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Massive effort to document the genetics of European forests bears fruit
Faced with deforestation, climate change, invasive pests, and new diseases, many trees are in trouble.
Foresters and conservationists are scrambling to save them, but can’t protect every stand of woods. And prioritizing which places—and even which individual trees—warrant preservation has been a challenge.
For example, “You want a lot of genetic diversity in a conservation area. … The higher the diversity, the more the chances that the population will survive,” says F. A. (Phil) Aravanopoulos, a forest geneticist at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
But robust data on the genetic diversity of trees can be scarce.
Now, a 4-year, $7.7 million effort to document the genetic diversity of forests in Europe is helping fill that gap.
In a project dubbed GenTree, researchers from 14 countries measured, cored, and took DNA samples from 12 important tree species across Europe.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/massive-effort-document-genetics-european-forests-bears-fruit

GenTree : http://www.gentree-h2020.eu/

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France Bleu Vaucluse, 28 janvier 2020
Bruno Fady coordinateur de la conférence internationale sur la forêt
https://www.francebleu.fr/emissions/invite-de-france-bleu-vaucluse-matin/vaucluse/bruno-fady-coordinateur-de-la-conference-internationale-sur-la-foret

Scientific Conference - Genetics to the rescue: managing forests sustainably in a changing world
January 27 - 31, 2020 - University of Avignon, Avignon, France
Genetics for sustainable forest management
https://colloque.inrae.fr/confgentree2020/

The conservation and sustainable use of forests is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century, in a context of environmental change of uncertain magnitude and scale. Society demands that forests provide a wide range of potentially conflicting ecosystem services, from timber products, raw materials and renewable energy, to climate change mitigation and sociocultural amenities and habitats for nature conservation.

Genetic diversity is a key component of resilience and adaptability. Overall, forest tree populations are genetically very diverse, conferring them an enormous potential for genetic adaptation via such processes as gene flow and natural selection. What remain largely unknown are the scale and pace at which local adaptation occurs in forest trees and whether adaptation and resilience for some traits conflicts with adaptation and resilience for others. Without this basic knowledge, innovative and science-based management and policy approaches will lag behind the pace of environmental and societal constraints.

Access to large scale genomic, phenotypic, environmental and policy data have the potential of opening new dimensions in how adaptation and resilience is studied. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on forest trees, the conference will showcase some of the key results made during the past few years in the field of evolutionary sciences that can inform sustainable forest management and policy.

The event will take place at the University of Avignon, France, January 27-31, 2020. The scientific conference will welcome a maximum of 250 participants while the training and the stakeholder sessions held back to back with the conference will welcome no more than 80 participants each and the Wikipedia traning session no more than 25 participants.

The conference is organized by the H2020 project GenTree.

The conference is Carbon Neutral.

Merci à tous les collègues INRAE URFM et UEFM pour le bon déroulement du colloque !