Titel
Genetic variation of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) along an altitudinal transect at mount Vogelsberg in Hesse, Germany
Verfasser
Thomas Sander
Susanne König
Gunter M. Rothe
Alwin Janssen
Hans Weisgerber
Erscheinungsort
Oxford
Verlag
Blackwell Science Ltd.
Erscheinungsjahr
2000
Seiten
1349-1361
Material
Sonderdruck
Standardsignatur
13010S
Datensatznummer
40003301
Quelle
Abstract
Allelic and genotypic variation at 13 different enzyme loci of autochthonous European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) was investigated in six 110–160-year-old stands growing at elevations between 150 and 660 m above sea level on the western slope of mount Vogelsberg in central Germany. The highest elevated population showed the highest number of effective alleles (Ne), the highest total heterozygosity (He) and the highest population differentiation δT . Also, the genotype SKD-A2A3 of shikimate dehydrogenase was significantly more frequent at the two highest elevated stands (P = 11%) than at the three lowest elevated stands (P = 1%). Further differences in genotype frequencies between 11 of 15 stand pairs were elevation independent.