Working Group 2 Report on Scientific results, Products, Dissemination activities and Future perspectives

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1 Final meeting of Cost Action FP1202 MaP-FGR and conference on forests Arezzo, Italy, September 2016 Working Group 2 Report on Scientific results, Products, Dissemination activities and Future perspectives WG2 Leader: G.G. Vendramin (MC member Italy) WG2 Vice Leader: P.G. Alizoti (MC member Greece)

2 AIMS OF WG 2 Evaluation and analysis of WG1 information (e.g. genetic diversity maps per species/populations, methodology for evaluation of FGR diversity, compilation of databases of relevant institutions, genetic material, trials and networks, gaps of information) Standardization of methods Meta-analysis of the data to identify common and divergent trends of FGR response to global change. DELIVERABLES Title Author and affiliation DELIVERABLES 5: Maps indicating the extend of genetic variation recorded for populations of the species under investigation (target species) based on molecular markers and genetic parameters evaluated by adaptive/growth and lifehistory traits. Identification of genetic parameters related to genetic erosion and extinction risks by species and population. DELIVERABLE 6 Predictive maps of changes in the distribution, composition and structure of some selected species in relation to climate change scenarios MILESTONE 2: "Selection of relevant species and MaP populations WG 2: 44 participants from 17 countries

3 Final meeting of Cost Action FP1202 MaP-FGR and conference on Summary of research, networking and dissemination activities activities by Cost Action FP12020 WG2 members: Deliverable 5 Organization of meta-database and collection of data regarding the populations studied for neutral and adaptive genetic variation. Contribution of data from 15 countries and for 19 species. Construction of maps based, on the data collected from the above Database, for the species with ample number of populations across Europe Title Author and affiliation FAGUS SYLVATICA Orange dots = Unknown Conservation status / Blue dots = Conserved pop. FAGUS SYLVATICA Green dots = Marginal pop. / Red dot = Non-marginal pop. / Pink dot = Unknown status

4 Summary of research, networking and dissemination activities activities by Cost Action FP12020 WG2 members: Deliverable 5 continued - Organization of sessions for hands on training regarding data entry in the GENFORED and GD squared Databases - Co-organization with WG3 of a Workshop held in Marseille, France for DB use, data format and analysis - Organization of a WG2 Workshop in Florence, Italy for raw data collection and organisation/selection and analysis as data collection from the GENFORED and GD squared DB was extremely limited. Based on the Environmental and Marginality Indexes that were recently delivered by WG1 and the raw data sampled mainly during the Florence Workshop: - Analysis on the patterns of genetic diversity among environmentally or geographically marginal vs core populations is ongoing - Analysis based on regression of intra-population phenotypic variation and phenotypic population plasticity against 5 marginality indexes is being carried out for quantitative/adaptive traits Deliverable 6 - Milestone 2: "Selection of relevant species and MaP populations Based on the data collected from the meta database the following RELEVANT SPECIES were identified: ADAPTIVE GENETIC VARIATION: Fagus sylvatica, Abies sp., Picea abies, Pinus halepensis, Pinus brutia, Pinus pinea, Pinus nigra MOLECULAR MARKERS: Fagus sylvatica, Fraxinus excelsior, Picea abies, Abies sp., Quercus robur, Quercus petraea, Pinus nigra,pinus halepensis, Pinus brutia, Pinus pinaster

5 Summary of research, networking and dissemination activities activities by Cost Action FP12020 WG2 members: Organization of a Training School in collaboration with WG4 in Chania Crete Contribution to the organization of the Training School in Pieve Tesino Involvement of the WG Leader as a Trainer in three Training Schools and of the Vice Leader in one Training School Contribution to the Short Training Scientific Missions (STSMs) Contribution to the opinion paper, coordinated by WG3: Evolution-based approach needed for the conservation and silviculture of peripheral forest tree populations, published in Forest Ecology and Management, 2016 Publication of three papers (where Map/FGR is acknowledged) GM Unger, M Heuertz, G.G. Vendramin, JJ Robledo Arnuncio (2015). Assessing Early Fitness Consequences of Exotic Gene Flow in The Wild: A Field Study with Iberian Pine Relicts. Evolutionary Applications. Doi: /eva C Leonarduzzi, A Piotti, I Spanu, GG Vendramin (2016). Effective gene flow in a historically fragmented area at the southern edge of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) distribution. Tree Genetics & Genomes, DOI /s A Piotti, C Leonarduzzi, D Postolache, F Bagnoli, I Spanu, L Brousseau, C Urbinati, S Leonardi, GG Vendramin (2016). Unexpected scenarios from Mediterranean refugial areas: disentangling complex demographic dynamics along the Apennine distribution of silver fir. Journal of Biogeography (in press) Papers submitted/preparation within STSMs JM Aleksić, A Piotti, T Geburek, GG Vendramin (2016). Exploring and conserving a microcosm : Whole-population genetic characterization within a refugial area of the endemic, relict conifer Picea omorika. Submitted to Conservation Genetics I Stojanović, J Lazarević, I Spanu, A Piotti, F Bagnoli, GG Vendramin (2016). Tree fragmented populations from refugial areas: the amfiadriatic connection. The case of Pinus leucodermis (in preparation)

6 FUTURE ACTIVITIES Completion of the analyses on patterns of genetic variation, intra-population variation and phenotypic plasticity based on environmental and marginality indexes and publication of the results in peer-reviewed journals Evaluation of common trends across species Finalization of the papers produced within STSMs