UC Berkeley Launches Tool to Select Plant Seeds in a Changing Climate

July 14, 2024 – UC Berkeley released a new spatial tool to help land managers in California select plant seeds for resilience to climate change. With the new online tool, called Seeds of Change, users can search by plant species, specify species parameters and climate change scenarios. 

Users can search by plant species, specify species parameters and climate change scenarios, and click on the map to identify places to collect seeds to plant or places to plant with seeds from that site. Users can export a geographic information system (GIS) file of the results.

 Climate resilient planting is an important strategy to create and maintain healthy landscapes that are less susceptible  to catastrophic wildfire and adapted to a rapidly changing climate.