Local Adaptation in European Firs Assessed through Extensive Sampling across Altitudinal Gradients in Southern Europe.

BACKGROUND:Local adaptation is a key driver of phenotypic and genetic divergence at loci responsible for adaptive traits variations in forest tree populations. Its experimental assessment requires rigorous sampling strategies such as those involving population pairs replicated across broad spatial s...

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Main Authors: Louise Brousseau, Dragos Postolache, Martin Lascoux, Andreas D Drouzas, Thomas Källman, Cristina Leonarduzzi, Sascha Liepelt, Andrea Piotti, Flaviu Popescu, Anna M Roschanski, Peter Zhelev, Bruno Fady, Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4938419?pdf=render