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 widespread use of microsatellite loci has spurred the recent development of many new
statistical methods for inferring kin relationships from molecular data. We now have an …

Characteristics of tree species may uniquely situate them to withstand environmental
changes. Paleoecological evidence indicates that the geographic ranges of tree species …

Likelihood methods have been developed to partition individuals in a sample into sibling
clusters using genetic marker data without parental information. Most of these methods …

Even before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, the perception of evolutionary
change has been a tree-like pattern of diversification-with divergent branches spreading …

Dispersal is a key individual‐based process influencing many life‐history attributes and
scaling up to population‐level properties (eg metapopulation connectivity). A persistent …

Successful hybridisation and subsequent introgression lead to the transfer of genetic
material across species boundaries. In this process, species relative abundance can play a …

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 …

Genetic connectivity in plant populations is determined by gene movement within and
among populations. When populations become genetically isolated, they are at risk of loss …

DNA microsatellites provide plant ecologists with molecular markers precise enough to
assign parentage to seeds and seedlings. This allows the exact distance and trajectory of …