Genetic options for adapting forests to climate change

Concerns over impacts of climate change on forest productivity and health, and questions about appropriate management responses, led to the formation of the Taskforce on Adapting Forests to Climate change. An accompanying article discussed silvicultural approaches to deal with climate change. This article discusses genetic options including management actions that could be taken to influence the natural or human selection of genotypes, movement of genotypes across the landscape and conservation of genetic diversity.