Assisted migration of plants: Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes

Rapid climate change has the potential to alter the location of bioclimatic envelopes for a significant portion of the world’s flora. Plant species will respond variously via phenotypic plasticity, evolutionary adaptation, migration, or extinction. When fragmentation limits migration potential of many species or when natural migration rates are outstripped by the pace of climate change, some propose purposeful, human-mediated migration (assisted...