Postdoctoral Researcher California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, California, United States
The strong relationship between climate conditions and vegetation distributions is being eroded by recent climate change. We found that up to 20% of modern conifer forests in California’s Sierra Nevada are mismatched to the climate, which precipitates difficult moral and practical questions about managing the forests of the future.
Learning Objectives:
Understand, in broad strokes, the phenomenon of Vegetation-Climate Mismatch
Appreciate the importance of value attribution in thinking through the moral permissibility of assisted migration in areas experiencing Vegetation-Climate Mismatch
