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Distribution Patterns and Habitat Preferences of Five Globally Threatened and Endemic Montane Orthoptera (Parnassiana and Oropodisma)
Greece is a European hotspot for Orthoptera (378 species), yet it has been scarcely explored. We investigated the distribution and …
Apostolis Stefanidis, Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Konstantina Zografou, Georgios Fotiadis, Luc Willemse, Olga Tzortzakaki, Vassiliki Kati
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Impacts of climate and land-use dynamics on endemic plant distributions in a Mediterranean island hotspot: The case of Evvia (Aegean, Greece)
Anthropogenic climate and land-use change pose major threats to island floras worldwide, yet few studies integrate these drivers in a …
Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Ioannis Kokkoris, Panayiotis Trigas, Arne Strid, Panayotis Dimopoulos
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Mitigating the extinction risk of globally threatened and endemic mountainous Orthoptera species: Parnassiana parnassica and Oropodisma parnassica
Orthoptera species are vulnerable to extinction on a global scale. Greece hosts 35% (380 species) of the European Orthoptera fauna with …
Apostolis Stefanidis, Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Konstantina Zografou, Georgios Fotiadis, Olga Tzortzakaki, Luc Willemse, Vassiliki Kati
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Assessing the Vulnerability of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants to Climate and Land-Use Changes in a Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) play a critical role in providing ecosystem services through their provision of herbal remedies, …
Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Maria Tsakiri, Ioannis P Kokkoris, Panayiotis Trigas, Gregoris Iatrou, Fotini N Lamari, Dimitris Tzanoudakis, Eleni Koumoutsou, Panayotis Dimopoulos, Arne Strid, Maria Panitsa
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Current Greek Protected Areas Fail to Fully Capture Shifting Endemism Hotspots Under Future Climate and Land-Use Change
In the Anthropocene, conservation planning must adapt to rapid environmental changes driving the global biodiversity crisis. The …
Mariana Braz Pires, Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Sietze Norder, Panayotis Dimopoulos, Arne Strid, Maria Panitsa
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MEDIS—A comprehensive spatial database on Mediterranean islands for biogeographical and evolutionary research
The intrinsic characteristics of islands make them a unique study system for the investigation of ecological and evolutionary dynamics. …
Francesco Santi, Riccardo Testolin, Piero Zannini, Michele Di Musciano, Virginia Micci, Lorenzo Ricci, Riccardo Guarino, Gianluigi Bacchetta, José María Fernández‐Palacios, Mauro Fois, Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Kadir Boğaç Kunt, Federico Lucchi, Frédéric Médail, Toni Nikolić, Rüdiger Otto, Salvatore Pasta, Maria Panitsa, Konstantinos Proios, Spyros Sfenthourakis, Stylianos M Simaiakis, Claudio a Tranne, Kostas a Triantis, Alessandro Chiarucci
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Rising Temperatures, Falling Leaves: Predicting the Fate of Cyprus’s Endemic Oak under Climate and Land Use Change
Endemic island species face heightened extinction risk from climate-driven shifts, yet standard models often underestimate threat …
Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Ioannis Constantinou, Maria Panitsa
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The future of plant diversity within a Mediterranean endemism centre: Modelling the synergistic effects of climate and land-use change in Peloponnese, Greece
Climate- and land-use change stand as primary threats to terrestrial biodiversity. Yet, their synergistic impacts on species …
Mariana Braz Pires, Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Sietze Norder, Panayotis Dimopoulos, Arne Strid, Maria Panitsa
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Conservation Responsibility for Priority Habitats under Future Climate Conditions: A Case Study on Juniperus drupacea Forests in Greece
Juniperus drupacea is a highly morphologically and genetically differentiated Tertiary relict, displaying a disjunct geographical range …
Ioannis P Kokkoris, Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Ioannis Charalampopoulos, Ektor Apostolidis, Ilias Apostolidis, Arne Strid, Panayotis Dimopoulos
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Short-and Mid-Term Spatiotemporal Diversity Patterns of Post-Fire Insect-Pollinated Plant Communities in the Mediterranean
In the Mediterranean, one of the most fire-prone regions in the world, wildfires are considered a key factor in vegetation …
Georgios Nakas, Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Theodora Petanidou
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