The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

C Violle, PB Reich, SW Pacala… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding, modeling, and predicting the impact of global change on ecosystem
functioning across biogeographical gradients can benefit from enhanced capacity to …

Time to get moving: assisted gene flow of forest trees

SN Aitken, JB Bemmels - Evolutionary applications, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Geographic variation in trees has been investigated since the mid‐18th century. Similar
patterns of clinal variation have been observed along latitudinal and elevational gradients in …

Regulating lignin content to obtain excellent bamboo-derived electromagnetic wave absorber with thermal stability

Z Lou, Q Wang, W Sun, J Liu, H Yan, H Han… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biochar decorated with inorganic magnetic materials has both conductivity and magnetism,
and has application prospects in many fields. Synthesis of magnetic biochar composites by …

Photoperiod‐and temperature‐mediated control of phenology in trees–a molecular perspective

RK Singh, T Svystun, B AlDahmash… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Trees growing in boreal and temperate regions synchronize their growth with seasonal
climatic changes in adaptive responses that are essential for their survival. These trees …

Inferring continuous and discrete population genetic structure across space

GS Bradburd, GM Coop, PL Ralph - Genetics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
An important step in the analysis of genetic data is to describe and categorize natural
variation. Individuals that live close together are, on average, more genetically similar than …

Population genomics of Populus trichocarpa identifies signatures of selection and adaptive trait associations

LM Evans, GT Slavov, E Rodgers-Melnick, J Martin… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Forest trees are dominant components of terrestrial ecosystems that have global ecological
and economic importance. Despite distributions that span wide environmental gradients …

UAV-based thermal imaging for high-throughput field phenotyping of black poplar response to drought

R Ludovisi, F Tauro, R Salvati, S Khoury… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Poplars are fast-growing, high-yielding forest tree species, whose cultivation as second-
generation biofuel crops is of increasing interest and can efficiently meet emission reduction …

Plant carbohydrate storage: intra‐and inter‐specific trade‐offs reveal a major life history trait

M Blumstein, A Sala, DJ Weston, NM Holbrook… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Trade‐offs among carbon sinks constrain how trees physiologically, ecologically, and
evolutionarily respond to their environments. These trade‐offs typically fall along a …

Genome‐wide association implicates numerous genes underlying ecological trait variation in natural populations of Populus trichocarpa

AD McKown, J Klápště, RD Guy, A Geraldes… - New …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In order to uncover the genetic basis of phenotypic trait variation, we used 448 unrelated
wild accessions of black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) from much of its range in western …

Tree rings provide a new class of phenotypes for genetic associations that foster insights into adaptation of conifers to climate change

JM Housset, S Nadeau, N Isabel, C Depardieu… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Local adaptation in tree species has been documented through a long history of common
garden experiments where functional traits (height, bud phenology) are used as proxies for …