Sally Aitken, a UBC professor of Forest and Conservation Sciences was quoted in a Radio Canada story about her research on trees adapting to climate change.
She found that the lodgepole pine and the Interior spruce used a genetic solution called convergent evolution to survive the cold.
“Climate’s complicated, it’s not just temperature or just precipitation,” she said. “So this genetic approach helps us to identify the most important factors of climate that the trees are adapted to so that we can manage around those aspects of climate.”
