Assisted migration field tests in Canada and Mexico: Lessons, limitations, and challenges

C Sáenz-Romero, G O'Neill, SN Aitken… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Assisted migration of forest tree populations through reforestation and restoration is a
climate change adaptation strategy under consideration in many jurisdictions. Matching …

Recent evidence of Mexican temperate forest decline and the need for ex situ conservation, assisted migration, and translocation of species ensembles as adaptive …

C Sáenz-Romero, E Mendoza-Maya… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Symptoms of forest decline, apparently due to climate change, have become evident in the
last 10 years on the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and northwestern temperate forest of …

Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation

SJ Wenger, JD Olden - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecologists have long sought to distinguish relationships that are general from those that are
idiosyncratic to a narrow range of conditions. Conventional methods of model validation and …

North American vegetation model for land‐use planning in a changing climate: A solution to large classification problems

GE Rehfeldt, NL Crookston… - Ecological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Data points intensively sampling 46 North American biomes were used to predict the
geographic distribution of biomes from climate variables using the Random Forests …

Addressing climate change in the forest vegetation simulator to assess impacts on landscape forest dynamics

NL Crookston, GE Rehfeldt, GE Dixon… - Forest Ecology and …, 2010 - Elsevier
To simulate stand-level impacts of climate change, predictors in the widely used Forest
Vegetation Simulator (FVS) were adjusted to account for expected climate effects. This was …

Abies religiosa habitat prediction in climatic change scenarios and implications for monarch butterfly conservation in Mexico

C Sáenz-Romero, GE Rehfeldt, P Duval… - Forest Ecology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Abies religiosa (HBK) Schl. & Cham.(oyamel fir) is distributed in conifer-dominated mountain
forests at high altitudes along the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. This fir is the preferred host …

Suitable climatic habitat changes for Mexican conifers along altitudinal gradients under climatic change scenarios

E Gómez‐Pineda, C Sáenz‐Romero… - Ecological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The high biodiversity of the Mexican montane forests is concentrated on the Trans‐Mexican
Volcanic Belt, where several Protected Natural Areas exist. Our study examines the …

Bibliometric analysis of the structure and evolution of research on assisted migration

L Benomar, R Elferjani, J Hamilton, GA O'Neill… - Current Forestry …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Assisted migration is increasingly proposed as a proactive
management strategy to mitigate the consequences of maladaptation predicted under …

Projected vegetation changes for the American Southwest: combined dynamic modeling and bioclimatic‐envelope approach

M Notaro, A Mauss, JW Williams - Ecological applications, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This study focuses on potential impacts of 21st century climate change on vegetation in the
Southwest United States, based on debiased and interpolated climate projections from 17 …

Ecological impacts and management strategies for western larch in the face of climate-change

GE Rehfeldt, BC Jaquish - Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global …, 2010 - Springer
Approximately 185,000 forest inventory and ecological plots from both USA and Canada
were used to predict the contemporary distribution of western larch (Larix occidentalis Nutt.) …