Assisted gene flow to facilitate local adaptation to climate change

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 44, Issue , 2013, Pages 367-388

  Aitken, Sally N ^a   Whitlock, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assisted migration; Ecological restoration; Evolutionary rescue; Facilitated adaptation; Genetic rescue; Outbreeding depression; Phenotypic plasticity; Reforestation; Seed transfer

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACILITATION; GENE FLOW; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SELECTION;

EID: 84877019091     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135747     Document Type: Review

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