DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14842419
title: Useful Tree Species prioritized for Climate Suitability Maps (baseline and 2050s) for Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda

description: Different climate atlases were produced for Burkina Faso (https://zenodo.org/records/14604194), Ethiopia (https://zenodo.org/records/14586848), Kenya (https://zenodo.org/records/14586505), Rwanda (https://zenodo.org/records/14586390), Tanzania (https://zenodo.org/records/14587104) and Uganda (https://zenodo.org/records/14586965). Methods of producing these climate atlases from environmental ranges available via the TreeGOER database (Kindt 2023) are provided for each country in their respective archives.

Here the complete list of useful tree species is provided, indicating for which country climate suitability maps were produced.

For each species, we included additional columns that give:



Taxonomic descriptions available from World Flora Online (Borsch et al. 2020), including hyperlinks to species-specific information

The number of observations from which environmental ranges were calculated in the TreeGOER database

The number of suitable raster cells for the focal country

Information that the species was included (or not) within assemblages of native tree species in the GlobalUsefulNativeTrees database (Kindt et al. 2023)

Information available from the Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA4U), including hyperlinks to species-specific information

Information available from CIFOR-ICRAF via the RELMA-ICRAF useful tree species series or the Agroforestry Species Switchboard


The list of species represents a working list for developing What To Plant Where portals under the Right Tree, Right Place – Seed Project (RTRP-Seed).

 

References



Kindt, R. (2023). TreeGOER: A database with globally observed environmental ranges for 48,129 tree species. Global Change Biology, 00, 1–16. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16914.

Kindt, R. (2024). TreeGOER: Tree Globally Observed Environmental Ranges (2024.07) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13132613

Kindt, R. (2025). Baseline and Future (Shared Socio-economic Pathways 1-2.6 and 3-7.0 for the 2050s) Climate Suitability Maps for 381 Useful Tree Species for Burkina Faso (2025.01) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14604194

Kindt, R., Abiyu, A., Lillesø, J.-P. B., & Moestrup, S. (2025). Baseline and Future (Shared Socio-economic Pathways 1-2.6 and 3-7.0 for the 2050s) Climate Suitability Maps for 355 Useful Tree Species for Ethiopia (2025.01) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14586848

Kindt, R., Pedercini, F., Hagenimana, T., & Graudal, L. (2025). Baseline and Future (Shared Socio-economic Pathways 1-2.6 and 3-7.0 for the 2050s) Climate Suitability Atlas for 291 Useful Tree Species for Rwanda (2025.01) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14586390

Kindt, R., & Pedercini, F. (2025). Baseline and Future (Shared Socio-economic Pathways 1-2.6 and 3-7.0 for the 2050s) Climate Suitability Maps for 499 Useful Tree Species for Tanzania (2025.01) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14587104

Kindt, R., & Abiyu, A. (2025). Baseline and Future (Shared Socio-economic Pathways 1-2.6 and 3-7.0 for the 2050s) Climate Suitability Maps for 459 Useful Tree Species for Uganda (2025.01) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14586965

Borsch, T., Berendsohn, W., Dalcin, E., Delmas, M., Demissew, S., Elliott, A., Fritsch, P., Fuchs, A., Geltman, D., Güner, A., Haevermans, T., Knapp, S., le Roux, M.M., Loizeau, P.-A., Miller, C., Miller, J., Miller, J.T., Palese, R., Paton, A., Parnell, J., Pendry, C., Qin, H.-N., Sosa, V., Sosef, M., von Raab-Straube, E., Ranwashe, F., Raz, L., Salimov, R., Smets, E., Thiers, B., Thomas, W., Tulig, M., Ulate, W., Ung, V., Watson, M., Jackson, P.W. and Zamora, N. (2020), World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants. TAXON, 69: 1311-1341. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373

Kindt, R., Graudal, L., Lillesø, JP.B. et al. (2023). GlobalUsefulNativeTrees, a database documenting 14,014 tree species, supports synergies between biodiversity recovery and local livelihoods in landscape restoration. Sci Rep 13, 12640. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39552-1


 

Funding

The development of this archive was supported by the German International Climate Initiative (IKI) to the regional tree seed programme on The Right Tree for the Right Place for the Right Purpose in Africa.