Rethinking common gardens for forest tree species in the face of climate change
Abstract Key message Maintaining forest resilience under climate change depends on understanding genetic adaptation and preserving diversity. Long-term common garden networks are essential for revealing how species and populations perform across life stages and environments. When strategically designed and deployed across diverse sites, including suboptimal ones, these networks provide critical empirical insights into adaptive capacity of forest tree species under future climate conditions.
Authors
- S. GonzÁlez-MartÍnez
- José Climent (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0815-2645)
- Georgeta Mihai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3751-8412)
- Ricardo Alı́a (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9426-0967)
- Marjana Westergren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4204-0161)
- Kathrin Streit (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-503X)
- Tor Myking
- Marcela van Loo
- Marta Benito Garzon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3436-123X)
- Francisco J. Lario Leza
Institutions
- Université de Bordeaux (FR)
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (CH)
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Drăcea" (RO)
- Slovenian Forestry Institute (SI)
- Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (ES)
- UMR BIOdiversity, GEnes & Communities (FR)
- Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NO)
- MeaningCloud (Spain) (ES)
- Austrian Research Centre for Forests (AT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of Forest Science
- Published
- 2026-09-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-026-01357-3
- Primary Topic
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Commission
- Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS
- HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme