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Featured Scientist

Anantha Prasad – A champion for forest adaptation to climate change

Screenshot of Climate Change Tree Atlas 4.0.

Featured Product

Better predicting tree resilience under varying climate scenarios

Wildlife managers working together on a climate adaptation project idea.

Featured Partnership

Helping managers help wildlife adapt to climate change

US Forest Service Northern Research Station

July Feature - Climate Science

The only thing constant is change, and climate change is change on a global scale. The Northern Research Station’s July web features include a scientist who has dedicated his career to studying impacts of climate change on tree species habitats, the research underpinning the newest edition of the Climate Change Tree Atlas, and a partnership providing wildlife managers with a tool to inform decision making for wildlife and habitat management in the face of climate change.

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The Climate Change Tree Atlas: Managing Tree Species in the Face of Climate Change

For 20 years, the Climate Change Tree Atlas has given foresters insight into tree species trends and how possible future climate scenarios may affect eastern tree species' habitat suitability. The Climate Change Tree Atlas recently underwent a major overhaul. Now even more resources are available to land managers looking for detailed data sets and maps on species traits, habitat quality, land cover, and dispersal potential for most tree species in the eastern United States

Forestcast

Cicada emergence hole in soil surrounded by dead cicadas. Photo by Mac Callham, USDA Forest Service.

New Podcast Episode: Mac Callaham, a research ecologist, goes searching in Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest for one of Brood X’s most-southern cicada emergences.

Field note from a scientist on a once in 17 year event. Listen here >>