Evaluation of interpolated climate date
- Interpolated climae data provides a very good estimation of climate conditions in western Canada.
Climate change trends in western Canada
- There has been a change in climate conditions towards warming in all ecoregions in western Canada.
- warming will continue in the next 100 years at a much faster rate than in the last 100 years.
Present and future Climate Characterization of Ecozones
- Present (1961-1990) climate is a a good
- Future climatechange is likely to results in changing the way current ecozones have been mapped
Follow-up activities
- It would be important to follow the work of characterization of ecozones at a much smaller scale within each of the ecoregions.
- characterization work carried out on individual speices or population ranges may be very valuable for forest resource managers.
- incorporating other factors affecting ecosystem and species distribution would be worthwhile
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