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Introduction
| Winter Temperature
| Summer Temperature
| Rain and Snow
| Cost of Cooling
| Cost of Heating
| Harvest Crops
| Cedar
| Oak
| Butterfly
| Forest and Grass
| Maps provided by:
GuidanceThese maps are not forecasts of species distribution but are forecasts
of the physical climate conditions preferred by these species. Soil conditions
and other land uses are not accounted for so actual future vegetation cover and
crop potentials will be different. Species interactions and rates of spread are
not accounted for as well. Future cedar and oak distributions are likely overly
optimistic as the speed that trees can die under poor conditions exceed the speed
that they can become established in new locations. Species were used to visualize,
for educational purposes, how changes of a few degrees in temperature can change
our landscape and economy. |
