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• Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Worrall, James J.; Marchetti, Suzanne B. Crookston, Nicholas L. 2014. Adapting forest management to climate change using bioclimate models with topographic drivers. Forestry 2015; doi: 10.1093/forestry/cpv019
• Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Jaquish, Barry C.; López-Upton, Javier; Sáenz-Romero, Cuauhtémoc; Leites, Laura P.; Joyce, Dennis G. 2014. Comparative genetic responses to climate in the varieties of Pinus ponderosa and Pseudotsuga menziesii: Realized climate niches. Forest Ecology and Management 324:126-137
• Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Leites, Laura P.; StClair, J. Bradley; Jaquish, Barry C.; Sáenz-Romero, Cuauhtémoc; López-Upton, Javier; Joyce, Dennis G. 2014. Comparative genetic responses to climate in the varieties of Pinus ponderosa and Pseudotsuga menziesii: Clines in growth potential. Forest Ecology and Management 324:138-146
• Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Jaquish, Barry C.; Sáenz-Romero, Cuauhtémoc; Joyce, Dennis G.; Leites, Laura P.; StClair, J. Bradley; López-Upton, Javier 2014. Comparative genetic responses to climate in the varieties of Pinus ponderosa and Pseudotsuga menziesii: Reforestation. Forest Ecology and Management 324:147–157
• Richardson, Bryce A.; Kitchen, Stanley G.; Pendleton, Rosemary L.; Pendleton, Burton K.; Germino, Matthew J.; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Meyer, Susan E. 2014. Adaptive responses reveal contemporary and future ecotypes in a desert shrub. Ecological Applications. 24(2): 413-427.
• Crookston, Nicholas L. 2014. Climate-FVS Version 2: Content, users guide, applications, and behavior. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-319. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 38 p.
• Joyce, Dennis G.; Rehfeldt, Gerald E. 2013. Climatic niche, ecological genetics, and impact of climate change on eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.): Guidelines for land managers. Forest Ecology and Management. 295:173-192.
• Worrall, James J.; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Hamann, Andreas; Hogg, Edward H.; Marchetti, Susanne B.; Michaelian, Michael; Gray, Laura K. 2013. Recent declines of Populus tremuloides in North America linked to climate. Forest Ecology and Management. (In press).
• Worrall, James J.; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Hamann, Andreas; Hogg, Edward H.; Marchetti, Susanne B.; Michaelian, Michael; Gray, Laura K. 2013. Recent declines of Populus tremuloides in North America linked to climate. Forest Ecology and Management. (In press).
• Sáenz-Romero, Cuauhtemoc; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Crookston, Nicholas L.; Duval, Pierre; Beaulieu, Jean 2012. Spline models of contemporary, 2030, 2060, and 2090 climates for Michoácan state, México impacts on the vegetation. Rev. Fitotec. Mex. 35(4): 333-345.
• Sáenz-Romero, Cuauhtemoc; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Duval, Pierre; Lindig-Cisneros, Roberto A. 2012. Abies religiosa habitat prediction in climatic change scenarios and implications for monarch butterfly conservation in Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management. 275: 98-106.
• Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Crookston, Nicholas L.; Saenz-Romero, Cuauhtemoc; Campbell, Elizabeth M. 2012. North American vegetation model for land-use planning in a changing climate: A solution to large classification problems. Ecological Applications. 22(1): 119-141.

The supplemental material (Appendices A-C) for this paper are available here.
A set of rasters used to make the maps in this paper and suitable for use in ArcGIS are available here.


