Spatial patterns of genus-level phylogenetic endemism in the tree flora of Mediterranean Europe

Marwan Cheikh Albassatneh (1, 2, 3) , Marcial Escudero (4) , Anne-Christine Monnet (1, 2) , Juan Arroyo (4) , | Gianni Baccheta (5) , Francesca Bagnoli (6) , Panayotis Dimopoulos (7) , | Arndt Hampe (8) , Agathe Leriche (2) , Frédéric Médail (2) , Toni Nikolic (9) , | Loïc Ponger (1) , Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin (6) , Bruno Fady (10)

1 ISYEB - Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité
2 IMBE - Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
3 iEES Paris - Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris
4 Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Seville
5 UniCa - Università degli Studi di Cagliari = University of Cagliari
6 IBBR - Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse [Palermo]
7 University of Patras
8 BioGeCo - Biodiversité, Gènes & Communautés
9 Division of Botany [Zagreb]
10 URFM - Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes

The Mediterranean Basin is a major hotspot of plant biodiversity, including forest trees. Over the past centuries, Mediterranean forests have been fragmented and over‐exploited, to which the threats of climate change are now added. Our aim is to better understand patterns and processes of tree biodiversity in the Mediterranean and to provide indicators complementing the traditional approaches to biodiversity conservation based on species counts and occurrences, using georeferenced phylogenetic diversity and endemism analyses in a spatial ecological context.

Keywords: conservation; Euro-Mediterranean vascular flora; Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling; phylogenetic diversity; phylogenetic endemism; relative environmental turnover

Domains: Environmental Sciences

Marwan Cheikh Albassatneh, Marcial Escudero, Anne-Christine Monnet, Juan Arroyo, | Gianni Baccheta, et al.. Spatial patterns of genus-level phylogenetic endemism in the tree flora of Mediterranean Europe. Diversity and Distributions, 2021, 27 (5), pp.913-928. ⟨10.1111/ddi.13241⟩. ⟨hal-03135204⟩