Seed sourcing for restoration in an era of climate change

Natural Areas Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 122-133

  Havens, Kayri ^a   Vitt, Pati ^a   Still, Shannon ^a   Kramer, Andrea T ^a   Fant, Jeremie B ^a   Schatz, Katherine ^a  

^a CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted migration; climate change; provenance; restoration; seed sourcing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; GENETIC VARIATION; PROJECT DESIGN; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK;

EID: 84921926338     PISSN: 08858608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3375/043.035.0116     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Aitken, S.N., and M.C. Whitlock. 2013. Assisted gene flow to facilitate local adaptation to climate change. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 44:367-388
2. Angert, A.L., S.L. LaDeau, and R.S. Ostfeld. 2013. Climate change and species interactions: ways forward. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1297:1-7
3. Balduman, L.M., S.N. Aitken, M. Harmon, and W.T. Adams. 1999. Genetic variation in cold hardiness of Douglas-fir in relation to parent tree environment. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29:62-72
4. Billington, H.L., and J. Pelham. 1991. Genetic variation in the date of budburst in Scottish birch populations: Implications for climate change. Functional Ecology 5:403-409
5. [BLM] Bureau of Land Management. 2000. The Great Basin: Healing the Land.us Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, National Office of Fire and Aviation, Boise, ID
6. Bower, A.D., and S.N. Aitken. 2008. Ecological genetics and seed transfer guidelines for Pinus albicaulis (Pinaceae). American Journal of Botany 95:66-76
7. Bower, A.D., J.B. St. Clair, and V. Erickson. 2014. Generalized provisional seed zones for native plants. Ecological Applications .
8. Breed, M.F., M.G. Stead, K.M. Ottewell, M.G. Gardner, and A.J. Lowe. 2013. Which provenance and where?. Seed sourcing strategies for revegetation in a changing environment. Conservation Genetics 14:1-10
9. Broadhurst, L.M., A. Lowe, D.J. Coates, S.A. Cunningham, M. McDonald, P.A. Vesk, and C. Yates. 2008. Seed supply for broadscale restoration: Maximizing evolutionary potential. Evolutionary Applications 1:587-597
10. Clausen, J., D.D. Keck, and W.M. Heisey. 1940. Experimental Studies on the Nature of Species I. The Effect of Varied Environments on Western North American Plants. Publication #520, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Washington, DC.
11. Crémieux, L., A. Bischoff, M. Šmilauerová, C.S. Lawson, S.R. Mortimer, J. Doležal, V. Lanta, A.R. Edwards, A.J. Brook, and T. Tscheulin. 2008. Potential contribution of natural enemies to patterns of local adaptation in plants. New Phytologist 180:524-533
12. Darling, E., K.E. Samis, C.G. Eckert. 2008. Increased seed dispersal potential towards geographic range limits in a Pacific coast dune plant. New Phytologist 178:424-435
13. Dudley, S.A. 1996a. Differing selection on plant physiological traits in response to environmental water availability: A test of adaptive hypotheses. Evolution 50:92-102
14. Dudley, S.A. 1996b. The response to differing selection on plant physiological traits: evidence for local adaptation. Evolution 50:103-110
15. Ennos, R.A., R. Worrell, and D.C. Malcolm. 1998. The genetic management of native species in Scotland. Forestry 71:1-23
16. Erickson, V.J., N.L. Mandel, and F.C. Sorensen. 2004. Landscape patterns of phenotypic variation and population structuring in a selfing grass, Elymus glaucus (blue wildrye). Canadian Journal of Botany 82:1776-1790
17. Fenster, C.B. 1997. Ecotypic differentiation for flood tolerance and its morphological correlates in Chamaecrista fasciculata. Aquatic Botany 56:215-231
18. Fenster, C.B., and L. Galloway. 2000. Inbreeding and outbreeding depression in natural populations of Chamaecrista fasciculata (Fabaceae). Conservation Biology 14:1406-1412
19. Frankham, R., J.D. Ballou, M.D.B. Eldridge, R.C. Lacy, K. Ralls, M.R. Dudash, and C.B. Fenster. 2011. Predicting the probability of outbreeding depression. Conservation Biology 25:465-475
20. Harris, J.A., R.J. Hobbs, E. Higgs, and J. Aronson. 2006. Ecological restoration and global climate change. Restoration Ecology 14:170-176
21. Hereford, J. 2009. A quantitative survey of local adaptation and fitness tradeoffs. American Naturalist 173:579-588
22. Hijmans, R.J., S.E. Cameron, J.L. Parra, P.G. Jones, and A. Jarvis. 2005. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 25:1965-1978
23. Hoffmann, A.A., and C.M. Sgro. 2011. Climate change and evolutionary adaptation. Nature 470:479-485
24. Hope, A.G., E. Waltari, D.C. Payer, J.A. Cook, and S.L. Talbot. 2013. Future distribution of tundra refugia in northern Alaska. Nature Climate Change 3:931-938
25. Hopper, S.D. 2009. OCBIL theory: Towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes. Plant Soil 322:49-86
26. Hufford, K.M., and S.J. Mazer. 2003. Plant ecotypes: Genetic differentiation in the age of ecological restoration. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18:147-155
27. Hunter, M. 2007. Climate change and moving species: furthering the debate on assisted colonization. Conservation Biology 21:1356-1358
28. [IPCC] Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2007. Climate change 2007: Synthesis report. Accessed 8 January, 2014. .
