Conditional Seed Dormancy Helps Brullo & Signor. Overcome Stressful Mediterranean Summer Conditions.

Investigations on seed biology and ecology are of major importance for the conservation of threatened plants, both providing baseline information and suggesting practical approaches. In our study, we focused on the germination behavior of Brullo & Signor., a narrow endemic species to Panarea and Alicudi (Aeolian Archipelago, Italy), as well as one of the 50 most threatened Mediterranean island plants.

A new species of Catomus Allard, 1876 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) from the Aeolian archipelago (Sicily, Italy).

Catomus aeolicus sp. nov. is described from the Aeolian archipelago (Sicily, Italy).