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List of works by Sally N. Aitken

A closer look at novel climates: new methods and insights at continental to landscape scales.

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Adaptation and exogenous selection in a Picea glauca × Picea engelmannii hybrid zone: implications for forest management under climate change

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Adaptation of lodgepole pine and interior spruce to climate: implications for reforestation in a warming world

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Adaptation, migration or extirpation: climate change outcomes for tree populations

scientific article (publication date: February 2008)

Advances in ecological genomics in forest trees and applications to genetic resources conservation and breeding.

scientific article published on 20 December 2016

An ecogeographic framework for in situ conservation of forest trees in British Columbia

Assisted Gene Flow to Facilitate Local Adaptation to Climate Change

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Assisted migration poleward rather than upward in elevation minimizes frost risks in plantations

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Bioinformatically predicted deleterious mutations reveal complementation in the interior spruce hybrid complex

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

Comparative Gene Expression Analysis Reveals Mechanism of Pinus contorta Response to the Fungal Pathogen Dothistroma septosporum

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Conservation and divergence of gene expression plasticity following c. 140 million years of evolution in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and interior spruce (Picea glauca×Picea engelmannii).

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Conservation planning under climate change: accounting for adaptive potential and migration capacity in species distribution models

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Convergent local adaptation to climate in distantly related conifers

scientific article published in September 2016

Differential introgression reveals candidate genes for selection across a spruce (Picea sitchensis × P. glauca) hybrid zone.

scientific article published on 10 December 2012

Divergent selection and heterogeneous migration rates across the range of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) ⬇️

scientific article published on November 23, 2011

Diverging distribution of seedlings and mature trees reflects recent climate change in British Columbia

scientific article published in 2018

EVOLUTION OF THE PYGMY-FOREST EDAPHIC SUBSPECIES OF PINUS CONTORT A ACROSS AN ECOLOGICAL STAIRCASE.

scientific article published on August 1994

Ecological genetics and seed transfer guidelines for Pinus albicaulis (Pinaceae) ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2008

Effective population size remains a suitable, pragmatic indicator of genetic diversity for all species, including forest trees

article by Sean Hoban et al published January 2021 in Biological Conservation

Effects of inbreeding on coastal Douglas fir growth and yield in operational plantations: a model-based approach

scientific article published on 05 December 2003

Evaluating genomic data for management of local adaptation in a changing climate: A lodgepole pine case study

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Evolutionary and plastic responses to climate change in terrestrial plant populations

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Exploring Approximate Bayesian Computation for inferring recent demographic history with genomic markers in non-model species.

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Expression Divergence Is Correlated with Sequence Evolution but Not Positive Selection in Conifers

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Forest genomics: Advancing climate adaptation, forest health, productivity, and conservation

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Genetic and morphological structure of a spruce hybrid (Picea sitchensis x P. glauca) zone along a climatic gradient

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Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved

scientific article published in August 2020

Genome-wide admixture and ecological niche modelling reveal the maintenance of species boundaries despite long history of interspecific gene flow

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Genome-wide shifts in climate-related variation underpin responses to selective breeding in a widespread conifer

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Genomic and phenotypic architecture of a spruce hybrid zone (Picea sitchensis × P. glauca).

scientific article published on 12 September 2012

Global monitoring of autumn gene expression within and among phenotypically divergent populations of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis).

scientific article published on 10 January 2008

Growth gains from selective breeding in a spruce hybrid zone do not compromise local adaptation to climate

scientific article published on 3 September 2017

Guidelines for planning genomic assessment and monitoring of locally adaptive variation to inform species conservation

scientific article published on 02 December 2017

Haploid, diploid, and pooled exome capture recapitulate features of biology and paralogy in two non‐model tree species

scientific article published in 2021

Increased selfing and decreased effective pollen donor number in peripheral relative to central populations in Picea sitchensis (Pinaceae) ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2007

Integrating environmental and genetic effects to predict responses of tree populations to climate

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Long-distance pollen dispersal during recent colonization favors a rapid but partial recovery of genetic diversity in Picea sitchensis

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

Low genetic diversity, moderate local adaptation, and phylogeographic insights in Cornus nuttallii (Cornaceae).

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Metabolic dynamics during autumn cold acclimation within and among populations of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis)

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Modeling lodgepole pine radial growth relative to climate and genetics using universal growth-trend response functions ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

Modularity of genes involved in local adaptation to climate despite physical linkage

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Potential for evolutionary responses to climate change - evidence from tree populations

scientific article (publication date: June 2013)

Predicting adaptive phenotypes from multilocus genotypes in Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) using random forest

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Somatic mutations substantially increase the per-generation mutation rate in the conifer Picea sitchensis

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Stimulating a Canadian narrative for climate

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Strong spatial genetic structure in peripheral but not core populations of Sitka spruce [Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.].

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

The challenge of separating signatures of local adaptation from those of isolation by distance and colonization history: The case of two white pines

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Time to get moving: assisted gene flow of forest trees

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Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) assisted migration potential: testing establishment north of the species range ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Widespread, ecologically relevant genetic markers developed from association mapping of climate-related traits in Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis).

scientific article published on 21 July 2010

Wildcards in climate change biology

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