Warming-induced desiccation of the fertile topsoil layer could lead to decreased nutrient diffusion, mobility, mineralization and uptake by roots. Increased vertical decoupling between nutrients in water availability subsoil/bedrock layers under warming thereby reduce cumulative over growing season. We used a Mediterranean semiarid shrubland as model system assess impacts warming-induced on pla...

The family Cistaceae (Angiosperm, Malvales) consists of 8 genera and 180 species, with 5 genera native to the Mediterranean area (Cistus, Fumara, Halimium, Helianthemum, and Tuberaria). Traditionally, a number of Cistus species have been used in Mediterranean folk medicine as herbal tea infusions for healing digestive problems and colds, as extracts for the treatment of diseases, and as fragran...

The species concept within the genus Picoa Vittad. is here revisited in light of new molecular and ecological data obtained from samples collected throughout the Mediterranean basin. Two highly diverse widespread clades and four additional minor lineages were significantly supported by three genes dataset (ITS, 28s LSU and RPB2) inferences for 70 specimens. The two widespread clades occur in ve...

Desert truffles are edible hypogeous (forming fruit bodies below ground) fungi that grow in semi-arid and arid areas. They highly valued for both their culinary medicinal properties the Mediterranean basin, Middle East Gulf form mycorrhizae mostly with plants belonging to Cistaceae family, mainly Helianthemum species. These still, usually, collected from wild, but loss of habitats due urbanizat...

The distribution and abundance of the various truffle species are influenced by climate, soil, vegetation conditions. setting these characteristics is necessary for potential species’ cultivation. Here, we describe ecological Moroccan truffles desert their associations with host plants. We also determine climate soil parameters relating to geographic fructification truffles. In contrast truffle...

• Ecological indicators such as diversity and species richness are useful for assessing heavy metals pollution. L. spartum , G. decander, A. serratuloides species. Cement pollution has negative impact on vegetation cover. Industrial remains a driving force to ecosystem alteration. Pollutants released in the atmosphere interacting turn with other components of earth system plant Despite long-ter...