Germinal Rouhan

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle · Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité

Based on an analysis of five plastid markers (atpA, atpB, rbcL, rps4-trnS, trnL/trnL-trnF), we show that Diplazium lechleri is sister to a clade formed by the Hemidictyaceae and Aspleniaceae. Thus, it does not belong to the Athyriaceae where previously classified. A new family, Desmophlebiaceae, and a new genus, Desmophlebium, are described to acco...

Phylogeny has long informed pteridophyte classification. As our ability to infer evolutionary trees has improved, classifications aimed at recognizing natural groups have become increasingly predictive and stable. Here, we provide a modern, comprehensive classification for lycophytes and ferns, down to the genus level, utilizing a community-based a...

Based on a worldwide phylogenetic framework filling the taxonomic gap of Madagascar and surrounding islands of the Western Indian Ocean (WIO), we revisited the systematics of grammitid fern species (Polypodiaceae). We also investigated the biogeographic origin of the extant diversity in Madagascar and estimated the relative influence of vicariance,...

After 15 years of field studies in Madagascar, especially focused on the overlooked fern genus Elaphoglossum (Dryopteridaceae), a synoptic revision of the genus is here presented. Based on more than 2,600 herbarium specimens including collections over 200 years, Elaphoglossum is the second most diversified fern genus in Madagascar, with 52 species...

Antrophyum is one of the largest genera of vittarioid ferns (Pteridaceae) and is most diverse in tropical Asia and the Pacific Islands, but also occurs in temperate Asia, Australia, tropical Africa and the Malagasy region. The only monographic study of Antrophyum was published more than a century ago and a modern assessment of its diversity is lack...

The pantropical fern family Gleicheniaceae comprises approximately 157 species. Seven genera are currently recognized in the family, although their monophyly is still uncertain due to low sampling in phylogenetic studies. We examined the monophyly of the genera through extended sampling, using the first phylogenomic inference of the family includin...

The fern genus Didymoglossum (Hymenophyllaceae) is not so diverse in Africa with seven species at most. However, its local taxonomy is surprisingly still strongly debated, in particular within the D. erosum complex interpreted either as a single polymorphic species or as a group of at least three distinct but morphologically very close taxa (D. ero...

Assessment methods have been developed to estimate a preliminary conservation status for species and subsequently to facilitate the building of Red Lists. Such pre-assessment methods could be particularly useful in the French Overseas Territories (FOTs) where Red Lists tend to be out-dated or absent and where a high number of endemic species face d...

Under the current treatment of the Blechnaceae, only one species of the fern genus Parablechnum is recognised in the western Indian Ocean, often referred to as P. marginatum . Two varieties are currently recognised within it: a type variety present in the Mascarene Islands of Réunion and Mauritius and P. marginatum var. humbertii in Madagascar. Rec...

The fern genus Abrodictyum (Hymenophyllaceae) is thought to have at least seven species in the Afro-Malagasy region. But morphological re-examination of uncommon specimens, comparison with supposedly related taxa, and a new molecular phylogenetic analysis clearly led to recognize an additional species for Madagascar. We here describe this new speci...

Guillaume Capus’ expeditions to Middle Asia between 1880 and 1887 resulted especially in an outstanding collection of about 3000 herbarium specimens still kept in the Paris herbarium (France). Gatherings of his fi rst expedition were quickly identifi ed by another French botanist, Adrien Franchet, in ‘Plants of Turkestan’ published in 1883-1884. As...

While the family Schizaeaceae (Schizaeales) represents only about 0.4% of the extant fern species diversity, it differs from other ferns greatly in gross morphologies, niche preferences, and life histories. One of the most notable features in this family is its mycoheterotrophic life style in the gametophytic stage, which appears to be associated w...

Vandenboschia radicans (supposedly Neotropical and African), V. speciosa (supposedly European and Macaronesian) and V. gigantea (supposedly from western Indian Ocean) are morphologically close species and often confused in collections and in floras. Moreover, the status of African populations is still strongly debated. We undertook to combine morph...

Two East Asian Lomariopsis (Lomariopsidaceae, Polypodiales) species, Lomariopsis moorei and Lomariopsis longini, which were previously misidentified as L. spectabilis, are here described as new species based on evidence from morphological characters and a molecular phylogeny. The two species differ from the three other described species in East Asi...

Herbaria can contribute to the evaluation of the floristic knowledge of territories and to the identification of “hotspots” of plant biodiversity; to the characterization of floristic regressions of certain species; and to the study of the history of introductions and expansion of invasive exotic species or of symbionts collected unintentionally wi...

