Population Genetic and Morphological Diversity of Woody Plants
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics and Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 April 2023) | Viewed by 21821
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Interests: population genetics; molecular ecology; microsatellites; morphological variability; conservation genetics
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Dear Colleagues,
One of the fundamental questions of evolutionary biology is how basic evolutionary processes affect population diversity. In general, population diversity is the result of several evolutionary processes, including gene flow, mutations, genetic drift, and natural selection. These processes usually do not act individually but rather in combination and thus affect the recent diversity and structure of populations.
Generally speaking, the variability of a species reflects their adaptive evolutionary potential and enables them to better adapt to various environmental conditions and survival in unfavorable environments. Greater diversity makes a species more resilient and better adjusted for survival under changing conditions of stress, which is particularly evident with regard to climate change. Insights into the diversity of populations are one of the basic preconditions for the preservation of biological diversity of an area and of individual species and subspecies.
Over the last few decades, research quantifying population diversity has been intensifying, using various genetic and morphological methods. Genetics is a rapidly progressing area of biological sciences with increasing economic and ecologic relevance in forestry and biodiversity conservation over recent years. Although morphological methods were more utilized in the past, they are still often applied today in studies quantifying population diversity, especially in combination with genetic analyses.
The aim of this Special Issue of Forests is to cover research that includes the application of genetic and morphological analyses in forestry and related plant sciences and pertains to the population diversity of woody plants.
Dr. Igor Poljak
Prof. Dr. Marilena Idžojtić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- woody plants
- trees and shrubs
- population diversity
- population structure
- biodiversity
- genetic analysis
- morphometric analysis
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