Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change
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Title:
Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change
Creator:
Kai Zhu
Christopher W. Woodall
James S. Clark
Publisher:
Global Change Biology
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English

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Tree species are expected to track warming climate by shifting their ranges to higher latitudes or elevations, but current evidence of latitudinal range shifts for suites of species is largely indirect. In response to global warming, offspring of trees are predicted to have ranges extend beyond adults at leading edges and the opposite relationship at trailing edges. Large-scale forest inventory data provides an opportunity to compare present latitudes of seedlings and adult trees at their range limits. Using the USDA Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data, we directly compared seedling and tree 5th and 95th percentile latitudes for 92 species in 30 longitudinal bands for 43,334 plots across the eastern U.S. ( English )

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Florida International University
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