Forest Vulnerability Assessment Tool: Vulnerability of trees species to climate change

Not all species will react equally in the face of rapid environmental change. Vulnerability depends on its degree of exposure (i.e., the environmental change an individual will experience), its sensitivity to altered growing conditions, and its adaptive capacity (i.e., its ability to accommodate or cope with those environmental changes). These interactive maps show Canadian forest vulnerability to drought and migration failure by combining spatially explicit exposure to climate change, stand composition data and species sensitivity.