Postglacial range expansion and its genetic imprints in Abies alba (Mill.) - A synthesis from palaeobotanic and genetic data

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 153, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 139-149

  Liepelt, Sascha ^a   Cheddadi, Rachid ^b   de Beaulieu, Jacques Louis ^c   Fady, Bruno ^d   Gömöry, Dušan ^e   Hussendörfer, Erwin ^f   Konnert, Monika ^g   Litt, Thomas ^h   Longauer, Roman ⁱ   Terhürne Berson, Ruth ^h   Ziegenhagen, Birgit ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN ZVOLEN   (Slovakia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WEIHENSTEPHAN TRIESDORF   (Germany)

^g Bavarian Institution for Forest Seeding and Planting   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

ⁱ NATIONAL FOREST CENTRE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Abies; allozymes; Central Europe; DNA markers; genetic diversity; macroremains; multiple refugia; palynology

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; PALEOBOTANY; POSTGLACIAL; RANGE EXPANSION; REFUGIUM;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA;

EID: 56449119016     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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