Low genetic diversity and high phenotypic plasticity for growth traits and growth-climate relationships in Pinus nigra Arnold, the European black pine
Journal: SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository
Year: 2025

Radial growth is a fitness-related adaptive trait in forest trees that is expected to vary among populations under variable habitat conditions. Common gardens are widely used for the investigation of genetic variability, genotype by environment interactions and phenotypic plasticity of fitness related traits and provide information on adaptation useful for breeding and plantation forestry. Pinus nigra J.F. Arnold (1785), the European black pine, is a forest tree species widely but patchily distr