There’s a new paper in Ecology Letters on tree migration rates by Ordonez & Williams. Jacquelyn Gill has a nice write-up with some background that discusses the McLachlan paper we refer back to so often in the Aitken lab.

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_{Ordonez, A., Williams, J. W. (2013), Climatic and biotic velocities for woody taxa distributions over the last 16 000 years in eastern North America. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/ele.12110}

_{Jason S. McLachlan, James S. Clark, and Paul S. Manos 2005. MOLECULAR INDICATORS OF TREE MIGRATION CAPACITY UNDER RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE. Ecology 86:2088–2098. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/04-1036}

And here are the same trees, a little less that two weeks later. Funny weather at Saturna this morning, it was warm (guessing 20 C) when I left in the morning and then the fog on the ocean slowly lifted and then more quickly, and more quickly, started to whip up the hills. I was freezing by 9 am. But it was still gorgeous. A small sampling of some of the species in flower now below:

And, for now, over and out.