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EVOLUTION OF TREES AS DRIVERS OF TERRESTRIAL BIODIVERSITY |
IS A LARGE EU-FUNDED NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE LAUNCHED IN APRIL 2006 TO
ANALYZE THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON FOREST ECOSYSTEMS FROM AN
EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE.
A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE EVOLUTIONARY
history of forest trees can help us to predict how they might respond
to climate change. Forests are complex ecosystems and subsequently
forest research needs to apply different approaches to gain a better
understanding of how they function. The European forest research
community has carried out numerous important studies on forest
biodiversity. However, many institutes maintain overlapping research
infrastructures and often carry out similare studies without
coordination.
EVOLTREE WILL LAST FOUR YEARS and will create a Network of
Excellence to integrate European research infrastructures and resources
to study the adaptive capacity of tree species using sophisticated
methods, and to engage the scientific community into a dialogue with
policy-makers and other stakeholders.
The EVOLTREE Network involves 25 research groups from 15 European
countries that are working together to identify and study genes of
adaptive significance in order to evaluate the contribution they make
to the evolution of tree species and tree communities.
EVOLTREE ACTIVITIES
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| INTEGRATION |
RESEARCH |
DISSEMINATION |
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VIRTUAL LABORATORY
RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
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ADAPTIVE DIVERSITY
INTERSPECIFIC AND
ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES |
TRAINING
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
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MAIN IMPACTS
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HARMONIZATION
SYNERGY
EXCELLENCE REINFORCED
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NEW DISCIPLINE:
ECOSYSTEMS GENOMIC
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SPREADING EXCELLENCE
COMPETITIVENESS
EU POLICIES AND REGULATIONS
COOPERATION
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Get an impression of the EVOLTREE project by having a look at the official project leaflet and poster.
Evoltree Leaflet
Evoltree Poster
or viewing the project slide show.
Slide Show
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News |
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Second External EVOLTREE Newsletter |
The Second External EVOLTREE Newsletter can be downloaded here.
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Leaf Samples for Repository Centre |
Guidelines for leaf material transfer have been developed and can be found at the Evoltree portal ( click here).
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