Glacial relicts have been regionally more common in glacial than in recent times. A rigorous
assessment of which species are indeed glacial relicts is extremely difficult because direct …

Climate warming alters plant composition and population dynamics of arctic ecosystems. In
particular, an increase in relative abundance and cover of deciduous shrub species …

Plant seeds exhibit many species-specific traits, thus potentially being especially helpful for
forensic investigations. Seeds of a broad range of plant species occur in soil seed banks of …

The relict character of the Scots pine populations from the Tatra Mts.(Western Carpathians)
was formed on scarcely accessible, ecologically extreme habitats, in areas which were not …

Abstract [eng] The main objective of the study was to evaluate the population characteristics
of Betula nana under different anthropogenic influences. The study was conducted in the …

В статье обсуждается использование микросателлитных (SSR) маркеров для оценки
генетических ресурсов берёзы. Показано, что ДНК-анализ с помощью 12 …

New palaeoecological records from two glacial lakes (the Mały Staw–1183 m asl and the
Wielki Staw–1225 m asl) from the Polish Western Sudetes were obtained with the aim of …

The Alps played an important role in the biogeography of European plants and acted as a
refugium for numerous species during the interglacial cycles. We investigated Nuphar …

Outcrossed mating systems play a very important role in the persistence of endangered, self-
incompatible plants such as shrub birch, Betula humilis Schrk. The goal of this study was to …

In the present study, the impact of geographical isolation and habitat conditions on genetic
diversity and sexual reproduction was tested in four relict populations of dwarf birch Betula …