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Forthcoming
Chauvier, Yohann; Hagen, Oskar; Pinkert, Stefan; Albouy, Camille; Fopp, Fabian; Brun, Philipp; Descombes, Patrice; Altermatt, Florian; Pellissier, Loïc; Csilléry, Katalin, gbif.range: An R package to generate ecologically-informed species range maps from occurrence data with seamless GBIF integration. Submitted to Ecography. Preprint.
C Stefanini, I Chybicky, F Guillaume, M Kurz, C Sperisen, K Csillery. Assisted gene flow in forestry practice: assessment of risks and benefits 100 years after replicate introductions of Caucasian beech in Western Europe. Submitted to Mol Ecol. Preprint.
A Pistone, D Allard; C Schwörer; C Morales-Molino; W Tinner; K Csilléry, A novel statistical workflow using pollen records and regression kriging to reconstruct the spatially and temporally explicit demographic history of tree species. Submitted to Ecological Informatics. Preprint.
J Charlet de Sauvage, M Caduff, M Bison, J Alt, D Wegmann, K Csillery, Is there local adaptation in germination and early survival? Insights from a continental-scale transplant experiment using beech and fir provenance. In prep. for Journal of Ecology special issue "The importance of tree regeneration for maintaining mountain forest ecosystem services under global change"
M Bison, D Schweitzer, N Ponta, K Csillery. Next generation experimental citizen science: when research meets the needs of forestry facing climate change. In prep. for PNAS.
SCI Publications
SCI Publications
K Csilléry, H Yang, TH Hung, P Rodriguez Rodriguez, J Miller, V Mantovani, Y Chauvier, M Nobis. 2025 GenDivRange: A global database of geo-referenced population genetic diversity across species ranges. Nature Scientific Data. Visit www.gendivrange.org for more information.
G Kaplan, A Mora, K Csilléry, MC Schuman. 2025 Leveraging remote sensing to distinguish closely related beech species in assisted gene flow scenarios. Forest Ecology and Management 586, 122700.
M Kohler, J Gorges, D Andermahr; A Kölz; B Leder, RV Nagel; B Mettendorf, D Le Thiec, G Skiadaresis, M Kurz, C Sperisen, T Seifert, K Csilléry, J Bauhus. 2024. A direct comparison of the radial growth response to drought of European beech and Oriental beech clusters from the Greater Caucasus and Turkish Black Sea coast. Forest Ecology and Management, 572, 122130
T Denk, GW Grimm, S Cardoni, K Csilléry, M Kurz, E-D Schulze, MC Simeone, JRP Worth. 2024. A subgeneric classification of Fagus L. and revised taxonomy of western Eurasian beeches. Willdenowia, 54 (2-3), 151-181
P D’Odorico, MC Schuman, M Kurz, K Csilléry. 2023 Discerning Oriental from European beech by leaf spectroscopy: Operational and physiological implications. Forest Ecology and Management. Special issue on Assisted Migration.
M Kurz, A Kölz, J Gorges, B Pablo Carmona, P Brang, M Kohler, F Rezzonico, T Smits, J Bauhus, A Rudow, OK Hansen, H Sevik, P Zhelev, D Gömöry, L Paule, C Sperisen, and K Csilléry. 2023 Tracing the origin of oriental beech plantations across Western Europe and reporting hybridization with European beech — implications for assisted migration. Forest Ecology and Management. Special issue on Assisted Migration. pdf.
