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Research at the Southern Institute of Forest Genetics (SIFG) focuses on developing procedures to improve the health, productivity and genetic diversity of southern forests through better understanding of the genetics, ecology and evolutionary relationships in forest ecosystems. Learn more about us →
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Climate Change and Red Spruce
Red spruce faces a variety of challenges in the southern Appalachians — from past exploitative logging to land use change and forest fragmentation, and now climate change. A three-year study funded by the National Science Foundation is investigating historic red spruce decline in abundance and range shifts — as well as how those shifts might continue in the future.
Latest Publications
- An Automatic Processing Framework for In Situ Determination of Ecohydrological Root Water Content by Ground-Penetrating Radar
Liu, Xinbo; Guo, Li; Cui, Xihong; Butnor, John R.; Boyer, Elizabeth W.; Yang, Dedi; Chen, Jin; Fan, Bihang. - Defense responses of Austrian Pine to two opportunistic pathogens of contrasting aggressiveness under combined drought and temperature stress
Bonello, Pierluigi Enrico; Conrad, Anna; Slot, Jason; Andrei Visser, Erik; Naidoo, Sanushka. - Various Propagation Ways in Alnus Glutinosa with Different Sensitivity to Phytophthora × Alni
Šedivá, Jana; Štochlová, Petra; Novotná, Kateřina; Černý, Karel. - Using a Poplar Hybrid to Explore Host Plant Genetic Control of Associating Insect and Fungal Species
Simon, Sandra J.; Difazio, Stephen P.; Macaya-Sanz, David. - The Resistance of Mulberry Tree Species to Two Foliar Diseases in the Rainforest Ecological Zone of Nigeria
Akinlabi, Oduntan O.; Ayansola, Onilude Q.; Ogunremi, Charles O.