Comparative Plastomics of Plantains (, Plantaginaceae) as a Tool for the Development of Species-Specific DNA Barcodes.

(plantains, Plantaginaceae) is a cosmopolitan genus including over 250 species used as functional foods, forage, and traditional medicine. Among them, is commonly used as an ingredient of herbal products, but the close similarity to other species can cause misidentifications with potentially serious consequences for product safety/quality. To test the possibility of developing species-specific barcoding markers, we de novo assembled plastome sequences of individuals of , , , and .

Red-listed plants are contracting their elevational range faster than common plants in the European Alps.

Mountain ecosystems are exposed to multiple anthropogenic pressures that are reshaping the distribution of plant populations. Range dynamics of mountain plants exhibit large variability with species expanding, shifting, or shrinking their elevational range. Using a dataset of more than 1 million records of common and red-listed native and alien plants, we could reconstruct range dynamics of 1,479 species of the European Alps over the last 30 y.

Topography of the Dolomites modulates range dynamics of narrow endemic plants under climate change.

Climate change is expected to threaten endemic plants in the Alps. In this context, the factors that may modulate species responses are rarely investigated at a local scale. We analyzed eight alpine narrow endemics of the Dolomites (southeastern Alps) under different predicted climate change scenarios at fine spatial resolutions.

Consistent population declines but idiosyncratic range shifts in Alpine orchids under global change.

Mountains are plant biodiversity hotspots considered particularly vulnerable to multiple environmental changes. Here, we quantify population changes and range-shift dynamics along elevational gradients over the last three decades for c. two-thirds of the orchid species of the European Alps.