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SUBMITTER: Montwe D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5913219 | biostudies-other | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Montwé David D Isaac-Renton Miriam M Hamann Andreas A Spiecker Heinrich H
Nature communications 20180423 1
With lengthening growing seasons but increased temperature variability under climate change, frost damage to plants may remain a risk and could be exacerbated by poleward planting of warm-adapted seed sources. Here, we study cold adaptation of tree populations in a wide-ranging coniferous species in western North America to inform limits to seed transfer. Using tree-ring signatures of cold damage from common garden trials designed to study genetic population differentiation, we find opposing geo ...[more]