Exchanging Genes Within a City: Analysis of Pollen Flow Patterns in a Narrow Endemic Plant Species Threatened by Urbanisation Ecol&Evol

Exchanging Genes Within a City: Analysis of Pollen Flow Patterns in a Narrow Endemic Plant Species Threatened by Urbanisation

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 4, April 2026.

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New roots for future forests 🌳 The OptFORESTS common garden in southern France brings together oaks and pines from across Europe to study climate adaptation...despite rain, rocks and tortoises! Find out more 👇 #ForestScience #HorizonEU #INRAE #ClimateAction www.optforests.eu/news-and-med...

Planting the OptFORESTS Mediterranean common garden in southern France

Bruno Fady and Carine Dublineau (INRAE URFM, Avignon) describe their adventures in planting seedlings for a provenance test in southern France's Maures Mountains.

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Exchanging Genes Within a City: Analysis of Pollen Flow Patterns in a Narrow Endemic Plant Species Threatened by Urbanisation - Delnevo - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Exchanging Genes Within a City: Analysis of Pollen Flow Patterns in a Narrow Endemic Plant Species Threatened by Urbanisation

Anthropogenic habitat fragmentation can severely disrupt gene flow in endemic plants that depend on species-specific native pollinators with limited dispersal ability. Using paternity analysis across...

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Still one of my most-viewed posts: pseudoreplication in ecology and how to avoid it.... open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Pseudoreplication in ecological research, and how to avoid it

Let's eradicate pseudoreplication - a rant! :)

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A nice recap 20 yrs after Hampe & Petit: Revisiting evolution at the rear edge: Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Revisiting evolution at the rear edge

Rear-edge populations occur at species’ warmer range limits, with many still occupying glacial refugia. They offer insights into evolution under changing climates, yet they are underused as models. We...

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Demographic history shapes forest tree vulnerability to climate change https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.10.710859v1

🧬New genotyping tools for European forest trees🌲genomic data of 7220 trees from 301 GCUs of 23 species🌳over 1.8 million SNPs discovered covering ⁓50 Mb of DNA sequence!!!!! You can find all this (and much more) in the latest @forgenius-eu.bsky.social paper just published in @molecology.bsky.social!

Hello! Molecular Ecology is now on @bsky.app! Follow us for updates about Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources publications, as well as special issues, events, and awards! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1365...

Molecular Ecology

Molecular Ecology is an international journal for research using molecular genetic techniques to address questions in ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation.

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Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).

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Biodiversity conservation for climate adaptive forest restoration and reforestation

In almost all European forests, land use history is deeply embedded with a variety of effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Forest biodiv…

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Marija Kravanja, one of the PhD students supported by an #EVOLTREE grant to attend the conference, presented an original study using FORGENIUS data on the correlation between genetic diversity and resilience, as estimated by restoration rates obtained from satellite data.

Final words from Delphine and Beppe, and the Joint EVOLTREE-FORGENIUS Conference is closed. It was great fun to discuss science with all you! Enjoy your weekend! And don't miss the next #EVOLTREE Conference in 2027 (venue to be announced soon)!

The EVOLTREE-FORGENIUS Joint Conference starts tomorrow in Madrid, so much excitement in the air! It is already our 3rd Conference and we continue growing. Thanks for supporting #EVOLTREE

Delphine Grivet from the host organisation INIA-CSIC opens the Joint EVOLTREE- FORGENIUS Conference in Madrid! About 200 researchers, including many early-career scientists in the room.

David O'Brien opens the first session ("New Tools for Science to Reach Practice") of the Joint EVOLTREE-FORGENIUS conference with an entertaining talk on how to communicate to politicians, practitioners and the public.

Christian Rellstab (WSL, Switzerland) presented how hybridisation and admixture enhance drought tolerance in oaks. This work was supported by an #EVOLTREE Opportunity grant, a program that provides niche funding for research in forest genetics and genomics. www.evoltree.eu/funding-init...

Second Day starts with an amazing keynote talk on genetic adaptation and phenotypic plasticity by Silvia Matesanz from URJC. Great talk Silvia! #EVOLTREE

Santiago González-Martínez from @inrae-france.bsky.social, our own #EVOLTREE coordinator, gave a talk on the connections between genetic diversity, historical demography, and rates of adaptive evolution in 4 species of conifers. He also cautioned on the applicability of genomic forecasting methods.

A creative way of taking notes at the EVOLTREE-FORGENIUS conference. Mona Schreiber‘s graphical summary of David O‘Brien‘s keynote from yesterday.

Visit to one of the Spanish National Breeding Centres. Spain has 327 Genetic Conservation Units (GCUs) involving 20 main tree species, 228 of which have been genetically characterised! #EVOLTREE

We had a magical night at the #EVOLTREE conference dinner, with live folk music, excellent food, and a warm tribute to Beppe Vendramin, a very dear member of our community ❤️

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Genomic Signatures of Climate‐Driven (Mal)Adaptation in an Iconic Conifer, the English Yew (Taxus baccata L.) - Francisco - 2025 - Evolutionary Applications - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Taxusbaccata #CNR_IBBR #forestgenetics

exciting times ahead. the permanent exhibition "breaking the code" about genetic research at @wslresearch.bsky.social is opening soon! with apprentices from ETH, we developed a computer game to assign white oak species (and their hybrids) based on leaf morphology and genetic markers. stay tuned!

🌲🌱🧬 Climate #resilience begins at the #genetic level, but Forest Genetic Resources (FGR) are often overlooked! Dive into this #FORGENIUS policy brief to discover what tools can help us strengthen FGR conservation for #ClimateResilience ➡️ www.forgenius.eu/fileadmin/We... @colombewarin.bsky.social

🌱 The latest #FORGENIUS update is not just a seedling, it is growing into something quite promising! 🌲🧬👀 Explore the new genotyping tools and genomic data for 23 #forest tree species and their Genetic Conservation Units developed by our researchers ⬇️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The FORGENIUS genomic resources: new genotyping tools and genomic data for 23 forest tree species and their Genetic Conservation Units

Genetic diversity is a critical but often overlooked component of biological diversity. The European H2020 FORGENIUS project is precisely aimed at increasing the quality and quantity of genetic data t...

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🌳Since the 2000s, #EUFORGEN’s guidelines for 50 tree species have helped preserve forest genetic diversity 🌱 A milestone from 30 years of collaboration across #Europe! 👉 Explore the guidelines: www.euforgen.org/publications... 🎥 Dive into EUFORGEN's 30-year journey: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqVB...

Read about the newly published inventory of 496 species and 147 subspecies of trees in the Mediterranean region. The open access data includes details on species extinction risk & genetic diversity - vital for forest conservation + restoration. @magdaboudagher.bsky.social efi.int/news/largest...

Largest database on Mediterranean trees available through open access

PRESS RELEASE - An international network of 30 scientists, coordinated by INRAE and the European Forest Institute (EFI) and involving Aix-Marseille Université, the University of Montpellier, the Frenc...

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The FORGENIUS genomic resources: new genotyping tools and genomic data for 23 forest tree species and their Genetic Conservation Units https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.08.669074v1