TAXREF is the taxonomic register for all living organisms from metropolitain and overseas France, marine as well as continental. A new version is published each year. This 15th version can be downloaded here : https://inpn.mnhn.fr/telechargement/referentielEspece/taxref/15.0/menu

14 C is a radioisotope used in archeology to date ancient objects. In Egypt, the “peculiarity of the Nile”, with the regular floods that occurred on a recurrent basis before the construction of the Aswan dams, could have been at the origin of seasonal effects that caused the 14 C content of plants to fluctuate on regional scales, leading to deviati...

Curbing biodiversity loss and its impact on ecosystem services, resilience and Nature’s Contributions to People is one of the main challenges of our generation (IPBES, 2019b, 2019a; Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, 2020). A global baseline assessment of the threat status of all of biodiversity is crucial to moni...

The development of tree inventories and open data bases provides green space managers a better understanding of tree morphological diversity in urban areas. However, studies on tree genetic diversity in cities remain rare. The aim of our study is to provide better knowledge on tree intra- and interspecific diversity to improve tree management in ur...

The filmy fern genus Trichomanes mainly comprises Neotropical species and a few taxa in Africa and the western Indian Ocean. The aim of this study is to infer the phylogenetic placement of all five Afro-Malagasy taxa in the genus and to investigate their history via an expanded and dated phylogenetic analysis including 39 species representing over...

Les collections naturalistes ont désormais acquis une place inédite dans la recherche scientifique. Constituées à l’origine par la systématique et la taxonomie, elles se révèlent aujourd’hui fondamentales pour répondre à diverses questions scientifiques et sociétales, aussi importantes qu’actuelles.Les collections naturalistes dans la science du XX...

Les collections naturalistes ont désormais acquis une place inédite dans la recherche scientifique. Constituées à l’origine par la systématique et la taxonomie, elles se révèlent aujourd’hui fondamentales pour répondre à diverses questions scientifiques et sociétales, aussi importantes qu’actuelles.Les collections naturalistes dans la science du XX...

Les collections naturalistes ont désormais acquis une place inédite dans la recherche scientifique. Constituées à l’origine par la systématique et la taxonomie, elles se révèlent aujourd’hui fondamentales pour répondre à diverses questions scientifiques et sociétales, aussi importantes qu’actuelles.Les collections naturalistes dans la science du XX...

Blotiella currorii (Hook.) R.M.Tryon. (Dennstaedtiaceae), Dicranopteris linearis (Burm.F.) Underw. (Gleicheniaceae), and Aleuritopteris farinosa (Forssk.) Fée (Pteridaceae) are reported for the first time in the flora of Senegal. They represent not only three more species but also two new families, Dennstaedtiaceae and Gleicheniaceae, for Senegal....

A broad range of climatic and biogeographical conditions are represented in the French Overseas Territories, from sub-polar to equatorial, resulting in a high diversity of endemic species. We mobilized data from herbaria, floras, checklists, literature, the expertise of botanists and plant ecologists to compile the most complete dataset on endemic...

With the exception of French Guiana and Adélie Land, the French Overseas Territories (FOTs) are islands and their biodiversity is remarkable in many ways. Notably, they harbour numerous unique taxa leading to exceptionally high rates of endemism. Among French endemic plants, 95% occur in the FOTs, accounting for ca. 4000 species of tracheophytes an...

Madagascar is a continental island in the Indian Ocean, renowned for both its extraordinary biodiversity and the threats it faces. Ferns and lycophytes are the two lineages of vascular plants with spores. The authors use them as biological models in biogeographic studies, as they present several traits that allow us to test different hypotheses abo...

Taxonomy is the science that explores, describes, names, and classifies all organisms. In this introductory chapter, we highlight the major historical steps in the elaboration of this science, which provides baseline data for all fields of biology and plays a vital role for society but is also an independent, complex, and sound hypothesis-driven sc...

In the fern family Blechnaceae, Cranfillia Gasper & V.A.O.Dittrich and Austroblechnum Gasper & V.A.O.Dittrich are two genera recently described from the splitting of Blechnum L. The assignation of species to Cranfillia or Austroblechnum could be difficult due to their morphological similarities. Focusing on Austroblechnum bakeri (C.Chr.) Gasper & V...

The thelypteroid fern genus Stegnogramma s.l. contains around 18–35 species and has a global, cross‐continental distribution ranging from tropical to temperate regions. Several genera and infrageneric sections have been recognized previously in Stegnogramma s.l., but their phylogenetic relationships are still unclear. In this study, we present a gl...

