Future climate envelopes
AN 1b
Hub: All
Year: 2021-2022
Amy Wotherspoon, PDF
In collaboration with experts on climate modelling, Amy Wotherspoon (PDF) will have an objective to produce consistent, fine resolution and spatially-explicit climate layers of historic trends and future projections for key variables at each Hub. She will assess likely changes in climate at each site, providing insights into how the drivers of tree growth are likely to evolve over time. Once these consistent layers have been produced, Amy Wotherspoon will utilise state-of-the-art species distribution and stand dynamics modelling approaches to map the current and future growth trends of key production species at each Hub, as well as the non-conventional timber species important for First Nations communities. Outcome (AN.1b): Early into Silva21, access to consistent spatial climate variables at all Hubs, and indicators of change of the key climatic drivers.
Amy Wotherspoon, PDF at University of British Columbia
Main Partner: Canadian Wood Fibre Centre
Professor Nicholas Coops
Collaborator Alexis Achim
Wotherspoon, A.R., D'Orangeville, L., Thiffault, N., Pedlar, J.H., Raymong, P., Ravn, Spearing, M., Isaac-Renton, M., Godbout, J., Gravel-Grenier, J., McPhee, D. (2025) Challenges and opportunities for the operationalization of forest-assisted migration in Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 55: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0325
Wotherspoon, A. R., Moreau, G., Morin-Bernard, A., Achim, A., Coops, N. C., Villemaire-Côté, O., ... & Roeser, D. (2025). Challenges in teaching silviculture in Canada: the path forward. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 55, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2025-0081
Wotherspoon, A.R. (2025). Accessing and utilizing climate data to inform forest management practices. The Professional Foresters of Ontario Newsletter. June 2025. https://opfa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/issue-258-June-2025_2025-06-18.pdf
Wotherspoon, A.R., Thiffault, N. (2024). Introducing: the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change experiments at the Petawawa Research Forest. Silva21 Snapshots, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Mulverhill, C., Coops, N.C., Boulanger, Y., Hoffman, K.M., Christianson, A.C., Daniels, L.D., Flamand-Hubert, M., Wotherspoon, A.R., Achim, A. 2024. Wildfires are spreading fast in Canada - we must strengthen forests for the future. Nature 633, 282-285. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02919-z
Nelson Thiffault, Jeff Fera, Michael K. Hoepting, Trevor Jones, and Amy Wotherspoon. (2024) Adaptive silviculture for climate change in the Great Lakes- St. Lawrence Forest Region of Canada: Background and design of a long-term experiment. The Forestry Chronicle. e-First https://doi.org/10.5558/tfc2024-016
Chagnon, C., Wotherspoon, A.R. (2023). Broad-scale wood degradation dynamics in the face of climate change. Silva21 Snapshots, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Chagnon, C., Wotherspoon, A.R. (2021). Climate-growth response to boreal black spruce shifts from positive to negative at 50°N. Silva21 Snapshots, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Wotherspoon, A., Burnett, M., Bernard, A., Achim, A., Coops, N.C. (2022) Climate Scenarios for Canadian Forests. Silva21, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. https://bit.ly/3Xy7gFt