The paper tests passive and active restoration strategies in oil palm landscapes, showing that planted tree diversity enhances natural regeneration and multifaceted diversity recovery.

bioRxiv · Dec 4, 2023Ecology

Scots pine - panmixia and the elusive signal of genetic adaptation

J. Bruxaux, W. Zhao, D. Hall, A. L. Curtu, P. Androsiuk, A. D. Drouzas, O. Gailing, H. Konrad, A. R. Sullivan, V. Semerikov, X.-R. Wang

This study analyzes genetic diversity and adaptation in Scots pine across Eurasia, finding high genetic uniformity and limited signals of adaptation.

bioRxiv · Jun 9, 2023Evolutionary Biology

Differentiation and admixture of Fagus sylvatica L. and Fagus orientalis Lipsky in a northern German forest -- learning from pioneer forest work

K. B. Budde, S. Hötzel, M. Müller, N. Samsonidze, A. C. Papageorgiou, O. Gailing

The paper studies gene flow and admixture between Fagus sylvatica and Fagus orientalis in a German forest using molecular markers to determine the origin and direction of genetic exchange.

bioRxiv · Dec 6, 2022Plant Biology

Genomic landscape of the global oak phylogeny

A. L. Hipp, P. S. Manos, M. Hahn, M. Avishai, C. Bodenes, J. Cavender-Bares, A. Crowl, M. Deng, T. Denk, S. Fitz-Gibbon, O. Gailing, M. S. Gonzalez-Elizondo, A. Gonzalez-RodrIguez, G. W. Grimm, X. Jiang, , S. Valencia-Avalos

This study investigates oak genome diversity and phylogeny using RAD-seq data, finding that oak diversity is shaped by gene flow and genomic mosaicism.

bioRxiv · Mar 24, 2019Evolutionary Biology