Greta Bocedi, Katherine E. Atkins, Jishan Liao, Roslyn C. Henry, Justin M.J. Travis, Jessica J. Hellmann in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In these simulations, competition slows range expansion.

Neale D, Langley C, Salzberg S, Wegrzyn J: Open access to tree genomes: the path to a better forest. Genome Biology 2013, 14:120.

Neale et al. make the case for open access tree genome data and encourage centralization.

The norway and white spruce genomes have both been sequenced!

In case you missed it, Lizzie Wolkovich mentioned this study by Yann Vitasse just before we got started with lab meeting this week. Take home?

This study demonstrates that later leaf emergence of canopy trees compared with understory trees results from ontogenic changes and not from the vertical thermal profile that exists within forests. This study warns against the assumption that phenological data obtained in warming and photoperiod experiments on juvenile trees can be used for the prediction of forest response to climate warming.