Red Spruce Climate Change Workshop
Where to from here?
September 10-12, 2021
Workshop Goals
(1) Bring the community together to present and discuss information on red spruce climate adaptation, including relevant perspectives on ecology and natural history, physiology, genetic diversity, local adaptation, seed zones, and applied restoration and silviculture.
(2) Improve understanding of threats to red spruce climate adaptation and other threats under anthropogenic change.
(3) Identify priorities for addressing research and knowledge gaps, integration of research and applied restoration, and best practices for designing restoration plantings and assisted gene flow and migration.
(1) Bring the community together to present and discuss information on red spruce climate adaptation, including relevant perspectives on ecology and natural history, physiology, genetic diversity, local adaptation, seed zones, and applied restoration and silviculture.
(2) Improve understanding of threats to red spruce climate adaptation and other threats under anthropogenic change.
(3) Identify priorities for addressing research and knowledge gaps, integration of research and applied restoration, and best practices for designing restoration plantings and assisted gene flow and migration.
Panel Talks - link to workshop agenda with abstracts
Introduction and Welcome by Stephen Keller
Panel 1: Spruce Ecology and Natural History
Charlie Cogbill: The natural history and biogeography of red spruce
Elizabeth Byers: Natural communities of the red spruce ecosystem, with examples from the central Appalachians
Ali Kosiba: Disentangling the relationship between red spruce growth and climate
Panel Discussion
Panel 2: Spruce Physiology
Paul Schaberg: Winter and shoulder seasons: periods of potential promise and peril for red spruce
John Butnor: Impacts of climate transfer distance on red spruce physiology
John E. Major: Physiology of red spruce: controlling for genetic and environmental factors
Panel Discussion
Panel 3: Genetics and Local Adaptation
Carrie Pike: The genetics behind adaptation for restoration efforts
Anoob Prakash: Demographic history of red spruce and genotypic variation present in climate-adaptive traits after range
expansion and fragmentation
Brittany Verrico: The importance of spatial scale in restoration efforts for red spruce
Sean Hoban: Sampling seeds for ex-situ conservation of genetic diversity
Panel Discussion
Panel 4: Modeling and Prediction-Building
Thibaut Capblancq: Using genetic information to optimize reforestation efforts of red spruce
Susanne Lachmuth: Genomic offset as a tool to inform potential assisted migration in red spruce
Jane Foster: Recent range-wide expansion of montane red spruce suggests where favorable restoration conditions may persist
for decades
Panel Discussion
Panel 5: Restoration and Adaptive Silviculture
Dave Saville: The Central Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative (CASRI): A collaborative approach to forest restoration
Katy Barlow: Science, practice and conservation partnerships for forest climate adaptation
Christine Kelly: The Southern Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative’s (SASRI) approach to restoring forests degraded in the
past with an eye to future climate conditions
Pete Clark: Assisted migration and red spruce restoration plantings as part of adaptive silviculture for climate change
Panel Discussion
Introduction and Welcome by Stephen Keller
Panel 1: Spruce Ecology and Natural History
Charlie Cogbill: The natural history and biogeography of red spruce
Elizabeth Byers: Natural communities of the red spruce ecosystem, with examples from the central Appalachians
Ali Kosiba: Disentangling the relationship between red spruce growth and climate
Panel Discussion
Panel 2: Spruce Physiology
Paul Schaberg: Winter and shoulder seasons: periods of potential promise and peril for red spruce
John Butnor: Impacts of climate transfer distance on red spruce physiology
John E. Major: Physiology of red spruce: controlling for genetic and environmental factors
Panel Discussion
Panel 3: Genetics and Local Adaptation
Carrie Pike: The genetics behind adaptation for restoration efforts
Anoob Prakash: Demographic history of red spruce and genotypic variation present in climate-adaptive traits after range
expansion and fragmentation
Brittany Verrico: The importance of spatial scale in restoration efforts for red spruce
Sean Hoban: Sampling seeds for ex-situ conservation of genetic diversity
Panel Discussion
Panel 4: Modeling and Prediction-Building
Thibaut Capblancq: Using genetic information to optimize reforestation efforts of red spruce
Susanne Lachmuth: Genomic offset as a tool to inform potential assisted migration in red spruce
Jane Foster: Recent range-wide expansion of montane red spruce suggests where favorable restoration conditions may persist
for decades
Panel Discussion
Panel 5: Restoration and Adaptive Silviculture
Dave Saville: The Central Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative (CASRI): A collaborative approach to forest restoration
Katy Barlow: Science, practice and conservation partnerships for forest climate adaptation
Christine Kelly: The Southern Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative’s (SASRI) approach to restoring forests degraded in the
past with an eye to future climate conditions
Pete Clark: Assisted migration and red spruce restoration plantings as part of adaptive silviculture for climate change
Panel Discussion
