Andreas Tribsch

TL;DR: A comparison of the phylogeographic patterns with geological and palaeoenvironmental data demonstrates that glacial refugia were located along the southwestern, southern, eastern and northern border of the Alps, which implies that evolutionary or biogeographic processes induced by climatic fluctuations act on gene and species diversity in a similar way.

TL;DR: Test hypotheses on Pleistocene refugia for mountain plants in the eastern part of the European Alps derived from palaeoenvironmental and geological results are tested, with new data on distributional patterns of vascular plant endemics and molecular phylogeographies of selected species.

TL;DR: This study shows that deep phylogeographic splits resulting from old vicariance events can be concealed by presently contiguous distribution areas, and can be related to glacial refugia in peripheral areas of the Alps that were recognised in previous studies.

TL;DR: The relevance of particular ecological factors in shaping genetic patterns, which should be considered when modelling species projective distributions under climate change scenarios, are demonstrated.

TL;DR: The authors' results favour glacial survival in peripheral, unglaciated or not fully glaciated areas of P. globulariifolium within the Alps, which suggests high levels of gene‐flow over short to middle distances.