Fig. 2: Phytoclimatic zones of the Earth and their shifts by 2070.
From: Reassessment of the risks of climate change for terrestrial ecosystems
Phytoclimatic zones have internally similar climatic suitability for different plant growth forms. a, Ambient phytoclimatic zones, derived from an unsupervised classification of grid cells by their climatic suitability for 14 plant growth forms (Fig. 1). b,c, The arrangement of phytoclimatic zones in 2070 under RCP 2.6 (b) and RCP 8.5 (c). The median climatic suitabilities for each growth form across five future climatologies were used to determine the future phytoclimatic zone of the grid cells for each RCP. Cells shown as ‘novel’ are projected to have growth-form suitability realizations without present-day analogue. Extended Data Fig. 5 shows shifts in phytoclimatic zones for different combinations of RCP and GCM.
