About the Authors

Maria Margarida Ribeiro

mataide@ipcb.pt

Affiliations Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior Agrária, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Plant Ecology/ Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18 D, Uppsala, Sweden, Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal

Andrea Piotti

Affiliation Institute of Biosciences and BioResources, National Research Council, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy

Alexandra Ricardo

Affiliation Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior Agrária, Castelo Branco, Portugal

Daniel Gaspar

Affiliation INIAV, Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P., Av. República, Quinta do Marquês Oeiras, Portugal

Rita Costa

Affiliations Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal, INIAV, Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P., Av. República, Quinta do Marquês Oeiras, Portugal

Laura Parducci

Affiliation Plant Ecology/ Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18 D, Uppsala, Sweden

Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin

Affiliation Institute of Biosciences and BioResources, National Research Council, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MMR. Formal analysis: MMR AP. Funding acquisition: MMR RC GGV. Investigation: MMR DG AR. Project administration: MMR RC GGV. Resources: MMR RC GGV. Visualization: MMR AP. Writing – original draft: MMR AP. Writing – review & editing: MMR AP LP RC GGV.