29. Johnson, G.R., F.C. Sorensen, J.B. St Clair, N.C. Cronn. 2004. Pacific Northwest forest tree seed zones - a template for native plants?. Native Plants Journal 5:131-140
30. Johnson, R., L. Stritch, P. Olwell, S. Lambert, M.E. Horning, and R. Cronn. 2010. What are the best seed sources for ecosystem restoration on BLM and USFS lands?. Native Plants 11:117-131
31. Kaye, T.N. 2001. Common ground and controversy in native plant restoration: the SOMS debate, source distance, plant selections, and a restoration-oriented definition of native. Pp. 5-12 in R. Rose and D. Haase, eds., Native Plant Propagation and Restoration Strategies. Nursery Technology Cooperative and Western Forestry and Conservation Association, Corvallis, Oregon. Reprinted in 2007: Grasslands 17:4-9
32. Knapp, E.E., and K.J. Rice. 1994. Starting from seed: Genetic issues in using native grasses for restoration. Restoration and Management Notes 12:40-45
33. Kramer, A., and K. Havens. 2009. Plant conservation genetics in a changing world. Trends in Plant Science 14:599-607
34. Leger, E.A. 2008. The adaptive value of remnant native plants in invaded communities: an example from the Great Basin. Ecological Applications 18:1226-1235
35. Leimu, R., and M. Fischer. 2008. A metaanalysis of local adaptation in plants. PLoS ONE 3:e4010
36. Lesica, P., and F.W. Allendorf. 1999. Ecological genetics and the restoration of plant communities: Mix or match?. Restoration Ecology 7:42-50
37. Linhart, Y.B., and M.C. Grant. 1996. Evolutionary significance of local genetic differentiation in plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 27:237-277
38. Maggini, R., H. Kujala, M. Taylor, J. Lee, H. Possingham, B. Wintle, and R. Fuller. 2013. Protecting and restoring habitat to help Australia's threatened species adapt to climate change. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, Queensland, AUS
39. Maschinski, J., S.J. Wright, S. Koptur, and E.C. Pinto-Torres. 2013. When is local the best paradigm?. Breeding history influences conservation reintroduction survival and population trajectories in times of extreme climate events. Biological Conservation 159:277-284
40. McKay, J.K., C.E. Christian, S. Harrison, and K.J. Rice. 2005. "How local is local?" - A review of practical and conceptual issues in the genetics of restoration. Restoration Ecology 13:432-440
41. McLachlan, J.S., J. Hellmann, and M.W. Schwartz. 2007. A framework for debate of assisted migration in an era of climate change. Conservation Biology 21:297-302
42. Mealor, B.A., and A.L. Hild. 2007. Post-invasion evolution of native plant populations: a test of biological resilience. OIKOS 116:1493-1500
43. Millar, C.I., N.L. Stephenson, and S.L. Stephens. 2007. Climate change and forests of the future: Managing in the face of uncertainty. Ecological Applications 17:2145-2151
44. Miller, S.A., A. Bartow, M. Gisler, K. Ward, A.S. Young, and T.N. Kaye. 2011. Can an ecoregion serve as a seed transfer zone? Evidence from a common garden study with five native species. Restoration Ecology 19:268-276
45. Montalvo, A.M., and N.C. Ellstrand. 2000. Transplantation of the subshrub Lotus scoparius: Testing the home-site advantage hypothesis. Conservation Biology 14:1034-1045
46. Mueller, J.M., and J.J. Hellmann. 2008. An assessment of invasion risk from assisted migration. Conservation Biology 22:562-567
47. [NPMDP] Native Plant Materials Development Program. 2009. Progress Report for FY 2001-2007.us Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, DC.
48. O'Brien, E.K., R.A. Mazanec, and S.L. Krauss. 2007. Provenance variation of ecologically important traits of forest trees: implications for restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology 44:583-593
49. Omernik, J.M. 1987. Ecoregions of the conterminous United States (map supplement). Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77:118-125
50. Potter, K.M., and W.W. Hargrove. 2012. Determining suitable locations for seed transfer under climate change: A global quantitative method. New Forests 43:581-599
51. R Core Team. 2013. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. .
52. Rehfeldt, G.E. 2004. Interspecific and Intraspecific Variation in Picea engelmannii and its Congeneric Cohorts: Biosystematics, Genecology, and Climate Change.us Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ft. Collins, CO.
