ArticleNature communications2021
Annual aboveground carbon uptake enhancements from assisted gene flow in boreal black spruce forests are not long-lasting.
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- Assisted Gene Flow Yields Physiologically RobustEvolutionary applications · 2026Article
- Selection for fewer, water- and carbon-conservative needles in black spruce trees under warm, dry climates.Annals of botany · 2026Article
- Breeding for climate adaptation: genetic variation and genomic selection for drought response in Scots pine.BMC genomics · 2026Article
- Characterizing genetic adaptations and plastic stress responses within a transcontinental North American keystone species.Tree physiology · 2025Article
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- Increasing atmospheric dryness reduces boreal forest tree growth.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Variability in frost occurrence under climate change and consequent risk of damage to trees of western Quebec, Canada.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Cold-season freeze frequency is a pervasive driver of subcontinental forest growth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Adding Tree Rings to North America's National Forest Inventories: An Essential Tool to Guide Drawdown of Atmospheric CO2.Bioscience · 2022Article
- Finding common ground: Toward comparable indicators of adaptive capacity of tree species to a changing climate.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Connecting tree-ring phenotypes, genetic associations and transcriptomics to decipher the genomic architecture of drought adaptation in a widespread conifer.Molecular ecology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Assisted gene flow between populations has been proposed as an adaptive forest management strategy that could contribute to the sequestration of carbon. Here we provide an assessment of the mitigation potential of assisted gene flow in 46 populations of the widespread boreal conifer Picea mariana, grown in two 42-year-old common garden experiments and established in contrasting Canadian boreal regions. We use a dendroecological approach taking into account phylogeographic structure to retrospectively analyse population phenotypic variability in annual aboveground net primary productivity (NPP). We compare population NPP phenotypes to detect signals of adaptive variation and/or the presence of phenotypic clines across tree lifespans, and assess genotype-by-environment interactions by evaluating climate and NPP relationships. Our results show a positive effect of assisted gene flow for a period of approximately 15 years following planting, after which there was little to no effect. Although not long lasting, well-informed assisted gene flow could accelerate the transition from carbon source to carbon sink after disturbance.
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