Many of the common tree species in the dry calcareous forest, woodland, and glade ecosystem are projected to increase through the end of the century.

Forest impact models project that eastern redcedar, white oak, and post oak will remain relatively stable or increase in suitable habitat, potential growth, and volume under both climate scenarios. White oak is long-lived and able to persist in the shaded understory until openings are naturally created in the canopy. Eastern redcedar, and to a lesser extent white oak, are dependent on disturbance and expected to benefit from soil moisture deficits, fire, and other disturbances. Chinkapin oak, eastern redbud, eastern hophornbeam, and shagbark hickory were modeled by only the Tree Atlas, and were similarly projected to increase in suitable habitat.