Forest Genetics Research in the Mediterranean Basin: Bibliometric Analysis, Knowledge Gaps, and Perspectives
Bruno Fady
(1)
,
Edoardo Esposito
(2)
,
Khaled Abulaila
(3)
,
Jelena Aleksic
(4)
,
Ricardo Alia
(5)
,
Paraskevi Alizoti
(6)
,
Ecaterina-Nicoleta Apostol
(7)
,
Phil Aravanopoulos
(6)
,
Dalibor Ballian
(8)
,
Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat
(9)
,
Isabel Carrasquinho
(10)
,
Marwan Cheikh Albassatneh
(11, 12)
,
Alexandru-Lucian Curtu
(13)
,
Rakefet David-Schwartz
(14)
,
Giovanbattista de Dato
(15)
,
Bouchra Douaihy
(16)
,
Nicolas-George Homer Eliades
(17)
,
Louis Fresta
(18)
,
Semir Bechir Suheil Gaouar
(19)
,
Malika Hachi Illoul
(20)
,
Vladan Ivetic
(4)
,
Mladen Ivankovic
(21)
,
Gaye Kandemir
(22)
,
Abdelhamid Khaldi
(23)
,
Mohamed Larbi Khouja
(23)
,
Hojka Kraigher
(24)
,
François Lefèvre
(1)
,
Ilène Mahfoud
(25)
,
Maurizio Marchi
(26)
,
Felipe Pérez Martín
(27)
,
Nicolas Picard
(28)
,
Maurizio Sabatti
(29)
,
Hassan Sbay
(30)
,
Caroline Scotti-Saintagne
(1)
,
Darrin Stevens
(31)
,
Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin
(29)
,
Barbara Vinceti
(32)
,
Marjana Westergren
(24)
1
URFM -
Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes
2 ICTT - Laboratoire Identité Culturelle, Textes et Théâtralité
3 AAU - Amman Arab University
4 University of Belgrade [Belgrade]
5 INIA - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria = National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology
6 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
7 INFLPR - National Institute for Lasers, Plasma, and Radiation Physics [Magurele-Ilfov]
8 UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO - UNIVERZITET U SARAJEVU
9 USJ - Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth
10 INIAV - Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária = National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research [Oeiras, Portugal]
11 MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
12 Université de Damas = Damascus University
13 Transilvania University of Brasov
14 Institute of Plant Sciences, Volcani Center
15 FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [France]
16 LIU - Lebanese International University
17 Frederick University
18 DEFRA - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
19 Université Aboubekr Belkaid - University of Belkaïd Abou Bekr [Tlemcen]
20 UHBC - Université Hassiba Ben Bouali de Chlef
21 Croatian Forest Research Institute
22 Ankara University = Ankara Üniversitesi
23 INRGREF - Institut National de Recherche en Génie Rural Eaux et Forêts
24 University of Ljubljana
25 Tishreen University
26 IBE | CNR - Institute for BioEconomy [Sesto Fiorentino]
27 Ministerio para la Transici´on Ecol´ogica y el Reto Demogr´afico, Madrid, Spain
28 GIP ECOFOR - Groupement d'Interêt Public Ecosystèmes Forestiers GIP ECOFOR
29 UNITUS - Università degli studi della Tuscia = Tuscia University [Viterbo]
30 UIR - Université Internationale de Rabat
31 Environment & Resources Authority
32 Alliance - Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) [Rome]
2 ICTT - Laboratoire Identité Culturelle, Textes et Théâtralité
3 AAU - Amman Arab University
4 University of Belgrade [Belgrade]
5 INIA - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria = National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology
6 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
7 INFLPR - National Institute for Lasers, Plasma, and Radiation Physics [Magurele-Ilfov]
8 UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO - UNIVERZITET U SARAJEVU
9 USJ - Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth
10 INIAV - Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária = National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research [Oeiras, Portugal]
11 MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
12 Université de Damas = Damascus University
13 Transilvania University of Brasov
14 Institute of Plant Sciences, Volcani Center
15 FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [France]
16 LIU - Lebanese International University
17 Frederick University
18 DEFRA - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
19 Université Aboubekr Belkaid - University of Belkaïd Abou Bekr [Tlemcen]
20 UHBC - Université Hassiba Ben Bouali de Chlef
21 Croatian Forest Research Institute
22 Ankara University = Ankara Üniversitesi
23 INRGREF - Institut National de Recherche en Génie Rural Eaux et Forêts
24 University of Ljubljana
25 Tishreen University
26 IBE | CNR - Institute for BioEconomy [Sesto Fiorentino]
27 Ministerio para la Transici´on Ecol´ogica y el Reto Demogr´afico, Madrid, Spain
28 GIP ECOFOR - Groupement d'Interêt Public Ecosystèmes Forestiers GIP ECOFOR
29 UNITUS - Università degli studi della Tuscia = Tuscia University [Viterbo]
30 UIR - Université Internationale de Rabat
31 Environment & Resources Authority
32 Alliance - Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) [Rome]
Bruno Fady
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 738874
- IdHAL : bruno-fady
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- IdRef : 080220967
Jelena Aleksic
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154456
- ORCID : 0000-0003-3457-905X
Paraskevi Alizoti
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154457
- ORCID : 0000-0002-5656-8434
Ecaterina-Nicoleta Apostol
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154458
- ORCID : 0000-0001-6190-3869
Phil Aravanopoulos
