Forest tree species adaptation to climate across biomes: Building on the legacy of ecological genetics to anticipate responses to climate change

L Leites, M Benito Garzón - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Intraspecific variation plays a critical role in extant and future forest responses to climate
change. Forest tree species with wide climatic niches rely on the intraspecific variation …

Sky Islands are a global tool for predicting the ecological and evolutionary consequences of climate change

SJ Love, JA Schweitzer, SA Woolbright… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Sky islands are unique geologic formations, home to populations of organisms that have
weathered climate change since the Pleistocene. Long-term isolation and climatic …

Crop genomic selection with deep learning and environmental data: A survey

S Jubair, M Domaratzki - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Machine learning techniques for crop genomic selections, especially for single-environment
plants, are well-developed. These machine learning models, which use dense genome …

Genetic basis of growth, spring phenology, and susceptibility to biotic stressors in maritime pine

A Hurel, M de Miguel, C Dutech… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Forest ecosystems are increasingly challenged by extreme events, for example, drought,
storms, pest attacks, and fungal pathogen outbreaks, causing severe ecological and …

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 …

Polygenic adaptation and negative selection across traits, years and environments in a long‐lived plant species (Pinus pinaster Ait., Pinaceae)

M de Miguel, I Rodríguez‐Quilón, M Heuertz… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A decade of genetic association studies in multiple organisms suggests that most complex
traits are polygenic; that is, they have a genetic architecture determined by numerous loci …

Transformative changes in tree breeding for resilient forest restoration

D Ray, M Berlin, R Alia, L Sanchez… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Deciding how to establish woodland in forest restoration is not straightforward as different
outcomes may be obtained from different establishment approaches, each with cost …

Phylogeography and climate shape the quantitative genetic landscape and range‐wide plasticity of a prevalent conifer

J Voltas, R Amigó, TA Shestakova… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The contribution of genetic adaptation and plasticity to intraspecific phenotypic variability
remains insufficiently studied in long‐lived plants, as well as the relevance of neutral versus …

Evaluating genomic offset predictions in a forest tree with high population genetic structure

J Archambeau, M Benito-Garzón, M De-Miguel… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Predicting how tree populations will respond to climate change is an urgent societal
concern. An increasingly popular way to make such predictions is the genomic offset (GO) …

Macro- and micro-geographical genetic variation in early-fitness traits in populations of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster)

A Solé-Medina, A Hurel, C Avanzi… - Annals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Assessing adaptive genetic variation and its spatial
distribution is crucial to conserve forest genetic resources and manage species' adaptive …