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Genetics and adaptation to climate change:A case study of trees

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Most species are ephemeral features of the Earth system — an average species exists for about 10 million years (Vitousek 1992). Forest trees, especially evolutionarily ancient conifers, certainly belong to the longer lasting class of species. Trees have not only successfully survived changing geological periods as species, but also endure during an individual’s lifetime considerable fluctuations of environment without the chance of migration or short-term genetic adaptation on the population level as in case of annual plants and many animals.

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  1. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Sopron, P.O.B. 132, H-9401, Sopron, Hungary

    Csaba Mátyás

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  1. Environmental Research Centre, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK

    Brian Huntley  & Judy R. M. Allen  & 

  2. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, P.O. Box 6012 03, D-14412, Potsdam, Germany

    Wolfgang Cramer

  3. Quaternary Sciences Institute, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Alan V. Morgan

  4. Department of Systematic Botany, Lund University, Östra Vallgatan 18-20, S-223 61, Lund, Sweden

    Honor C. Prentice

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Mátyás, C. (1997). Genetics and adaptation to climate change:A case study of trees. In: Huntley, B., Cramer, W., Morgan, A.V., Prentice, H.C., Allen, J.R.M. (eds) Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes. NATO ASI Series, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60599-4_27

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