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Climate change and tree responses in Central European forests

Wohlgemuth, T.

In: Annals of Forest Science, 2015, vol. 72, no. 3, p. 285-287

Université de Fribourg

Estimating and accounting for genotyping errors in RAD-seq experiments

Bresadola, Luisa ; Link, Vivian ; Buerkle, C. Alex ; Lexer, Christian ; Wegmann, Daniel

In: Molecular Ecology Resources, 2020, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 856–870

In non-model organisms, evolutionary questions are frequently addressed using reduced representation sequencing techniques due to their low cost, ease of use, and because they do not require genomic resources such as a reference genome. However, evidence is accumulating that such techniques may be affected by specific biases, questioning the accuracy of obtained genotypes, and as a...

Université de Fribourg

Assessing the potential of soil moisture measurements for regional landslide early warning

Wicki, Adrian ; Lehmann, Peter ; Hauck, Christian ; Seneviratne, Sonia I. ; Waldner, Peter ; Stähli, Manfred

In: Landslides, 2020, p. -

In mountainous terrain, rainfall-induced landslides pose a serious risk to people and infrastructure. Regional landslide early warning systems (LEWS) have proven to be a cost-efficient tool to inform the public about the imminent landslide danger. While most operational LEWS are based on rainfall exceedance thresholds only, recent studies have demonstrated an improvement of the forecast...

Université de Fribourg

Admixture mapping in interspecific Populus hybrids identifies classes of genomic architectures for phytochemical, morphological and growth traits

Bresadola, Luisa ; Caseys, Céline ; Castiglione, Stefano ; Buerkle, C. Alex ; Wegmann, Daniel ; Lexer, Christian

In: New Phytologist, 2019, vol. 223, no. 4, p. 2076–2089

The genomic architecture of functionally important traits is key to understanding the maintenance of reproductive barriers and trait differences when divergent populations or species hybridize. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to study trait architecture in natural hybrids of two ecologically divergent Populus species. We genotyped 472 seedlings from a natural hybrid zone...