Lisa Nguyen
Appearances
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How Will Future Forests Survive Climate Change?
We've learned that over many, many years in forestry, that seeds, they have learned to adapt to their local situation. So if you move that seed, it might do okay for a few years. It might not. It might grow for a while. It might die later. Something will cause it to not succeed. This is Lisa Nguyen.
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How Will Future Forests Survive Climate Change?
Now, well, the climate is changing, right? So now we are looking at, is that seed even adapted to that spot anymore?
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How Will Future Forests Survive Climate Change?
We have a thing called seedlot selection tool. That is a tool that our geneticists developed, and it was really about helping silviculturists figure out what seed to select that's appropriate for what site. And it helps them look at maps and spatially. And it has the breeding zones in there. It has all the species in there.
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How Will Future Forests Survive Climate Change?
And so you can run this climate model and look at what does that seed mean in 50 years? What does it mean in 75 years? Basically, which of these seeds will grow well in the future climate of this location?
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How Will Future Forests Survive Climate Change?
Lisa talked about it, too. You look at different milestones. If you look out 25 years, what does it look like? If you look out 50 years, 100 years, what does it look like? And you have to know, you have to take into account now, because you have to have seedling survival, but you also have to take into account if that tree's going to be there for 100 plus years...
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How Will Future Forests Survive Climate Change?
You know, do you want seed that was adopted 100 years ago? You have to find that balance, right?