The US Forest Service thinks a lot about what is going to happen to natural systems in response to climate change. The USFS Northern Research Station does a lot of this work. Of particular interest to us is the Climate Change Atlas for trees and birds. The tree data comes from the Forest Inventory Analysis, an inventory program that has a tree plot in every county in the eastern US (>100,000 plots!). The bird data is from the Breeding Bird Survey data. (Both of these data sets are available to you for projects.)
You also might be interested in some climate and land use change tools available on the USFS site. Check here for a listing of online tools, and here for a list of software. LANDIS and GIS-FIA might be particularly interesting.
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