Putting the landscape into the genomics of trees: Approaches for understanding local adaptation and population responses to changing climate

Tree Genetics and Genomes

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 901-911

  Sork, V L ^a   Aitken, S N ^b   Dyer, R J ^c   Eckert, A J ^c   Legendre, P ^d   Neale, D B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Centre for Forest Conservation Genetics Department of Forest Sciences   (Canada)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive genetic variation; Climate change; Environmental association; Forest genetics; Genomics; Landscape genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880141022     PISSN: 16142942     EISSN: 16142950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11295-013-0596-x     Document Type: Article

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