North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East

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Sharma, Shubhi | Andrus, Robert | Bergeron, Yves | Bogdziewicz, Michal | Bragg, Don | Brockway, Dale | Cleavitt, Natalie | Courbaud, Benoît | Das, Adrian | Dietze, Michael | Fahey, Timothy | Franklin, Jerry | Gilbert, Gregory | Greenberg, Cathryn | Guo, Qinfeng | Hille Ris Lambers, Janneke | Ibanez, Ines | Johnstone, Jill | Kilner, Christopher | Knops, Johannes | Koenig, Walter | Kunstler, Georges | Lamontagne, Jalene | Macias, Diana | Moran, Emily | Myers, Jonathan | Parmenter, Robert | Pearse, Ian | Poulton-Kamakura, Renata | Redmond, Miranda | Reid, Chantal | Rodman, Kyle | Scher, C. Lane | Schlesinger, William | Steele, Michael | Stephenson, Nathan | Swenson, Jennifer | Swift, Margaret | Veblen, Thomas | Whipple, Amy | Whitham, Thomas | Wion, Andreas | Woodall, Christopher | Zlotin, Roman | Clark, James

Edité par CCSD ; National Academy of Sciences -

International audience. Significance Suitable habitats for forest trees may be shifting fast with recent climate change. Studies tracking the shift in suitable habitat for forests have been inconclusive, in part because responses in tree fecundity and seedling establishment can diverge. Analysis of both components at a continental scale reveals a poleward migration of northern species that is in progress now. Recruitment and fecundity both contribute to poleward spread in the West, while fecundity limits spread in the East, despite a fecundity hotspot in the Southeast. Fecundity limitation on population spread can confront conservation and management efforts with persistent disequilibrium between forest diversity and rapid climate change.

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