Adaptation to climate change: Genetic variation is both a short- and a long-term solution

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 704-709

  Beaulieu, Jean ^a   Rainville, André ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; GIS; Plantation; Provenance test; Site index; Transfer model; White spruce

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SEED;

PROVENANCE TEST; SEED SOURCE; TRANSFER MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GENETIC VARIATION; INDEX METHOD; MODELING; PLANTATION; YIELD;

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GIS; IMPACT; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PLANTATIONS; SITE INDEX;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 27644485508     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: 00157546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc81704-5     Document Type: Review

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