Quantifying safe seed transfer distance and impacts of tree breeding on adaptation

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 328, Issue , 2014, Pages 122-130

  O'Neill, Gregory A ^a   Stoehr, Michael ^a   Jaquish, Barry ^a  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Euclidean distance; Maladaptation; Provenance test; Seed zones; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; MALADAPTATION; PROVENANCE TESTS; SEED ZONES;

FORESTRY;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST HEALTH; GROWTH MODELING; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PROVENANCE; TRANSFER FUNCTION; TREE;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY; SEEDS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84902271831     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.05.039     Document Type: Article

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