AUTHOR=Di Fabio Alessandro , Buttò Valentina , Chakraborty Debojyoti , O’Neill Gregory A. , Schueler Silvio , Kreyling Juergen TITLE=Climatic conditions at provenance origin influence growth stability to changes in climate in two major tree species JOURNAL=Frontiers in Forests and Global Change VOLUME=7 YEAR=2024 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/forests-and-global-change/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1422165 DOI=10.3389/ffgc.2024.1422165 ISSN=2624-893X ABSTRACT=
Climate change is expected to outpace the rate at which populations of forest trees can migrate. Hence, in forestry there is growing interest in intervention strategies such as assisted migration to mitigate climate change impacts. However, until now the primary focus when evaluating candidates for assisted migration has been mean or maximum performance. We explore phenotypic plasticity as a potentially new avenue to help maintain the viability of species and populations in the face of climate change. Capitalizing on large, multi-site international provenance trials of four economically and ecologically important forest tree species (