Phylogeography of the East Eurasian Flora (Special Issue in Plants journal edited by Igor Bartish)
Igor Bartish from our department is editting Special Issue in Plants journal:
Climatic changes in the Pleistocene have been associated with spectacular range shifts and adaptive processes in plant populations. Expansion and fragmentation of species ranges, reshuffling of population structure, fluctuations of genetic diversity within populations, differentiation of ecotypes within species, and other signs of evolutionary processes have been revealed in multiple plant species. Main bulk of studies in this research area originated so far from New World and Western Eurasia. However, the contemporary evolutionary processes in the flora of Central, Eastern and Northern Eurasia are currently understudied. Unlike the other continental regions in the Northern Hemisphere, localization of the main glacial refugia and recolonization routes for particular groups of plant species with specific ecological adaptations in these regions has not been clarified. The suggested special issue should help to cover this gap in our knowledge of evolutionary processes in the Pleistocene in different parts of the Northern Hemisphere
Keywords: evolutionary adaptations, climatic changes, ecological differentiation, Eurasian flora, phylogeography, Quaternary, population genetics
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021
Special Issue Editor:
Guest Editor: Bartish Igor
Affiliation: Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Pruhonice CZ-25243, Czech Republic
Homepage:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Igor_Bartish
https://www.ibot.cas.cz/popekol
https://www.ibot.cas.cz/popekol/?projects-category=extant-habitat-types-as-harbors-of-evolutionary-heritage&lang=en
E-Mail: Igor.Bartish@ibot.cas.cz
Tel: +420777254422
Interests: biogeography, population genetics, phylogeography, evolutionary ecology, phylogenetics, molecular systematics, paleoecology