[WEB APP] A predictive seed provenancing tool for ecological restoration.
Seeds of Change is a decision support tool for ecological restoration. It identifies areas in California that may be suitable for seed collection or planting, by analyzing spatial data on climate change, soil characteristics, species distributions, and adaptive neighborhoods. I developed this Shiny app as part of a partnership with folks at the National Park Service, and with funding from the Berkeley Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity.
This is by no means the first tool out there to address this need, including some great seed provenancing apps like the Seedlot Selection Tool. But our version does include some novel features that we hope will help advance the utility for managers:
We’re excited to have the app up and running and have resource managers at the NPS and other organizations using it to help guide restoration efforts. Note that it’s still hosted on an underpowered server while we migrate it to its permanent home, so please bear with the slow performance. We’re working on a journal article describing the methods, so keep an eye out for that as well.