An additional challenge for parentage analysis is that it requires exhaustive sampling and so is practical only over small spatial scales (less than 10 km) and low densities. Even extraordinary examples of this type of work include only about 1000 trees in isolated populations (Lesser & Jackson 2013). The continental distributions of dense coniferous forests do not lend themselves to these methods.

In which I master the art of scientific understatement

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