Fig. 3: Response of tree species to climate change across biomes.
From: Regional uniqueness of tree species composition and response to forest loss and climate change
The median absolute latitude and median elevation shift among species, fraction of lost and gained species, and change in taxonomic and phylogenetic composition under climate change were computed for each forest ecoregion. The boxplots show statistics for n = 239 ecoregions for Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests, n = 14 ecoregions for Tropical Coniferous Forests, n = 55 ecoregions for Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests, n = 26 ecoregions for Boreal Forests, n = 91 ecoregions for Temperate Broadleaf Forests, n = 49 ecoregions for Temperate Conifer Forests and n = 61 ecoregions for Mediterranean Forests. The center line of the boxplots shows the median, the box limits the quartiles, the whiskers 1.5 times the interquartile range, and the points the outliers. Changes are computed between predicted distributions with climate variables for 1981-2010 and climate projections for 2071-2100 under climate change scenario SSP 5.85. Changes in composition are computed as the Euclidean distance between scaled NMDS and evoPCA values computed at the ecoregion level. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
