Gene flow and local adaptation in trees

O Savolainen, T Pyhäjärvi, T Knürr - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Populations are locally adapted when populations have the highest relative fitness at their
home sites, and lower fitness in other parts of the range. Results from the extensive …

A meta‐analysis of dispersal in butterflies

VM Stevens, C Turlure, M Baguette - Biological Reviews, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersal has recently gained much attention because of its crucial role in the conservation
and evolution of species facing major environmental changes such as habitat loss and …

The paradox of forest fragmentation genetics

AT Kramer, JL Ison, MV Ashley… - Conservation …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Theory predicts widespread loss of genetic diversity from drift and inbreeding in trees
subjected to habitat fragmentation, yet empirical support of this theory is scarce. We argue …

Intra-specific variability in biomass partitioning and carbon isotopic discrimination under moderate drought stress in seedlings from four Pinus pinaster populations

I Aranda, R Alía, U Ortega, ÂK Dantas… - Tree Genetics & …, 2010 - Springer
The response to drought of 20 open-pollinated families from four Pinus pinaster Ait.
populations covering a latitudinal cline (France, Central and Southern Spain, and Morocco) …

Mind the lag: understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation

R Gargiulo, KB Budde, M Heuertz - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - cell.com
The delay between disturbance events and genetic responses within populations is a
common but surprisingly overlooked phenomenon in ecology and evolutionary and …

Managing uncertainty in Scots pine range-wide adaptation under climate change

HR Hallingbäck, V Burton… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Forests provide important ecosystem services and renewable materials. Yet, under a future
climate, optimal conditions will likely shift outside the current range for some tree species …

Rapid evolution and range expansion of an invasive plant are driven by provenance–environment interactions

RD Zenni, JK Bailey, D Simberloff - Ecology letters, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
To improve our ability to prevent and manage biological invasions, we must understand their
ecological and evolutionary drivers. We are often able to explain invasions after they …

Fruit production is influenced by tree size and size‐asymmetric crowding in a wet tropical forest

DM Minor, RK Kobe - Ecology and evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In tropical forest communities, seedling recruitment can be limited by the number of fruit
produced by adults. Fruit production tends to be highly unequal among trees of the same …

Inducibility of plant secondary metabolites in the stem predicts genetic variation in resistance against a key insect herbivore in maritime pine

X López-Goldar, C Villari, P Bonello… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Resistance to herbivores and pathogens is considered a key plant trait with strong adaptive
value in trees, usually involving high concentrations of a diverse array of plant secondary …

Divergent selection in a Mediterranean pine on local spatial scales

KB Budde, C Rellstab, M Heuertz, F Gugerli… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of selection on an organism's genome are hard to detect on small spatial scales,
as gene flow can swamp signatures of local adaptation. Therefore, most genome scans to …