Evolutionary responses are required for tree populations to be able to track climate change.
Results of 250 years of common garden experiments show that most forest trees have …

There is growing interest in quantifying genetic population structure across the geographical
ranges of species to understand why species might exhibit stable range limits and to assess …

The Quaternary cold periods in Europe are thought to have heavily influenced the amount
and distribution of intraspecific genetic variation in both animals and plants. The …

No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where
they do occur they are usually quite rare. Gaston discusses the structure of these …

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 …

The glacial episodes of the Quaternary (2.6 million years ago–present) were a major factor
in sha** the present-day distributions of extant flora and fauna, with expansions and …

This completely revised, fourth edition of Introduction to Plant Population Biology continues
the approach taken by its highly successful predecessors. Ecological and genetic principles …

Climatic oscillations in the Quaternary have played a major role in changing the
geographical distribution of plant species. Recent molecular work has provided new insights …

The location and survival of trees in the coldest stages of the last full-glacial has long been
of interest to palaeoecologists, biogeographers, archaeologists and geneticists alike. In …

The nature of species at the extremes of their ranges im**es fundamentally on diverse
biological issues, including species' range dynamics, population variability, speciation and …