Blending traditional knowledge and Western science to strategise the battle against climate change
Tag - conservation genetics
Lorena Villanueva-Almanza
Reconsidering the conservation of an endangered tree in Brazil: one species or a hybrid?
Have you ever gone for a walk and noticed that the landscape has changed? Changes in plant species are easy to spot between, for example, a meadow and a forest. The transition area of biomes is called an ecotone which...
Juniper Kiss
Conservation genetics and niche shift estimates of the endemic and vulnerable Viola cheiranthifolia
Alpine oceanic ecosystems are considered amongst the most ephemeral and restricted habitats, with a biota highly vulnerable to climate changes and disturbances. As an example of an alpine insular endemic, Rodríguez...
Alex Assiry
Pollen-mediated gene flow in wild olive
Wild olive (Olea europaea subsp. europaea var. sylvestris, aka oleaster) populations are subject to increasing fragmentation and size reduction. Beghè et al. employ microsatellite markers and apply paternity analysis to...
botanyone
Plant conservation genetics in an Arctic archipelago
Small and peripheral populations often contain low levels of genetic variation. This may limit their ability to adapt to environmental change, including climate warming. In a recent study published in AoB PLANTS...
AoBPLANTS
Genetic structure and gene flow patterns in Ulmus
Bertolasi et al. investigate pollen dispersal patterns in a relic U. minor stand surrounded by U. minor and U. pumila trees scattered across 80 km2.