53. Rehfeldt, G.E., and B.C. Jaquish. 2010. Ecological impacts and management strategies for western larch in the face of climate-change. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 15:283-306
54. Rehfeldt, G.E., C.C. Ying, D.L. Spittlehouse, and D.A.J. Hamilton. 1999. Genetic responses to climate in Pinus contorta: Niche breadth, climate change, and reforestation. Ecological Monographs 69:375-407
55. Reichard, S., H. Liu, and C. Husby. 2012. Is managed relocation of rare plants another pathway for biological invasions?. Pp. 243-262 in J. Maschinski and K.E. Haskins, eds., Plant Reintroduction in a Changing Climate. Island Press, Washington, DC.
56. Ricciardi, A.R., and D. Simberloff. 2009. Assisted colonization is not a viable conservation strategy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24:248-253
57. Rice, K.J., and N.C. Emery. 2003. Managing microevolution: Restoration in the face of global climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1:469-478
58. Saari, C., and W. Glisson. 2012. Survey of Chicago region restoration seed source policies. Ecological Restoration 30:162-165
59. Sambatti, J.B.M., and K.J. Rice. 2006. Local adaptation, patterns of selection, and gene flow in the Californian serpentine sunflower (Helianthus exilis). Evolution 60:696-710
60. Sherry, R.A., X. Zhou, S. Gu, J.A. Arnone, D.S. Schimel, P.S. Verburg, L.L. Wallace, and Y. Luo. 2007. Divergence of reproductive phenology under climate warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104:198-202
61. Sultan, S.E. 2000. Phenotypic plasticity for plant development, function and life history. Trends in Plant Science 5:537-542
62. Suttle K., M. Thomsen, and M. Power. 2007. Species interactions reverse grassland responses to changing climate. Science 315:640-642
63. Thomas, M.A., G.W. Roemer, C.J. Donlan, B.G. Dickson, M. Matocq, and J. Malaney. 2013. Ecology: Gene tweaking for conservation. Nature 501:485-486
64. Thomson, A.M., K.A. Crowe, and W.H. Parker. 2010. Optimal white spruce breeding zones for Ontario under current and future climates. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research 40:1576-1587
65. Thrall, P.H., J.J. Burdon, and J.D. Bever. 2002. Local adaptation in the Linum marginale-Melampsora lini host-pathogen interaction. Evolution 56:1340-1351
66. Turesson, G. 1922. The genotypical response of the plant species to the habitat. Hereditas 3:211-350
67. VanDerWal, J., L. Falconi, S. Januchowski, L. Shoo, and C. Storlie. 2012. SDMTools: Species Distribution Modelling Tools: Tools for processing data associated with species distribution modelling exercises. R package version 1.1-13. .
68. VanDerWal, J., H.T. Murphy, A.S. Kutt, G.C. Perkins, B.L. Bateman, J.J. Perry, and A.E. Reside. 2012. Focus on poleward shifts in species' distribution underestimates the fingerprint of climate change. Nature Climate Change 2:1-5
69. Vitt, P., K. Havens, A.T. Kramer, D. Sollenberger, and E. Yates. 2010. Assisted migration of plants: Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes. Biological Conservation 143:18-27
70. Ward K., M. Gisler, R. Fiegener, and A. Young. 2008. The Willamette Valley seed increase program: developing genetically diverse germplasm using an ecoregion approach. Native Plants Journal 9:334-349
71. Weeks, A.R., C.M. Sgro, A.G. Young, R. Frankham, N.J. Mitchell, K.A. Miller, M. Byrne, D.J. Coates, M.D.B. Eldridge, P. Sunnucks, M.F. Breed, E.A. James, and A.A. Hoffmann. 2011. Assessing the benefits and risks of translocations in changing environments: a genetic perspective. Evolutionary Applications 4:709-725
72. Wilczek, A.M., M.D. Cooper, T.M. Korves, and J. Schmitt. 2014. Lagging adaptation to warming climate in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1406314111
73. Wilkinson, D.M. 2001. Is local provenance important in habitat creation?. Journal of Applied Ecology 38:1371-1373
74. Williams, S.E., L.P. Shoo, J.L. Isaac, A.A. Hoffman, and G. Langham. 2008. Toward an integrated framework for assessing the vulnerability of species to climate change. PLoS Biology 6:2621-2626
75. Ying, C.C., and A.D. Yanchuk. 2006. The development of British Columbia's tree seed transfer guidelines: Purpose, concept, methodology, and implementation. Forest Ecology and Management 227:1-13