Potential distribution of Pinus cembroides Zucc. under scenarios from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project in Mexico

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https://doi.org/10.29298/rmcf.v17i93.1594

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Climate change, CHELSEA, CMIP6, species distribution, MaxEnt, distribution models

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Pinus cembroides is a piñon conifer resistant to dry conditions and is widely distributed in arid and semi-arid areas of Mexico, making it ideal for assessing the impacts of climate change on conifer forests. The impacts of climate change on the potential distribution of Pinus cembroides in Mexico was assessed, considering two climatic scenarios from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6): SSP2-4.5 (projected increase of 2.1 to 3.5 °C in mean temperature by the end of the twenty-first century) and SSP5-8.5 (projected increase of 3.3 to 5.7 °C). Modeling was based on the maximum entropy algorithm (MaxEnt), using 1 696 records of P. cembroides and 19 bioclimatic variables from CHELSA v2.1. The variables with the highest contributions were the temperature of the driest quarter (60.9 %) and the wettest quarter (28.9 %). Under the current climate conditions, only 6.3 % of mountainous regions in the Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre Occidental exhibited high suitability. Future changes in distribution were projected using a CMIP6 Multi-Model Ensemble (MME) in four periods: near-term (2021-2040), mid-term (2041-2060), far-term (2061-2080), and end of XXI century (2081-2100). In both scenarios, the potential distribution is projected to contract to ~10 % of its current extent by the end of the 21st century, limited to higher and wetter areas of low to medium suitability in Sierra de Juárez and Sierra Madre Oriental.

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2026-01-29

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Martínez-Sánchez, Julio Nemorio, Tereza Cavazos, Homero Alejandro Gárate-Escamilla, Wibke Himmelsbach, Eduardo Alanís Rodríguez, José Israel Yerena Yamallel, and Luis Gerardo Cuellar-Rodriguez. 2026. “Potential Distribution of Pinus Cembroides Zucc. Under Scenarios from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project in Mexico”. Revista Mexicana De Ciencias Forestales 17 (93). México, ME:95-121. https://doi.org/10.29298/rmcf.v17i93.1594.

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