Evolutionary responses are required for tree populations to be able to track climate change.
Results of 250 years of common garden experiments show that most forest trees have …

Populations are locally adapted when populations have the highest relative fitness at their
home sites, and lower fitness in other parts of the range. Results from the extensive …

Woody plant species store nonstructural carbohydrates (NSCs) for many functions. While
known to buffer against fluctuations in photosynthetic supply, such as at night, NSC stores …

Abstract The Forest ecosystem genomics Research: supporTing Transatlantic Cooperation
project (FoResTTraC, http://www. foresttrac. eu/) sponsored a workshop in August 2010 to …

Until now, Quaternary paleoecologists have regarded evolution as a slow process relative to
climate change, predicting that the primary biotic response to changing climate is not …

Adaptation to winter cold in temperate and boreal trees involves complex genetic,
physiological, and developmental processes. Genecological studies demonstrate the …

Climate change will alter natural selection on native plant populations. Little information is
available to predict how selection will change in the future and how populations will …

In plants with a wide distribution, phenological characters can be expected to vary clinally
along climatic gradients, whereas other characters important for adaptation to local biotic …

Phenological events, such as the initiation and the end of seasonal growth, are thought to be
under strong evolutionary control because of their influence on tree fitness. Although …

Responses to climate change will include changes in species composition, but adaptation
through genetic change may also be possible. The response to selection depends on the …