Climate Limits and Climate Change Impacts on Plant Distribution: Evidence from Simulation Outcomes

This book systematically explores climate limits and climate change impacts on plant distribution, especially in China. It involves not only the establishment work flow of related methods such as climatically suitable habitat mapping, limiting climatic factor mapping, climatic niche dynamics assessment, multi-components vulnerability assessment, range shift velocity estimation in three geographical dimensions, but also discusses how climate controls the geographical distribution of plants in China? How specie climatic niche dynamics during afforestation around the world? How does climate change affect the multi-components vulnerability of plants? How does climate change affect the local species extinction risk, species turnover rate and species gain rate and species loss rate of plants in China? How climate change affects species range shift velocity (direction and speed) in China? It also mapped physical based climate change velocity in China for 13 climatic variables, and compared the difference between species velocity and temperature velocity. Besides, the book explores the climate and other factors impact on distribution pattern of seed plant richness in China at province scale, as well as climate change driven range shift of vegetation zone and climatic niche shift of vegetation greenness at regional scale. Various simulation studies will deepen our understanding of the biological and ecological processes on plants limit boundary and range shift. The book should sever as an beneficial book for all those who are interested in plant distribution, climate change ecology, biogeography, climate change adaptation forest management, vegetation restoration and conservation.