Assessing Assisted Migration Under Climate Change Scenarios

Northern Research Station USDA Forest Service

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Assessing Assisted Migration Under Climate Change Scenarios

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Northern Research Station USDA Forest Service

Year:

2024

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

FS

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Abstract

Climate change is bringing rapid changes to the environment, including new temperature ranges and precipitation regimes. Some trees may no longer thrive and regenerate in their current locations, which in turn may reduce the ecosystem goods and services they have produced in the past.

Keywords

assisted migration, climate change

Citation

USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 2024. Assessing Assisted Migration Under Climate Change Scenarios. Rooted in Research Issue 38, August 2024. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 2 p.