Adapting to a warming world: Ecological restoration, climate change, and genomics
Global climate change and other anthropogenic influences are rapidly transforming the habitats of many species. A species’ ability to cope will depend on its capacity to tolerate these changes in situ…
MoreConvergent local adaptation to climate in distantly related conifers
When confronted with an adaptive challenge, such as extreme temperature, closely related species frequently evolve similar phenotypes using the same genes. Although such repeated evolution is thought…
MoreIUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress: Call for Abstracts
The International Union of Forestry Research Institutions (IUFRO) celebrates its 125 years with an anniversary congress held in Freiburg, Germany, from 19 to 22 September 2017. The call for abstracts…
MoreDeveloping DNA-based timber tracking in Indonesia: Interview with Dr Anto Rimbawanto
DNA-based methods are increasingly used to help tackle illegal logging which is estimated to result in losses of revenues of 10-15 billion US$ in the affected timber-producing countries. These…
MoreRegulating the quality of seedlings for forest restoration: lessons from the National Greening Program in the Philippines
The use of low quality planting material is one of the major reasons for the limited success of past reforestation programs in the Philippines and elsewhere in the tropics. In the Philippines, a…
MoreFinding needles in a genomic haystack: targeted capture identifies clear signatures of selection in a nonmodel plant species
Teasing apart neutral and adaptive genomic processes and identifying loci that are targets of selection can be difficult, particularly for nonmodel species that lack a reference genome. However,…
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