Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana)

 Interpretation GuideView the guide to reading the interpretive narrations

Virginia pine is narrowly distributed (6.0% of area), dense and highly important, middle continent pine with moderate adaptability, high abundance, and high model reliability. The model shows a very slight decrease in habitat, and only under RCP 4.5. Because of its common abundance and mid-adaptability rating, we class this species with a fair capabilityAn overall estimate of capability for the species to cope or persist with the changing climate within the eastern US. to cope with a changing climate. SHIFTMigration model that calculates the likelihood of colonization, based on current abundance over an approximately 100-year time period period to roughly intersect the future suitable habitats predicted by DISTRIB-II does present the species as a decent species for infillThe species is projected, according to SHIFT, to be a good species to plant to ‘fill in’ suitable habitats, most often in the general proximity and gaps present in the current range of the species.ing, and suggests that the newly suitable habitat in New England (under RCP 8.5) is not likely to get naturally colonized over the next 100 years.

RCP 4.5 SHIFTLoad DISTRIB-II + SHIFT output for the Moderate Emissions (RCP 4.5) climate model scenarioRCP 8.5 SHIFTLoad DISTRIB-II + SHIFT output for the High Emissions (RCP 8.5) climate model scenario