History:
- Origins, definitions, aims and scopes of biogeography
- Island Biogeography
- Fundamentals of Phytogeography
Role of island systems:
- Dispersal, barriers, extinction
- Isolation, diversification and allopatric speciation
- Concepts of endemism, pandemism and cosmopolitism
Cases study from the Mediterranean region:
- Biogeography of the Mediterranean Basin
- Main characters of Mediterranean island floras
- Palaeoendemism, schizoendemism and neoendemism
- The Silene mollissima group (Caryophyllaceae)
- The genus Borago (Boraginaceae)
- The genus Centaurea (Asteraceae)
- The genus Cyclamen sect. Psilanthus (Primulaceae)