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154459
- ORCID : 0000-0001-7194-2642
Dalibor Ballian
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154460
- ORCID : 0000-0002-0090-6617
Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 827278
- ORCID : 0000-0001-7969-1673
- IdRef : 089371534
Isabel Carrasquinho
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154461
- ORCID : 0000-0003-1331-3236
Alexandru-Lucian Curtu
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154462
- ORCID : 0000-0001-8509-279X
Rakefet David-Schwartz
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154463
- ORCID : 0000-0001-5923-8636
Giovanbattista de Dato
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154464
- ORCID : 0000-0003-0289-1727
Bouchra Douaihy
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154465
- ORCID : 0000-0001-7600-3409
Nicolas-George Homer Eliades
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154466
- ORCID : 0000-0002-8107-8584
Louis Fresta
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154467
- ORCID : 0000-0001-8645-7359
Semir Bechir Suheil Gaouar
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 800747
- ORCID : 0000-0001-8691-7116
Vladan Ivetic
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154468
- ORCID : 0000-0003-0587-1422
Mladen Ivankovic
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154469
- ORCID : 0000-0003-1198-9902
Gaye Kandemir
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154470
- ORCID : 0000-0002-4503-5317
Abdelhamid Khaldi
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154471
- ORCID : 0000-0002-3258-8860
- IdRef : 171196627
Hojka Kraigher
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154472
- ORCID : 0000-0001-5696-2178
François Lefèvre
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 741292
- IdHAL : francois-lefevre
- ORCID : 0000-0003-2242-7251
- IdRef : 075650762
Ilène Mahfoud
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 753357
- IdHAL : ilene-mahfoud
- ORCID : 0000-0003-3900-5581
Maurizio Marchi
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154473
- ORCID : 0000-0002-6134-1744
Nicolas Picard
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 757963
- ORCID : 0000-0001-5548-9171
Maurizio Sabatti
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154474
- ORCID : 0000-0001-7576-2112
Hassan Sbay
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154475
- ORCID : 0000-0002-2531-7982
Caroline Scotti-Saintagne
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 737074
- IdHAL : caroline-scotti-saintagne
- ORCID : 0000-0001-6891-7315
- IdRef : 074229737
Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 818481
- ORCID : 0000-0001-9921-7872
Barbara Vinceti
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154476
- ORCID : 0000-0001-8908-2994
Marjana Westergren
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1154477
- ORCID : 0000-0002-4204-0161
Résumé
Purpose of Review Recognizing that in the context of global change, tree genetic diversity represents a crucial resource for future forest adaptation, we review and highlight the major forest genetics research achievements of the past decades in biodiversity-rich countries of the Mediterranean region. For this, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature spanning the past thirty years (1991-2020). Putting together the representative regionwide expertise of our co-authorship, we propose research perspectives for the next decade. Recent Findings Forest genetics research in Mediterranean countries is organized into three different scientific domains of unequal importance. The domain "Population diversity and Differentiation" related to over 62% of all publications of the period, the domain "Environmental conditions, growth and stress response" to almost 23%, and the domain "Phylogeography" to almost 15%. Citation rate was trending the opposite way, indicating a strong and sustained interest in phylogeography and a rising interest for genetics research related to climate change and drought resistance. The share of publications from Asia and Africa to the total within the Mediterranean increased significantly during the 30-year period analyzed, reaching just below 30% during the last decade. Describing poorly known species and populations, including marginal populations, using the full potential of genomic methods, testing adaptation in common gardens, and modeling adaptive capacity to build reliable scenarios for forest management remain strategic research priorities. Delineating areas of high and low genetic diversity, for conservation and restoration, respectively, is needed. Joining forces between forest management and forest research, sharing data, experience, and knowledge within and among countries will have to progress significantly, e.g., to assess the potential of Mediterranean genetic resources as assisted migration material worldwide. Introductory quote: Let us collect with care the facts we can observe, let us consult experience wherever we can, and when this experience is inaccessible to us, let us assemble all the inductions which observation of facts analogous to those which escape us can furnish and let us assert nothing categorically; in this way, we shall be able little by little to discover the causes of a multitude of natural phenomena, and, perhaps, even of phenomena which seem the most incomprehensible... J.B. de Lamarck (Philosophie zoologique, 1809), cited by O. Langlet (1971).