Adaptive potential of northernmost tree populations to climate change, with emphasis on Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.)

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 526-536

  Savolainen, Outi ^a   Kujala, Sonja T ^a   Sokol, Catherina ^a   Pyhäjärvi, Tanja ^a   Avia, Komlan ^a   Knürr, Timo ^b   Kärkkäinen, Katri ^c   Hicks, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

DNA variation; phenotypic clines; photoperiod; pollen production; range margin

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FORESTRY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLACIAL PERIOD; GROWTH PERIOD; HAPLOTYPE MAP; MALE; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLLEN; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SCOTS PINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TREE GROWTH;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; TREES;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 80052072076     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esr056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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