Forest Migration (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Forest migration is the movement of large seed plant dominated communities in geographical space over time. The emphasis of forest migration is placed on the movement of the tree communities that make up the forest community. Though an individual tree is permanently fixed in a location, tree populations may migrate over the landscape through generations. Tree migration is controlled by two overlying forces: environmental suppression and dispersal capacity of the population by seed. Though the true rate of forest expansion is difficult to quantify, efforts are being made to evaluate and predict past, current, and future rates and extents of forest movements.