C Stefanini, K Csilléry, B Ulaszewski, J Burczyk, ME Schaepman, MC Schuman. 2023 A novel synthesis of two decades of microsatellite studies on European beech reveals decreasing genetic diversity from glacial refugia. Tree Genetics & Genomes 19:3. pdf
A Dimitrova, K Csilléry, M Klisz, M Lévesque, S Heinrichs, et al., A Montagnoli. 2022 Risks, benefits, and knowledge gaps of non-native tree species in Europe. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. pdf
E Szép*, B Trubenova*, K Csilléry. 2022 Using gridCoal to assess whether standard population genetic theory holds in the presence of spatio-temporal heterogeneity in population size. Molecular Ecology Resources. pdf. Associated software tool: gridCoal
K Csilléry, N Buchmann, O Brendel, A Gessler, A Glauser, AD Kupferschmid. 2022 Recovery of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) seedlings from ungulate browsing mirrors soil nitrogen availability. Tree Physiology, 42(2) 273–288. tpab105, pdf
EI Major, M Höhn, B Fady, K Heer, L Opgenoorth, A Piotti, F Popescu , D Postolache, GG Vendramin, K Csilléry. 2021 Fine-scale spatial genetic structure across the species range reflects recent colonization of high elevation habitats in silver fir (Abies alba Mill.). Molecular Ecology 30:5247–5265. link
EI Svensson , SJ Arnold, R Bürger, K Csilléry, J Draghi, JM Henshaw, A Jones, S De Lisle, DA Marques, K McGuigan, MN Simon, A Runemark. 2021. Correlational selection in the age of genomics. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5: 562–573. pdf
K Csilléry, N Buchmann, B Fady. 2020 Adaptation to drought is coupled with slow growth, but independent from phenology in marginal silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) populations. Evolutionary Applications 13: 2357–2376. pdf
K Csilléry, O Ovaskainen, C Sperisen, N Buchmann, A Widmer, F Gugerli. 2020 Adaptation to local climate in a multi-trait space: evidence from silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) populations across a heterogeneous environment. Heredity 124: 77–92. pdf Editor's choice
E Mosca, F Cruz, J Gómez Garrido, L Bianco, C Rellstab, S Brodbeck, K Csilléry, B Fady, M Fladung, B Fussi, D Gömöry, SC González-Martínez, D Grivet, M Gut, OK Hansen, K Heer, Z Kaya, KV Krutovsky, B Kersten, S Liepelt, L Opgenoorth, C Sperisen, KK Ullrich, GG Vendramin, M Westergren, B Ziegenhagen, T Alioto, F Gugerli, B Heinze, M Höhn, M Troggio, DB Neale. 2019 A reference genome sequence for the European silver fir (Abies alba Mill.): a community-generated genomic resource. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 9: 2039-2049. link
K Csilléry, A Rodríguez-Verdugo, C Rellstab, F Guillaume. 2018 Detecting the Genomic Signal of Polygenic Adaptation and the Role of Epistasis in Evolution. Molecular Ecology 27 (3): 603-825. link
S Rudman, M Barbour, K Csilléry, P Gienapp, F Guillaume, N Hairston Jr, A Hendry, J Lasky, M Rafajlovic, K Rasanen, P Schmidt, O Seehausen, N Therkildsen, M Turcotte, and J Levine. 2018 What genomic data can reveal about eco-evolutionary dynamics. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, 9–15. link
P Gienapp, S Fior, F Guillaume, JR Lasky, V Sork, K Csilléry. 2017 Genomic quantitative genetics to study evolution in the wild. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32 (12): 897-908. link
K Csilléry, G Kunstler, B Courbaud, D Allard, P Lassègues, K Haslinger, B Gardiner. 2017 Coupled effects of wind-storms and drought on tree mortality across 115 forest stands from the Western Alps and the Jura mountains. Global Change Biology 23 (12): 5092–5107 link
AM Roschanski*, K Csilléry*, S Liepelt, S Oddou-Muratorio, B Ziegenhagen, F Huard, KK Ullrich, D Postolache, GG Vendramin, B Fady 2016 Evidence of divergent selection for drought and cold tolerance at landscape and local scales in Abies alba Mill. in the French Mediterranean Alps. Molecular Ecology 25: 776–794
