LIFEGENMON
LIFE for European Forest Genetic Monitoring System
LIFE for European Forest Genetic Monitoring System
Genetic diversity ensures survival and adaptability of forest trees under changing environmental conditions and is needed to maintain the vitality of forests to cope with pests and diseases. Forest genetic resources face a large number of increasing threats. By introducing genetic monitoring into conservation programs and sustainable forest management one has the tool in hand to assess information on relevant changes of a species and populations’ adaptive and neutral genetic variation through time. Based on indicators and their verifiers it can serve as an early warning system to aid the assessment of a species response to environmental change at a long-term temporal scale.
The LIFEGENMON project (LIFE ENV/SI/000148) is co-financed by the European LIFE financial programme, the national ministries in Slovenia, Germany, and Greece, and all project beneficiaries.