Cost effective monitoring to help preserve forest diversity
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 - 08:32
in Earth & Climate
Protecting genetic diversity is essential to ensuring that European forests have the flexibility to adapt to future environmental conditions and societal demands. A newly developed monitoring protocol designed to assess genetic diversity at the European scale – and fully applicable to different tree species – could bring significant benefits to forest administrations, forest managers and staff from forest research institutes across EU Member States.