Authors
Bryce Richardson, USFS RMRS
Francis Kilkenny, USFS RMRS
Brad St.Clair, USFS, PNWRS
Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar, Conservation Biology Institute
Overview
The Climate-Smart Restoration Tool is a GIS mapping program designed to help natural resource managers match seedlots with planting sites based on climatic information.
Purpose
Over a century of genetic research has shown that environment, in particularly climate, strongly affects plant genetic adaptation and the geography distance seed can be moved from its source location. The Climate Smart Restoration Tool (CSRT) was developed to provide information on seed collection and transfer of native plants.
Geography
The CSRT is capable of constraining seed transfer based on species distribution model (when available), ecoregion, geographic distance and elevation for North America.
Results
The tool is available and ready for use here: https://climaterestorationtool.org/csrt/