• Leites, Laura P.; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Robinson, Andrew P.; Crookston, Nicholas L.; Jaquish, Barry 2012. Possibilities and limitations of using historic provenance tests to infer forest species growth responses to climate change. Natural Resource Modeling. 25(3): 409-433.
• Leites, Laura P.; Robinson, Andrew P.; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Marshall, John D.; Crookston, Nicholas L. 2012. Height-growth response to climatic changes differs among populations of Douglas-fir: A novel analysis of historic data. Ecological Applications. 22(1): 154-165.
• Weiskittel, Aaron R.; Crookston, Nicholas L.; Rehfeldt, Gerald E. 2012. Projected future suitable habitat and productivity of Douglas-fir in western North America. Schweiz Z Forstwes. 163(3): 70-78.
• Weiskittel, Aaron R.; Crookston, Nicholas L.; Radtke, Philip J. 2011. Linking climate, gross primary productivity, and site index across forests of the western United States. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 41: 1710-1721.
• Ledig, F. Thomas; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Saenz-Romero, Cuauhtemoc; Celestino, Flores-Lopez. 2010. Projections of suitable habitat for rare species under global warming scenarios. American Journal of Botany 97(6): 970-987
• Crookston, Nicholas L.; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Dixon, Gary E.; Weiskittel, Aaron R. 2010. Addressing climate change in the forest vegetation simulator to assess impacts on landscape forest dynamics. Forest Ecology and Management. 260: 1198-1211.
• Sáenz-Romero, Cuauhtemoc; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Crookston, Nicholas L.; Duval, Pierre; St-Amant, Remi; Beaulieu, Jean; Richardson, Bryce A. 2010. Spline models of contemporary, 2030, 2060, and 2090 climates for Mexico and their use in understanding climate-change impacts on the vegetation. Climatic Change 102:595-623.

Figures associated with this paper can be viewed here.


• Sáenz-Romero, Cuauhtemoc; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Crookston, Nicholas L.; Duval, Pierre; St-Amant, Remi; Beaulieu, Jean. 2009. Estimaciones de cambio climático para Michoacán. Cuadernos de Divulgación Científica y Tecnológica del Consejo Estatal de Ciencia y Tecnología de Michoacán, C+Tec, Serie 3, Num. 28. 21 p. ISBN 978-607-424-115-0 [In Spanish].
• Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Jaquish, Barry C. 2010. Ecological impacts and management strategies for western larch in the face of climate-change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 15(3):283-306.
• Klopfenstein, Ned B.; Kim, Mee-Sook; Hanna, John W.; Richardson, Bryce A.; Lundquist, John E. 2009. Approaches to predicting potential impacts of climate change on forest disease: an example with Armillaria root disease. Res. Pap. RMRS-RP-76. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 10 p.
• Richardson, Bryce A.; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Kim, Mee-Sook 2009. Congruent climate-related genecological responses from molecular markers and quantitative traits for western white pine (Pinus monticola). International Journal of Plant Sciences 170(9): 1120-1131.
• Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Ferguson, Dennis E.; Crookston, Nicholas L. 2009. Aspen, climate, and sudden decline in western USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 258: 2353-2364.
• Crookston, Nicholas L.; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Ferguson, Dennis E.; Warwell, Marcus 2008. FVS and global Warming: A prospectus for future development In: Havis, Robert N.; Crookston, Nicholas L., comps. 2008. Third Forest Vegetation Simulator Conference; 2007 February 13–15; Fort Collins, CO. Proceedings RMRS-P-54. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 7-16
• Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Ferguson, Dennis E.; Crookston, Nicholas L. 2008. Quantifying the abundance of co-occurring conifers along Inland Northwest (USA) climate gradients. Ecology. 89(8): 2127-2139.
• Warwell, Marcus. V.; Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Crookston, Nicholas L. 2008. Modeling Species’ Realized Climatic Niche Space and Predicting their Response to Global Warming for Several Western Forest Species with Small Geographic Distributions. http://www.forestencyclopedia.net, p. 3659.
• Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Crookston, Nicholas L.; Warwell, Marcus V.; Evans, Jeffrey S. 2006. Empirical Analyses of Plant-Climate Relationships for the Western United States. International Journal of Plant Sciences 167(6):1123-1150.
• Rehfeldt, Gerald E.2006.A spline model of climate for the Western United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-165. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 21 p.

From others who reported work based on data from this site:

• Sáenz-Romero C. 2014. Guía técnica para la planeación de la reforestación adaptada al cambio climático. Comisión Nacional Forestal, Guadalajara, México. 72 p. [In Spanish].
• Castillo, Rafael F. del; Trujillo-Argueta, Sonia; Rivera-Garcia, Raul; Gómez-Ocampo, Zaneli; Mondragón-Chaparro, Demetria 2013. Possible combined effects of climate change, deforestation, and harvesting on the epiphyte Catopsis compacta: a multidisciplinary approach. Ecology and Evolution. 3(11):3935-3946.
• Zacarías-Eslava, Yunuhé and Rafael F. Del Castillo. 2010. Comunidades vegetales templadas de la Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca: pisos altitudinales y sus posibles implicaciones ante el cambio climático. Bol. Soc. Bot. Méx. 87:13-28 [In Spanish].