Rapid climate change has the potential to alter the location of bioclimatic envelopes for a
significant portion of the world's flora. Plant species will respond variously via phenotypic …

Plant conservation genetics provides tools to guide conservation and restoration efforts,
measure and monitor success, and ultimately minimize extinction risk by conserving species …

Proper sourcing of seed for ecological restoration has never been straightforward, and it is
becoming even more challenging and complex as the climate changes. For decades …

Selecting the geographic origin—the provenance—of seed is a key decision in restoration.
The last decade has seen a vigorous debate on whether to use local or nonlocal seed. The …

Understanding how spatially variable selection shapes adaptation is an area of long-
standing interest in evolutionary ecology. Recent meta-analyses have quantified the extent …

Climate change is shifting the distribution of species, and may have a profound impact on
the ecology and evolution of species interactions. However, we know little about the impact …

This paper attempts to explain circumstances under which local may be or may not be best.
Natural selection may lead to local adaptation (LA), or it may be constrained by gene flow …

The selection of plant provenance for ecological restoration is an intensively debated topic.
Throughout this debate, arguments mostly focus on plant performance, but little attention is …

Although a major expectation of coevolutionary theory between plants and herbivores is the
occurrence of reciprocal local adaptation, this has remained almost untested. Thus, we …

Norway spruce (Picea abies) is a dominant conifer species of major economic importance in
northern Europe. Extensive breeding programs were established to improve phenotypic …