Increasing temperatures and drought risks through climate change are expected to have
several consequences for European forests. Adaptive strategies may include:(i) persistence …

Molecular diversity analysis of deciduous pubescent oaks was conducted for populations
from Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia. The aims of this study were twofold. First, to provide data …

Traceability of forest material has received recently increasing interest and European
regulations already apply on forest reproductive material and timber. DNA fingerprinting …

The history of repeated northern glacial cycling and southern climatic stability has long
dominated explanations for how genetic diversity is distributed within temperate species in …

Central European white oaks expanded rapidly after the last glacial period and reached
their current distribution range during the early Holocene. They have been an important …

Assessing the distribution of chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) haplotype variation is useful for
studying the phylogeography of angiosperms. In the last two decades the cpDNA …

Aim According to the palynological record, rapid plant migrations following the retreat of the
last glacier were common in North America and Europe. However, providing an explanation …

We studied the genetic composition of 200 pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) trees at nine
nuclear microsatellite gene loci. We sampled nine locations in an area of 1100 km by 400 …

Oak species (Quercus spp.) in Central Europe grow on a relatively wide range of sites. Due
to the economic importance of oak for its wood and other products, oak forests have long …

The camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora) is an important natural resource in East Asia.
From the early eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, C. camphora was widely cultivated to …