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pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens)

Model Reliability: Medium



Current Forest Inventory and Analysis under Current Conditions
Current Forest Inventory and Analysis under Current Conditions
(DISTRIB-II + SHIFT)
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Importance Value
GCM SCENARIO % Area Occ Ave IV Sum IV Future/Current IV
Actual2.113.58336N/A
RFimp2.87.662910.75
CCSM456.58152742.43
CCSM856.49.8183192.91
GFDL456.310.6193873.08
GFDL858.811.2289184.6
HAD456.28143982.29
HAD857.18.7182232.9
GCM457.67.4163562.6
GCM859.57.8218233.47

Regional Summary Tree Tables

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Pond cypress is a narrowly distributed (1.7% of area), sparse, but of high importance species where it occurs in bottomlands. As expected, it behaves very similarly to its cousin bald cypress with regards to capability to cope - fair rating. It gains suitable habitat, especially under the harsher RCP 8.5, and again up the eastern seaboard. SHIFT also suggests it appropriate for infilling, along with the contstraints on natural northward migration up the coast over 100 years.



Family:  Taxodiaceae

Guild: opportunistic, long-lived intermediate

Functional Lifeform: large deciduous conifer

5 1.56
-1.05 Model Reliability Medium

MODFACs
What traits will impact pond cypress's ability to adapt to climate change, and in what way?:

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