K Csilléry*, H Lalagüe*, GG Vendramin, SC González-Martínez, B Fady and S Oddou-Muratorio 2014 Detecting local adaptation and epistatic selection in climate related candidate genes at a short spatial scale in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) populations. Molecular Ecology 23: 4696–4708
H Lalagüe, K Csilléry, S Oddou-Muratorio, J Safrana, S de Quattro, B Fady, SC González-Martínez, GG Vendramin 2014 Nucleotide diversity and linkage disequilibrium at 56 stress and phenology candidate genes in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). Tree Genetics & Genomes 10: 15-26
K Csilléry*, M Seignobosc*, V Lafond, G Kunstler, B Courbaud 2013 Estimating long-term tree mortality rate time series by combining data from periodic inventories and harvest reports in a Bayesian state-space model. Forest Ecology and Management 292: 64-74
K Csilléry, O. Francois, M. Blum 2012 abc: an R package for Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC). Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3: 475-479
K Csilléry, M. Blum, O. Gaggiotti, O. Francois 2010 Invalid arguments against ABC: A reply to Templeton. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 490-491
K Csilléry, M. Blum, O. Gaggiotti, O. Francois 2010 Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) in practice. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 410-418
K Csilléry, T Johnson, D Beraldi, TH Clutton-Brock, D Coltman, B Hansson, G Spong, J Pemberton 2006 Performance of marker-based relatedness estimators in natural populations of outbred vertebrates. Genetics 173: 2091-2101
K Csilléry, Sz Lengyel. 2004. Density dependence in stream-dwelling larvae of fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra): a field experiment. Amphibia-Reptilia 25(3): 343-349
Other publications
Other publications
Chauvier, Yohann; Hagen, Oskar; Albouy, Camille; Descombes, Patrice; Fopp, Fabian; Nobis, Michael P.; Brun, Philipp; Lyu, Lisha; Pellissier, Loïc; Csilléry, Katalin (2022). gbif.range - An R package to generate species range maps based on ecoregions and a user-friendly GBIF wrapper. EnviDat. doi:10.16904/envidat.352.
L Lemaire, F Jay, I-H Lee, K Csilléry, MGB Blum. Goodness-of-fit statistics for approximate Bayesian computation. arxiv
Ph.D. Thesis: Statistical inference in population genetics using microsatellites. University of Edinburgh, UK, 2009 [pdf]
Selected media & outreach
Selected media & outreach
2025. Wald. Werte. Wir. 1/25 38 1. Handeln, erleben, verstehen. High school students from Germany participate in MyGardenOfTrees.
05.02.2024 Les élèves de Collège des Trois Vallées (Haute-Garonne, France) participent dans MyGardenOfTrees. Bienvenue à bord !
NZZ am Sonntag on New trees for our forests highlights our work Kurz et al. 2023.
M Kurz, N Ponta e K Csilléry. Ricerca partecipativa per foreste climate-smart. Sherwood. 14 Dicembre 2022
M Kurz, P Nicole, K Csilléry 2022 Auf der Suche nach dem Saatgut für die Bäume der Zukunft. Wald und Holz 9/22: 17-19.
M Kurz, P Nicole, M Bison, K Csilléry 2022 De la science participative pour des forets resilientes. La foret 9/22: 17-19.
Cartoon to illustrate the work flow of the ERC CoG project MyGardenOfTrees.
Gugerli F, Folly C, Kramer M, Brodbeck S, Graf R, Csilléry K, Opgenoorth L, Sperisen C, Martínez-Sancho E, Rellstab C 2022. Dank genetischer Vielfalt ist die Weisstanne fit für die Zukunft. Wald und Holz 11/22: 11–14.
Gugerli F, Folly C, Kramer M, Brodbeck S, Graf R, Csilléry K, Opgenoorth L, Sperisen C, Martínez-Sancho E, Rellstab C 2022. Grâce à la diversité génétique, le sapin est prêt pour l’avenir. La Forêt 11/22: 9–12.
M Kurz, C Sperisen, K Csilléry. 2019. Tracking the geographic origin of introduced Oriental beech (Fagus orientalis) in Western Europe. Technical Report prepared for botanical gardens. Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL [pdf]
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