Adaptive Potential and Genomic Vulnerability of Keystone Forest Tree Species to Climate Change: A Case Study in Scots Pine.

ABSTRACT: A better understanding of the possible adaptive response and genomic vulnerability of forest trees is needed to properly assist future forest management and develop adequate resilience strategies to changing environments. Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), a keystone species with extensive distribution and a broad ecological niche, is expected to be directly impacted by climate change due to maladaptation and associated fitness declines. Despite extensive studies that have clarified the broad-scale history and genetic structure of the species, understanding the genetic basis for local adaptation and the extent of genomic offset in Scots pine remains incomplete. Here, we used thousands of genotyped SNP markers in 39 natural populations (440 trees) along a broad latitudinal gradient of

SUBMITTER: Labiszak B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12680428 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature