Evolution of trees and forest communities

The overall goal of the Network is to link four major disciplines, Ecology, Genetics, Genomics and Evolution, to address global issues that European forests are currently facing, such as as environmental changes and erosion of biodiversity. During the four years of the EU support, EVOLTREE developed the necessary experimental and monitoring infrastructures and created a wide range of physical and electronic resources on which long term research can build upon.On 1st January 2011, the network was extended under the umbrella of the European Forest Institute’s (EFI) network, with 23 research groups in 13 European Countries.