Integrated conservation of important plant taxa through the improvement of the original plant micro-reserve (PMR) approach: The intensive PMR monitoring case of Ophrys kotschyi

Climate and Land-Cover Change Impacts and Extinction Risk Assessment of Rare and Threatened Endemic Taxa of Chelmos-Vouraikos National Park (Peloponnese, Greece)

“…Extinction risk assessments of regional endemic and rare species across different climate change scenarios are essential for their conservation and management planning strategy [17][18][19][20]. Conservation strategies are needed to address the ongoing loss of plant diversity, and especially for the protection of rare and threatened plant species in the Mediterranean Basin [21].…”

“…Conservation strategies are needed to address the ongoing loss of plant diversity, and especially for the protection of rare and threatened plant species [21], even of a single species [52]. The plant micro-reserve (PMR) concept of a less than 20 ha surface protected area aims to protect the main subpopulations of rare endemic taxa through the establishment of a continuous monitoring system [53] and is a complementary tool to preserve biodiversity in larger protected areas [54,55].…”

“…In the framework of a project dealing with the development of a plant micro-reserve (PMR) network that will be located on public land, within Chelmos-Vouraikos National Park, the project's main goal was to design the first PMR network on the Greek mainland, based on previous efforts, experience and outcomes concerning PMRs in Spain, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece (on the island of Crete), Italy, and Lebanon [21,[53][54][55][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74]. A designed PMR network includes, among others, populations of local endemic and rare plants, restricted to extremely small areas.…”