The presentation of the CESAB group LOLA-BMS at the 2016 french ecology conference in the FRB-CESAB session "Using a treasury of knowledge to tackle complex ecological questions." Presented by Arndt Hampe.

1. Origin and congruence of taxonomic,
phylogenetic and functional diversity
in the Mediterranean woody flora
Arndt Hampe
UMR 1202 BioGeCo (INRA)
for the WOODIV consortium

2. The Mediterranean Basin:
global hotspot of plant diversity
Mittermeier et al. (2000) Nature
Montoya et al. (2007) Ecography
Number of tree species

3. Bioclimates
as defined by
annual rainfall
Diversity of Mediterranean environments
Quézel & Médail (2003)

4. Regional hotspots of plant diversity
and endemism in the Mediterranean
Médail & Quézel (1997) Ann Miss Bot Gard

5. The WOODIV project: research questions
How has woody plant biodiversity been shaped?
How do different facets of biodiversity
complement each other?
Taxonomic
FunctionalGenetic

6. Why do we focus on trees?
• 22% of total land area
• Keystone organisms
• Relevant surrogates of
biodiversity patterns
• Long evolutionary history
• Relatively well known

7. Marseille
The WOODIV team
Agathe Leriche
13 members and 5 collaborators
from Croatia, France, Greece, Italy and Spain

8. Assembling published information
Taxonomy: complete species list
Genetics: phylogeny based on
five standard molecular markers
Functional traits: near complete
database of diverse species traits
Regional floras
GenBank et al.
Floras & databases
(TRY et al.)

9. Assembling published information
Taxonomy: complete species list
Genetics: phylogeny based on
five standard molecular markers
Functional traits: near complete
database of diverse species traits
Final list: 202 spp.
Data for >150 taxa
Data for >20 traits

10. Exploiting the assembled knowledge
Taxonomy: complete species list
Genetics: phylogeny based on
five standard molecular markers
Functional traits: near complete
database of diverse species traits
Mediterranean
biogeography
Tree evolution &
macroecology
Forest dynamics &
conservation
Drivers, dynamics &
metrics of woody
plant biodiversity

11. Thank you
Members: Agathe Leriche, Juan Arroyo, Gianluigi Bacchetta,
Vincent Devictor, Aggeliki Doxa, Panayotis Dimopoulos, Bruno
Fady, Valentina Garavaglia, Joël Guiot, Arndt Hampe, Frédéric
Médail, Toni Nikolic & Beppe Vendramin
Collaborators: Cécile Albert, Francesca Bagnoli, Alex Baumel,
Marwan Cheikh Albassatneh & Frédéric Guiter
Project duration: 09/2015 – 02/018