Aucoumea klaineana, an endemic tree of Gabon rainforest, is the main forestry resource of the country. It only regenerates in open habitats, not in the forest.
Extant trees represent founding individuals, surviving within the forest.
Parentage analysis at a forest - savannah edge in which three different waves of regeneration had occurred, enabled to locate male and female parents of most individuals of the two younger generations.
This allowed a unique confrontation between actual processes and predictions on mating structure and dispersal using population genetics statistical tools.
For instance, genetic diversity was preserved by surprisingly homogeneous contribution of local trees to reproduction and spatial genetic structure resulted from seed co - dispersal and not from mother - offspring proximity.
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