Contexte et objectifs – La conservation durable de la biodiversité requiert une bonne compréhension des causes de son déclin. Mis à part les activités humaines, les changements climatiques se révèlent comme la principale menace qui pèse sur la biodiversité au 21ème siècle. Notre étude vise à déterminer l’impact du changement climatique sur les Ptér...

Host–parasite coevolution can maintain high levels of genetic diversity in traits involved in species interactions. In many systems, host traits exploited by parasites are constrained by use in other functions, leading to complex selective pressures across space and time. Here, we study genome-wide variation in the staple crop Sorghum bicolor (L.)...

The conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity requires an understanding of the biotic and abiotic factors that condition the presence and survival of organisms in natural habitats. The global distribution and ecological hypersensitivity of pteridophytes have made them ideal candidates for studying the impact of biotic and abiotic fact...

Host-parasite coevolution can maintain high levels of genetic diversity in traits involved in species interactions. In many systems, host traits exploited by parasites are constrained by use in other functions, leading to complex selective pressures across space and time. Here, we study genome-wide variation in the staple crop Sorghum bicolor (L.)...

A new endemic species of Sagina L., Sagina hookeri Timaná, sp. nov. (Caryophyllaceae) is described for the flora of Île Amsterdam, in the southern Indian Ocean (French Southern and Antarctic Lands). Differences between this taxon and S. diffusa (Hook.f.) Timaná (endemic to the neighboring island of Saint-Paul) and S. procumbens L. (introduced in se...

In the Flore des Mascareignes, BADRÉ (2008) has treated the name Diplazium proliferoides Bory as synonymy of D. proliferum Lam. Thouars emphasized that the fronds dissection of both taxa were different : D. proliferum has pinnate fronds whereas D. proliferoides has bipinnatid to bipinnate fronds. We show here, through cytological and biometric data...

Dans le cadre de la révision des fougères grammitides (Pteridophyta, Polypodiaceae, Grammitidoideae) de Madagascar, onze taxons nouveaux (dix espèces et une variété) sont décrits et illustrés: Ceradenia ivohibensis Rakotondr. & Parris, sp. nov., Ceradenia pseudodevoluta Rakotondr. & Parris, sp. nov., Ctenopterella lastii Parris & Rakotondr., sp. no...

Las islas Canarias poseen una flora muy peculiar que ha atraído el interés de numerosos naturalistas desde el siglo XVI, pero, principalmente, a partir de finales del siglo XVII, cuando las potencias europeas comenzaron a financiar expediciones científicas alrededor del mundo. Algunas hicieron escala en el archipiélago y, a su regreso, llevaron sem...

We here explore the diversity and ecology, and update the taxonomy of the fern family hymenophyllaceae, which forms one of the most diverse and emblematic fern assemblages in rainforests of the Mascarene archipelago in western Indian Ocean. Since 1999, we extracted data from floras, literature, and field investigations conducted, and from an exhaus...

We here explore the diversity and ecology, and update the taxonomy of the fern family hymenophyllaceae, which forms one of the most diverse and emblematic fern assemblages in rainforests of the Mascarene archipelago in western Indian Ocean. Since 1999, we extracted data from floras, literature, and field investigations conducted, and from an exhaus...

We here explore the diversity and ecology, and update the taxonomy of the fern family hymenophyllaceae, which forms one of the most diverse and emblematic fern assemblages in rainforests of the Mascarene archipelago in western Indian Ocean. Since 1999, we extracted data from floras, literature, and field investigations conducted, and from an exhaus...

Natural History Collections allow tackling many questions in ecology and evolution, through the data provided by both the specimens themselves and the labels linked to the specimens, with rare advantages: data are real, spanned over time, checkable for accurate identifications, and the preserved physical objects make them not questionable. In parti...

To stabilize the application of some names in the genus Isoetes in the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot, we studied herbarium specimens and imaged spores with scanning electron microscopy, with special reference to those taxa in the I. longissima and I. histrix groups that were described from France, Algeria and Turkey, and are in need of a taxon...

Current molecular phylogenetic analyses support the monophyly and circumscription of the athyrioid fern genus Deparia (Athyr-iaceae), which includes previously recognized genera including Athyriopsis, 3Depazium, Dictyodroma, Dryoathyrium (5 Parathyrium), Lunathyrium, and Neotriblemma (5 Triblemma Ching), and 3Neotribleparia. This broad generic conc...

