Climate based seed zones for Mexico: spatial grids to guide reforestation under observed and projected climate change

This database entry provides climate-based seed zone system for Mexico to address climate change observed over the last 30 years and projected climate change for the 2050s. The database corresponds to a journal publication by Castellanos-Acuña et al. (2018), available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11056-017-9620-6. This seed zone classification is based on bands of two climate variables that have often been shown to drive genetic adaptation of tree species: mean coldest month temperature (MCMT), and an aridity index (AHM). MCMT was divided into ten bands of 3°C intervals, with the limits of these bands being, temperatures below <2°C, 2-5°, 5-8°, 8-11°, 11-14°, 14-17°, 17-20°, 20-23°, 23-26°, >26°C. AHM was divided into seven bands with intervals that are approximately equal width under a log-transformation: <20, 20-30, 30-45, 45-65, 65-95, 95-140, and >140 °C/mm. The gridded files provided in this database entry, the classes are coded as integer numbers, with the last digit representing the AHM class (1-7) and the first or first and second digit representing the MCMT class (1-10).