Aim To disentangle the effects of environmental and geographical processes driving phylogenetic distances among clades of maritime pine ( P inus pinaster ). To assess the implications for conservation management of combining molecular information with species distribution models ( SDMs ; which predict species distribution based on known occurrence records and on environmental variables). Location W estern M editerranean B asin...

California valley oak ( Quercus lobata Née) is a seriously threatened endemic oak species in California and a keystone species for foothill oak ecosystems. Urban and agricultural development affects a significant fraction of the species’ range and predicted climate change is likely to dislocate many current populations. Here, we explore spatial patterns of multivariate genotypes and genetic diversity throughout the range of va...

We studied the phylogeography of ivy ( Hedera sp.), a liana widespread in Europe, throughout its natural range. The populations sampled belong to four closely related species differing by ploidy levels and morphological characters. Chloroplast (cp) markers were used and 13 haplotypes were detected, usually shared across species, contrary to ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) variants. We demonstrated the existence of...