Site Adaptation Prevails Over Species Determinism at Mediterranean Rear-edge Forests


Isabel Dorado Liñán1, Gianluca Piovesan2, Elisabet Martínez-Sancho3, Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo4, Chrisitan Zang5, Isabel Cañellas4, Daniele Castagneri6, Alfredo Di Filippo7, Emilia Gutierrez8, Joerg Ewald9, Laura Fernández-de-Uña10, Matthias Jantsch11, Tom Levanič12, Karl Mellert13, Giorgio Vacchiano14, Tzvetan Zlatanov15 and Annette Menzel3, (1)Technical University of Madrid, Forest Genetics and Ecophysiology Research Group, Madrid, Spain, (2)Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy, (3)Technische Universität München, Ecoclimatology, Freising, Germany, (4)INIA-CIFOR, Madrid, Spain, (5)Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (6)Università degli Studi di Padova, TeSAF, Padova, Italy, (7)Tuscia University, DendrologyLab, DAFNE, Viterbo, Italy, (8)University of Barcelona, Department of Ecology, Barcelona, Spain, (9)University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan Triesdorf, Freising, Germany, (10)Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRA, Nancy, France, (11)Bavarian State Institute of Forestry, Freising, Germany, (12)Slovenian Forestry Institute, Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (13)Technische Universität München,, Forest Nutrition and Water Resources, Freising, Germany, (14)Università di Milano, DISAA, Milan, Italy, (15)Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Sofia, Bulgaria