Comparative Germination Ecology of Two Endemic <i>Rhaponticum </i>Species (<i>Asteraceae</i>) in Different Climatic Zones of the Ligurian and Maritime Alps (Piedmont, Italy)

Comparative studies of seed germination of closely related taxa can help increase our understanding of the ecological limitations of cold-adapted plants and forecast how they might respond to global warming. No studies exist on the relationship between thermoclimatic belts that classify mountain lif...

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Main Authors: Valentina Carasso, Marco Mucciarelli, Francesco Dovana, Jonas V Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-06-01
Series:Plants
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/6/708