Genetic effects of forest management practices: Global synthesis and perspectives
By W. Ratnam, O. Rajora, R. Finkeldey, Filippos A. Aravanopoulos, Jean-Marc Bouvet, R. Vaillancourt, M. Kanashiro, Bruno Fady, Motoshi Tomita, C. Vinson. 2014
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Understanding the genetic impacts of forest management practices is crucial for conservation and management of forest genetic resources. Forest management practices based on selective and clear cut systems followed by natural or artificial regeneration can impact population structure and mating patterns, thus gene flow and genetic diversity. Survival and productivity of both tree and non-tree species can be compromised or, possibly, enhanced. The extent of genetic impacts depend on the management system applied, stand structure as well as species’ distribution, demography, biological attributes and ecology. The impact of management practices is reviewed and synthesized for temperate, boreal and tropical forests based on experimental and simulation studies. In addition, the effects of genetically improved planting materials and establishment of large scale plantations on natural forests are examined. Recommendations are made for genetically sustainable forest management practices.
Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Global and Planetary Change
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- Utilization and transfer of forest genetic resources: A global review (2014, background): “…studies with molecular markers have also been essential to better understand ecological and genetic processes within tree populations (e.g., Lee et al., 2006), and the impacts of forest fragmentation and logging on them (e.g., Rymer et al., 2013; Wickneswari et al., 2014, this special issue).”
- Landscape Genomics: Understanding Relationships Between Environmental Heterogeneity and Genomic Characteristics of Populations (2017, background): “scapes can become disconnected and fragmented, leading to concerns about the preservation of genetic diversity and adaptive capacity (Krutovsky et al. 2012; Ratnam et al. 2014).”
- Banking on the future: progress, challenges and opportunities for the genetic conservation of forest trees (2017, background): “…a smaller scale, silvicultural and other management practices should take the population size, reproductive biology, and growth rate of a species into account to ensure that genetic diversity and evolutionary processes are maintained in forest populations (Ratnam et al. 2014; Schaberg et al. 2008).”