About the Authors

Jalal Kassout

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Equipe bio-Agrodiversité, Laboratoire Botanique Appliquée, Faculté des Sciences, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Tétouan, Morocco, Associated International Laboratory EVOLEA, INEE-CNRS- CNRST, Montpellier, France, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Equipe Dynamique de la Biodiversité, Anthropo-Ecologie, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Jean-Frederic Terral

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Associated International Laboratory EVOLEA, INEE-CNRS- CNRST, Montpellier, France, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Equipe Dynamique de la Biodiversité, Anthropo-Ecologie, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

John G. Hodgson

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Unit of Comparative Plant Ecology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Mohammed Ater

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

mohammed.ater@gmail.com

Affiliations Equipe bio-Agrodiversité, Laboratoire Botanique Appliquée, Faculté des Sciences, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Tétouan, Morocco, Associated International Laboratory EVOLEA, INEE-CNRS- CNRST, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.