The present work proposes, for the first time, a study exclusively focused on the diversity of Pteridophytes in Togo. The study was based on fieldwork that resulted in 869 new collections gathered between 2013 and 2017 in the country and on yet existing herbarium specimens kept at the Herbaria of Lomé and Paris. Thus, a total number of 1092 specim...

Considered as a hotspot for biodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin, Lebanon is currently witnessing anarchic urbanization and unprecedented destruction of its natural habitats. Unregulated urbanization is also compounded by the surge in Lebanon’s population due to the unabated influx of Syrian refugees since 2012. This work aims to define Importan...

Based on collections of 45 Herbaria in addition to newly collected specimens and some field observations, a taxonomic treatment for South American Ctenitis is provided, a hundred years after Christensen’s monographs. Guided by morphological species concept, 26 taxa are recognized (23 species and three varieties). A key including all taxa is provide...

Premise of research. Odontites is an herbaceous genus composed of 27 species, mostly distributed around the Mediterranean Basin. As a first step toward studying species diversification within this genus, our goals were to (i) test previous hypotheses about phylogenetic relationships among species; (ii) assess whether the closely related genera Bart...

Rumohra is a fern genus comprising seven species, three in South America, three in Madagascar and one (R. adiantiformis) which is widely distributed across the Southern Hemisphere. Our goals were to assess species delimitation based on molecular data and to infer the biogeographical history that led to such contrasting distributions among species....

Based on a worldwide dataset of molecular sequence data from three plastid DNA markers (rbcL, rbcL-accD-accD, rps4-trnS) obtained from 109 species of Hymenophyllum (Hymenophyllaceae), we investigated the systematics and bioge- ographic origins of the New Caledonian (NC) members of this fern genus, which were thought to include 16 species with 10 en...

Among the Campyloneurum that occur entirely or primarily in the Atlantic Rain Forest of Brazil, three species have been previously referred to by the following six names: C. acrocarpon, C. crispum, C. herbaceum, C. lapathifolium, C. minus, and C. wacketii. We show that C. crispum and C. herbaceum are the correct names for two of the species, and we...

A taxonomic revision of Ctenitis (C. Chr.) C. Chr. (Dryopteridaceae) from Africa and the Western Indian Ocean was carried out. Forty species are recognized, of which 12 are described as new, eight are transferred to Ctenitis from other genera, and one is elevated from variety to species and transferred from Aspidium Sw. to Ctenitis. These 21 nomenc...

The inventory of biodiversity in the Comoros archipelago is still in progress. We propose here to contribute to this effort by assessing the diversity of the Hymenophyllaceae family, which forms one of the most diverse and emblematic fern communities in rainforests of the region. Data were extracted from floras, literature, recent collects and obse...

The diverse and pantropical genus Ctenitis, in the Dryopteridaceae, has been largely ignored in phylogenetic studies until now. In this study, we fill in this gap by reconstructing the first comprehensive phylogeny of the genus including 53 species currently recognized in the genus Ctenitis, among which seven species formerly were assigned to the g...

We provide a quantitative description of the French national herbarium vascular plants collection dataset. Held at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris, it currently comprises records for 5,400,000 specimens, representing 90% of the estimated total of specimens. Ninety nine percent of the specimen entries are linked to one or more images...

Deparia, including the previously recognized genera Lunathyrium, Dryoathyrium (=Parathyrium), Athyriopsis, Triblemma, and Dictyodroma, is a fern genus comprising about 70 species in Athyriaceae. In this study, we inferred a robust Deparia phylogeny based on a comprehensive taxon sampling (~81% of species) that captures the morphological diversity d...

The fern flora of the Seychelles archipelago remains relatively poorly known. Recent projects involving the development of the Seychelles National Herbarium and study of key biodiversity areas have resulted in extensive explorations of the ferns on the granitic islands. Historical literature, newly collected specimens and older collections have bee...

Descriptors of the term radiation (excluding “adaptive”) in the titles of the articles examined. The article codes are the same than the ones used in Online resource 3

Structure of the database gathering the data about the taxon and the area investigated, the hypotheses, the methods, and the conclusions as extracted from the set of articles dealing with radiations published in five journals over the 2003 – 2012 time period. The NA (not applicable) and ND (no data) coding options are not listed in this table. GPR:...

The dataset underlying our scientometric study

Number of articles found after the first (automatic request on the Web of Science TM database) and third round (assessment of the focus of the article) of selection, for each of the five journals selected, over the 2003–2012 time period

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