Applying landscape genomic tools to forest management and restoration of Hawaiian koa (Acacia koa) in a changing environment.

ABSTRACT: Identifying and quantifying the importance of environmental variables in structuring population genetic variation can help inform management decisions for conservation, restoration, or reforestation purposes, in both current and future environmental conditions. Landscape genomics offers a powerful approach for understanding the environmental factors that currently associate with genetic variation, and given those associations, where populations may be most vulnerable under future environmental change. Here, we applied genotyping by sequencing to generate over 11,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms from 311 trees and then used nonlinear, multivariate environmental association methods to examine spatial genetic structure and its association with environmental variation in an ecologically and

SUBMITTER: Gugger PF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5775490 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature