A5088667581- Forest ecology and management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation
- Odor and Emission Control Technologies
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón
2015-2025
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
1992-2020
Gobierno de Aragón
2001-2017
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia
2016
University of Oulu
2007
Ghent University
2005
Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
2005
Abstract The dataset presented here was collected by the GenTree project (EU-Horizon 2020), which aims to improve use of forest genetic resources across Europe better understanding how trees adapt their local environment. This individual tree-core characteristics including ring-width series and whole-core wood density for seven ecologically economically important European tree species: silver birch ( Betula pendula ), beech Fagus sylvatica Norway spruce Picea abies black poplar Populus nigra...
Abstract Dynamic conservation of forest genetic resources (FGR) means maintaining the diversity trees within an evolutionary process and allowing generation turnover in forest. We assessed network forests areas managed for dynamic FGR (conservation units) across Europe (33 countries). On basis information available European Information System on (EUFGIS Portal), species distribution maps, environmental stratification continent, we developed ecogeographic indicators, a marginality index,...
We studied the intraspecific variability of maritime pine in a set morphological and physiological traits: soil-to-leaf hydraulic conductance, intrinsic water-use efficiency (WUE, estimated by carbon isotope composition, δ13C), root morphology, xylem anatomy, growth allocation patterns. The data were collected from Pinus pinaster Aiton seedlings (25 half-sib families five populations) grown greenhouse subjected to water water-stress treatments. aims relate this differences availability at...
Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris L.) has the widest distribution of species and populations are locally adapted to very different environmental conditions. Adaptive traits such as those related growth optimal for understanding adaptation local conditions in widely distributed forest species. A study timing during first growing period families four from latitudinal limits range was conducted. Individual curves were fitted, a set variables rhythm budset obtained genetic analyses. Pooled...
Carbon isotope composition (δ 13 C) is a complex trait involved in acclimation, adaptive processes and related to water use efficiency (WUE) and/or productivity.• To estimate the genetic variation δ C growth (h), their relationship, genotype by environment interaction effect both variables, we analyzed three Pinus pinaster populations six ten families per population, two experimental trial sites consecutive years.• increased drier site (from -27.15 ± 0.18 -24.53 0.22) was more affected (62%...
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Serotiny, the maintenance of ripe seeds in closed fruits or cones until fire causes dehiscence, is a key adaptive trait plants fire‐prone ecosystems, but knowledge phenotypic plasticity for cone retention woody extremely scarce. On basis published literature and our field observations, we hypothesized that increased aridity might decrease aerial seed bank as plastic response, not necessarily adaptive. METHODS: We used Pinus halepensis common garden replicated three...
<ja:p>Plants obtained from seed of 16 Spanish and 6 German provenances Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) were installed at five trial sites distributed throughout the natural range species in Spain. Five years after planting (7 age) experimental material was measured for total height, diameter, number twigs fourth year whorl survival. The analysis confirmed that rate height growth is lower than provenances, whereas other traits best compare favourably with Germans. Provenance by site...
Life histories in Mediterranean pines are well known to be closely related different fire and disturbance regimes. Variation these factors is also reflected reproductive strategies at the specific intraspecific level. Specifically, onset of reproduction a crucial stage for any organism because it has profound implications on fitness. In this paper we focused variation plasticity threshold size allocation two pines, assessed reproduction, when trade-offs between growth expected greater....
As part of a program to select maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) genotypes for resistance low winter temperatures, we examined variation in photosystem II activity by chlorophyll fluorescence. Populations and families within populations from contrasting climates were tested during two consecutive winters through progeny trials, one located at continental xeric site mesic with Atlantic influence. We also obtained the LT50, or temperature that causes 50% damage, controlled freezing...
Abstract Riparian vegetation supports high biodiversity providing many services and is, therefore, an important landscape element. ecosystems are subject to numerous pressures leading population decline genetic erosion of riparian plants. This may have cascading effects at various ecosystem levels, including decreasing services, so identifying the current status diversity tree species is vital improve effectiveness restoration efforts. We aimed elicit expert views on importance species,...
Understanding how woody plants cope with severe water shortages is critical, espe-cially for regions where droughts are becoming more frequent and intense. We studied the effects of drought intensity, focusing on post-drought resprouting, autumn leaf se-nescence subsequent spring bud burst. Furthermore, we aimed to study popu-lation differentiation in responses. performed a summer dry-out experiment common garden potted Prunus spinosa L. (Rosaceae) saplings. looked at responses different...
Understanding how woody plants cope with severe water shortages is critical, especially for regions where droughts are becoming more frequent and intense. We studied the effects of drought intensity, focusing on post-drought resprouting, autumn leaf senescence subsequent spring bud burst. Furthermore, we aimed to study population differentiation in responses. performed a summer dry-out experiment common garden potted Prunus spinosa L. (Rosaceae) saplings. analysed responses across different...
Background: Understanding the mechanisms by which woody perennials adapt to extreme water deficits is important in regions experiencing increasingly frequent and intense droughts. Methods: We investigated effects of drought severity shrubs Corylus avellana L., C. maxima Mill., their morphological intermediate forms, all from local Belgian origin, a Spanish-Pyrenean origin. Potted saplings common garden were not receiving any for duration 30 days July 2021 developed range visual stress...
A central question for understanding the evolutionary responses of plant species to rapidly changing environments is assessment their potential short-term (in one or a few generations) genetic change. In our study, we consider case Pinus pinaster Aiton (maritime pine), widespread Mediterranean tree, and (i) test, under different experimental conditions (growth chamber semi-natural), whether higher recruitment in wild from most successful mothers due better performance offspring; (ii)...
Abstract Motivation Trait variation within species can reveal plastic and/or genetic responses to environmental gradients, and may indicate where local adaptation has occurred. Here, we present a dataset of rangewide in leaf traits from seven the most ecologically economically important tree Europe. Sample collection trait assessment are embedded GenTree project (EU‐Horizon 2020), which aims at characterizing phenotypic variability forest optimize management sustainable use resources. Our...
Summary Understanding the dynamics of selection is key to predicting response tree species new environmental conditions in current context climate change. However, patterns acting on early recruitment stages and their climatic drivers remain largely unknown most species, despite being a critical period life cycle. We measured phenotypic Pinus sylvestris seed mass, emergence time growth rate over 2 yr four common garden experiments established along latitudinal gradient Europe. Significant...
New mutations provide the raw material for evolution and adaptation. The distribution of fitness effects (DFE) describes spectrum new that can occur along a genome, is, therefore, vital interest in evolutionary biology. Recent work has uncovered striking similarities DFE between closely related species, prompting us to ask whether there is variation among populations same or species with different degrees divergence, at levels evolution. Using exome capture data from six tree sampled across...