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Journal Articles Forests Year : 2022

Non-Native Forest Tree Species in Europe: The Question of Seed Origin in Afforestation

1 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2 BioForA - Biologie intégrée pour la valorisation de la diversité des Arbres et de la Forêt
3 BFW - Austrian Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape
4 IBL - Forest Research Institute
5 Skogforsk - Forestry Research Institute of Sweden
6 BOKU - Universität für Bodenkultur Wien = University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences [Vienne, Autriche]
7 Slovenian Forestry Institute
8 LWF - Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft - Bavarian State Institute of Forestry
9 UKIM - Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
10 NIBIO - Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi=Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
11 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
12 University of Ljubljana
13 University of Banja Luka
14 Croatian Forest Research Institute
15 Universidad de Huelva
16 Forestry and Game Management Research Institute
17 ERTI - Hungarian Forest Research Institute
18 SAS - Slovak Academy of Sciences
19 Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
20 UNFU - Ukrainian National Forestry University
21 EMU - Estonian University of Life Sciences
22 Forest Research, Northern Research Station
23 INCDS - National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry ‘Marin Dracea’
24 CREA – Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Arezzo, Italy
25 Research Centre for Forestry and Wood
26 UF - University of Forestry
27 BAS - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
28 Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
29 LUKE - Natural Resources Institute Finland
30 University of Novi Sad
Paraskevi Alizoti
Marcin Miroslav Klisz
Marjana Westergren
Branislav Cvjetković
Martina Đodan
Manuel Fernández
Zsolt Keserű
Vasyl Lavnyy
Krasimira Petkova

Abstract

Non-native forest tree species have been introduced in Europe since the 16th century, but only in the second half of the 20th century the significance of the seed source origin for their economic use was recognized, resulting in the establishment of numerous provenance trials at a national, regional, European and International level, as those led by IUFRO. Breeding programs have also been launched in the continent for the most economically important species. Aim of this work is the formulation of provenance recommendations for planting of five non-native tree species in Europe (Douglas fir, grand fir, Sitka spruce, lodgepole pine and black locust), based on the information obtained from twenty countries, in the frame of the EU FP-1403 NNEXT Cost Action. The survey revealed that official and non-official national recommendations, based on provenance research results, have been elaborated and followed at a different level and extend for the above five species, but only for Douglas fir recommendations exist in almost all the participating to the survey countries. The compilation of provenance recommendations across Europe for each species is presented in the current work. Besides the recommended introduced seed sources, European seed sources are also preferred for planting, due to ease of access and high availability of forest reproductive material. European breeding programs yielding genetic material of high productivity and quality constitute currently the seed source of choice for several species and countries. Consolidation of trial data obtained across countries will allow the joint analysis that is urgently needed to draw solid conclusions, and will facilitate the development of ‘Universal-Response-Functions’ for the species of interest, rendering possible the identification of the genetic material suitable for global change. New provenance trial series that will test seed sources from the entire climatic range of the species, established in sites falling within and outside the environmental envelopes of their natural ranges, are urgently needed to pinpoint and understand the species-specific climate constraints, as well as to correlate functional traits to the seed origin and the environmental conditions of the test sites, so that the selection of suitable forest reproductive material of non-native tree species in the face of climate change can be feasible.
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hal-04037364 , version 1 (19-12-2023)

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Paraskevi Alizoti, Jean-Charles Bastien, Debojyoti Chakraborty, Marcin Miroslav Klisz, Johan Kroon, et al.. Non-Native Forest Tree Species in Europe: The Question of Seed Origin in Afforestation. Forests, 2022, 13 (2), pp.273. ⟨10.3390/f13020273⟩. ⟨hal-04037364⟩
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