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    While foresters have historically bred trees within their stands to optimise wood quality and tree growth, technological developments in the field of forest genetics allow practitioners and researchers to be more effective in improving tree qualities, and make new uses possible, including using genetic markers to track wood sources.

    Release of elite stone pine clones for orchard plantations

    Sven Mutke -
    Different grafting techniques and deployment strategies for improved genetic materials of stone pine, Pinus pinea, offer more landowners the possibility to consider the tree...

    Crop, forest and animal genetic resource networks join forces

    EUFORGEN -
    A new project, called GenRes Bridge, kicked off in Jan 2019. It aims to strengthen the conservation and sustainable use of genetic...

    EVOLTREE funding opportunity

    EFIMED -
    EVOLTREE are offering funding of up to €10,000 for two projects related to genetic and genomic studies on forest ecosystems. Apply here

    “Wood first” takes a back seat in Sardinia

    EFIMED -
    A scientific seminar at the Annual Conference of the European Forest Institute in Alghero (Sardinia, Italy) heard about the importance of generating forestry investments...

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    Tree mortality submodels drive simulated long‐term forest dynamics

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    Models are pivotal for assessing future forest dynamics under the impacts of changing climate and management practices, incorporating representations of tree growth,...

    Proceedings of the 4th European Agroforestry Conference

    Ecological models for evaluating the future of nature values and ecosystem...

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