Dominant forest tree species are potentially vulnerable to climate change over large portions of their range even at high latitudes.

ABSTRACT: Projecting suitable conditions for a species as a function of future climate provides a reasonable, although admittedly imperfect, spatially explicit estimate of species vulnerability associated with climate change. Projections emphasizing range shifts at continental scale, however, can mask contrasting patterns at local or regional scale where management and policy decisions are made. Moreover, models usually show potential for areas to become climatically unsuitable, remain suitable, or become suitable for a particular species with climate change, but each of these outcomes raises markedly different ecological and management issues. Managing forest decline at sites where climatic stress is projected to increase is likely to be the most immediate challenge resulting from climate change. H

SUBMITTER: Perie C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4950616 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature