Determining suitable locations for seed transfer under climate change: A global quantitative method.
Changing climate conditions will complicate efforts to match seed sources with
the environments to which they are best adapted. Tree species distributions may have to
shift to match new environmental conditions, potentially requiring the establishment of
some species entirely outside of their current distributions to thrive. Even within the
portions of tree species ranges that remain generally suitable for the species, local populations
may not be well-adapted to altered local conditions. To assist efforts to restore
forests and to maximize forest productivity in the face of climate change, we developed a
set of 30,000 quantitatively defined seed transfer ‘‘ecoregions’’ across the globe.
Publication Date: 2012
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