Genomic analyses point to a low evolutionary potential of prospective source populations for assisted migration in a forest herb.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is increasingly impacting temperate forest ecosystems and many forest herbs might be unable to track the changing climate due to dispersal limitation. Forest herbs with a low adaptive capacity may therefore benefit from conservation strategies that mitigate dispersal limitation and evolutionary constraints, such as assisted migration. However, assisted migration strategies rarely consider evolutionary constraints of potential source populations that may jeopardize their success. In cases where climate adaptation is overshadowed by competing evolutionary processes, assisted migration is unlikely to support adaptation to future climates. Using a combination of population and landscape genomic analyses, we disentangled local adaptation drivers and quantified the adaptability an

SUBMITTER: Van Daele F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9679244 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature