specific vulnerability of plant biodiversity and vegetation on Mediterranean islands in the face of global change

Holocene environmental history of a small Mediterranean island in response to sea-level changes, climate and human impact

(2017) Yoann Poher et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Declining relict plants: Climate effect or seed dispersal disruption? A landscape-scale approach

(2016) Xavier Rotllan-Puig et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Multiproxy assessment of Holocene relative sea-level changes in the western Mediterranean: Sea-level variability and improvements in the definition of the isostatic signal

(2016) Matteo Vacchi et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Native microhabitats better predict tolerance to warming than latitudinal macro-climatic variables in arid-zone plants

(2016) Ellen M. Curtis et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Late Quaternary climate change shapes island biodiversity

(2016) Patrick Weigelt et al.   NATURE

Comparative Analysis of the Alien Vascular Flora of Sardinia and Corsica

(2016) Selena PUDDU et al.   Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca

Long-term bio-cultural heritage: exploring the intermediate disturbance hypothesis in agro-ecological landscapes (Mallorca, c. 1850–2012)

(2015) Joan Marull et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Land Change in Eastern Mediterranean Wood-Pasture Landscapes: The Case of Deciduous Oak Woodlands in Lesvos (Greece)

(2015) Harald Schaich et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Reviving extinct Mediterranean forest communities may improve ecosystem potential in a warmer future

(2015) Paul D Henne et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Direct Dating and Physico-Chemical Analyses Cast Doubts on the Coexistence of Humans and Dwarf Hippos in Cyprus

(2015) Antoine Zazzo et al.   PLoS One

Vegetation and fire history of coastal north-eastern Sardinia (Italy) under changing Holocene climates and land use

(2015) Giorgia Beffa et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Abrupt Climate-Independent Fire Regime Changes

(2014) Juli G. Pausas et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Sea-level rise in the Mediterranean Sea by 2050: Roles of terrestrial ice melt, steric effects and glacial isostatic adjustment

(2014) Gaia Galassi et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Narrow endemics to Mediterranean islands: Moderate genetic diversity but narrow climatic niche of the ancient, critically endangered Naufraga (Apiaceae)

(2014) Mario Fernández-Mazuecos et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Maritime route of colonization of Europe

(2014) P. Paschou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

(2014) C. Violle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate relicts and their associated communities as natural ecology and evolution laboratories

(2014) Scott A. Woolbright et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The rate of sea-level rise

(2014) Anny Cazenave et al.   Nature Climate Change

The ecological and evolutionary implications of microrefugia

(2013) Jonathan A. Mee et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Historical range of fire frequency is not the Achilles' heel of the Corsican black pine ecosystem

(2013) Bérangère Leys et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fine-scale spatial patterns of the Tertiary relict Zelkova abelicea (Ulmaceae) indicate possible processes contributing to its persistence to climate changes

(2013) Marta Bosque et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Determinants of non-native plant species richness and composition across small Mediterranean islands

(2012) F. Pretto et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Origin and Diet of the Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers on the Mediterranean Island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Sicily)

(2012) Marcello A. Mannino et al.   PLoS One

Cyprus as a degraded landscape or resilient environment in the wake of colonial intrusion

(2012) S. E. Harris   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

First wave of cultivators spread to Cyprus at least 10,600 y ago

(2012) J.-D. Vigne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vegetation dynamics during the early to mid-Holocene transition in NW Malta, human impact versus climatic forcing

(2012) Morteza Djamali et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Fire regime changes in the Western Mediterranean Basin: from fuel-limited to drought-driven fire regime

(2011) Juli G. Pausas et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Contrasting patterns of precipitation seasonality during the Holocene in the south- and north-central Mediterranean

(2011) Michel Magny et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

The future of terrestrial mammals in the Mediterranean basin under climate change

(2011) L. Maiorano et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century

(2011) John A. Church et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

The agricultural heritage of Lampedusa (Pelagie Archipelago, South Italy) and its key role for cultivar and wildlife conservation

(2011) Tommaso La Mantia et al.   Italian Journal of Agronomy

Seed dispersal and germination behavior of three threatened endemic labiates of Cyprus

(2010) COSTAS KADIS et al.   PLANT SPECIES BIOLOGY

Phylogeographical structure in the coastal speciesSenecio rodriguezii(Asteraceae), a narrowly distributed endemic Mediterranean plant

(2009) Arántzazu Molins et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Glacial refugia influence plant diversity patterns in the Mediterranean Basin

(2009) Frédéric Médail et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Consistent performance of invasive plant species within and among islands of the Mediterranean basin

(2008) Anna Traveset et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Socioeconomic Dimensions of Changes in the Agricultural Landscape of the Mediterranean Basin: A Case Study of the Abandonment of Cultivation Terraces on Nisyros Island, Greece

(2008) Theodora Petanidou et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Turnover of plants on small islets of the eastern Aegean Sea within two decades

(2008) Maria Panitsa et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The influence of sea currents, past disruption of gene flow and species biology on the phylogeographical structure of coastal flowering plants

(2008) Erik Westberg et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant species diversity of Adriatic islands: An introductory survey

(2008) Toni Nikolić et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact

(2008) M. A. Zeder   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic Analysis Informed by Geological History Supports Multiple, Sequential Invasions of the Mediterranean Basin by the Angiosperm Family Araceae

(2008) Guilhem Mansion et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Climate change projections for the Mediterranean region

(2007) Filippo Giorgi et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

On humans and wildlife in Mediterranean islands

(2007) Jacques Blondel   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY