The potential of genomics for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity

MF Breed, PA Harrison, C Blyth, M Byrne… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Billions of hectares of natural ecosystems have been degraded through human actions. The
global community has agreed on targets to halt and reverse these declines, and the …

TERN, Australia's land observatory: addressing the global challenge of forecasting ecosystem responses to climate variability and change

J Cleverly, D Eamus, W Edwards, M Grant… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The global challenge of understanding and forecasting ecosystem responses to climate
extremes and climate change is addressed in this review of research enabled through …

Priority actions to improve provenance decision-making

MF Breed, PA Harrison, A Bischoff, P Durruty… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Selecting the geographic origin—the provenance—of seed is a key decision in restoration.
The last decade has seen a vigorous debate on whether to use local or nonlocal seed. The …

Evidence of genomic adaptation to climate in Eucalyptus microcarpa: Implications for adaptive potential to projected climate change

R Jordan, AA Hoffmann, SK Dillon… - Molecular ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding whether populations can adapt in situ or whether interventions are required
is of key importance for biodiversity management under climate change. Landscape …

Biogeographic barriers, Pleistocene refugia, and climatic gradients in the southeastern Nearctic drive diversification in cornsnakes (Pantherophis guttatus complex)

EA Myers, AD McKelvy, FT Burbrink - Molecular Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The southeastern Nearctic is a biodiversity hotspot that is also rich in cryptic species.
Numerous hypotheses (eg, vicariance, local adaptation, and Pleistocene speciation in …

Digging for the spiny rat and hutia phylogeny using a gene capture approach, with the description of a new mammal subfamily

M Courcelle, MK Tilak, YLR Leite, EJP Douzery… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Next generation sequencing (NGS) and genomic database mining allow biologists to gather
and select large molecular datasets well suited to address phylogenomics and molecular …

Signatures of polygenic adaptation associated with climate across the range of a threatened fish species with high genetic connectivity

KA Harrisson, SJ Amish, A Pavlova… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptive differences across species' ranges can have important implications for population
persistence and conservation management decisions. Despite advances in genomic …

Genetic variation and signatures of natural selection in populations of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) along precipitation gradients

L Cuervo-Alarcon, M Arend, M Müller… - Tree Genetics & …, 2018 - Springer
European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is one of the most important forest tree species in
Europe, and its genetic adaptation potential to climate change is of great interest. Saplings …

Adaptive potential of Coffea canephora from Uganda in response to climate change

SO de Aquino, C Kiwuka, R Tournebize… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding vulnerabilities of plant populations to climate change could help preserve
their biodiversity and reveal new elite parents for future breeding programmes. To this end …

From genomes to populations: A meta-analysis and review of fern population genetics

JA Pelosi, EB Sessa - International Journal of Plant Sciences, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Premise of research. Numbering around 10,000 species, ferns are the second-largest group
of vascular plants. Relatively little work, however, has focused on the population genetic …