Landscape Variation in Adaptation and Implications for Managing Future Climates
Brad St. Clair, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR
Knowledge of landscape variation in adaption and adaptive traits is
important for guiding decisions of population movement for purposes of
assist¬ed migration. Scientists study adaptation through gynecology
studies which consider correlations between population variation in
traits and the environments of source locations where they evolved, or
through reciprocal transplant studies which compare responses of
different populations from a range of source environments grown in the
same or similar range of environments. Results from gynecology and
reciprocal transplant studies of Douglas-fir are presented. Management
options for responding to climate change are considered.
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