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Prof. Dr. Julio Peñas de Giles

Department of Botany, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Interests: biodiversity conservation; biogeography of plants; plant diversity; Mediterranean, arid and alpine biomes

Dr. Javier Bobo-Pinilla

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Department of Botany, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
Interests: phylogenetic analysis; ecology and evolution; genetic diversity; conservation biology

Special Issue Information

Five Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems (MTEs) cover different areas around the world; these are considered to be important biodiversity hotspots, all of which include interesting diversity and phylogeographical patterns and processes in plants. Current conservation strategies are not effective enough to prevent a continuous decline in biodiversity in MTEs. It is a challenge to address the knowledge of both natural history and the threats to flora as well as the implementation of new conservation practices.

This Special Issue provides an opportunity to improve the knowledge on phylogeography and conservation of rare, threatened, and endemic plant species in all the ecosystems. The aim is to provide a platform for further discussions between scientists and practitioners, including the integration of different plant conservation issues with management and biological conservation concepts. Papers on new techniques to establish proposals on conservation, restoration and management, conservation status and main threats, genetic conservation, niche modelling, etc., that will provide a clear connection between plant phylogeography and conservation are welcomed from any botany discipline.

Prof. Dr. Julio Peñas de Giles
Dr. Javier Bobo-Pinilla
Guest Editors

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Keywords

conservation in situ/ex situ
endangered flora
genetic conservation
global change
new conservation practices
phylogenetic diversity

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Distribution, Biogeography and Characteristics of the Threatened and Data-Deficient Flora in the Southwest Australian Floristic Region

by Carl R. Gosper, Julia M. Percy-Bower, Margaret Byrne, Tanya M. Llorens and Colin J. Yates

Diversity 2022, 14(6), 493; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/d14060493 - 17 Jun 2022

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The Southwest Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR) supports an exceptional number of threatened and data-deficient flora. In this study, we: (i) collated statistics on the number, listing criteria and tenure of occurrence of threatened and data-deficient flora; (ii) conducted spatial and biogeographic analyses to address questions concerning patterns of diversity of threatened and data-deficient flora relative to the whole flora and evolutionary and threat drivers; and (iii) examined whether threatened and data-deficient flora richness is evenly distributed across plant lineages. We found that although threatened and data-deficient flora occurred across the breadth of the SWAFR, high richness was concentrated in a limited number of locations, which were not always strongly aligned with areas of higher land transformation. Data-deficient flora demonstrated different spatial patterns of occurrence to threatened flora. Approximately 70% of the populations of threatened and data-deficient flora occurred outside of lands managed primarily for conservation. Both evolutionary history and contemporary threats contribute to the current status and distribution of diversity of the threatened and data-deficient flora, with evolutionary history playing a significant role in predisposing a portion of the flora to having population traits that result in those flora meeting IUCN Red List criteria, along with ecological traits that predispose some to specific novel threats. An understanding of the distribution of species and threats, flora traits, and how these traits mediate susceptibility to threats, offers one potential way forward for an initial assessment of which of the 1819 data-deficient flora may be most at risk of extinction. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conservation and Phylogeography of Threatened and Endemic Plants)

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Conservation and Phylogeography of Plants: From the Mediterranean to the Rest of the World

by Javier Bobo-Pinilla, Esteban Salmerón-Sánchez, Antonio J. Mendoza-Fernández, Juan F. Mota and Julio Peñas

Diversity 2022, 14(2), 78; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/d14020078 - 24 Jan 2022

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During the last decades, phylogeography has transformed the ways to analyze and understand plant diversity and biogeography. The repeated and increasingly detailed articles made from DNA data with phylogeographical procedures and algorithms have revolutionized biodiversity research, particularly on biodiversity conservation. This paper presents a systematic literature review of the different ways in which phylogeography has been applied to plants in Mediterranean-type ecosystems (MTEs), especially to rare, threatened, and endemic plants. Studies ranged from basic research to how phylogeography is actually contributing to management conservation of Mediterranean plants. Finally, new and future phylogeography perspectives with integrative scientific arguments and conceptual bases applied to plant conservation biology are discussed. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conservation and Phylogeography of Threatened and Endemic Plants)

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