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A framework for community and ecosystem genetics: from genes to ecosystems
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Whitham, TG and Bailey, JK and Schweitzer, JA and Shuster, SM and Bangert, RK and LeRoy, CJ and Lonsdorf, EV and Allan, GJ and DiFazio, SP and Potts, BM and Fischer, DG and Gehring, CA and Lindroth, RL and Marks, JC and Hart, SC and Wimp, GM and Wooley, SC, A framework for community and ecosystem genetics: from genes to ecosystems, Nature Reviews Genetics, 7, (7) pp. 510-523. ISSN 1471-0056 (2006) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1038/nrg1877
Abstract
Can heritable traits in a single species affect an entire ecosystem? Recent studies show that such traits in a common tree have predictable effects on community structure and ecosystem processes. Because these 'community and ecosystem phenotypes' have a genetic basis and are heritable, we can begin to apply the principles of population and quantitative genetics to place the study of complex communities and ecosystems within an evolutionary framework. This framework could allow us to understand, for the first time, the genetic basis of ecosystem processes, and the effect of such phenomena as climate change and introduced transgenic organisms on entire communities.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | community and ecosystem genetics, genes, ecosystems, heritable traits, ecosystem processes, climate change, transgenic organisms |
| Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
| Research Group: | Evolutionary Biology |
| Research Field: | Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Plant Production and Plant Primary Products |
| Objective Group: | Forestry |
| Objective Field: | Native Forests |
| Author: | Bailey, JK (Associate Professor Joe Bailey) |
| Author: | Schweitzer, JA (Dr Jen Schweitzer) |
| Author: | Potts, BM (Professor Brad Potts) |
| ID Code: | 75724 |
| Year Published: | 2006 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 591 |
| Deposited By: | Plant Science |
| Deposited On: | 2012-02-10 |
| Last Modified: | 2012-10-31 |
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