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Kimberly Terrell: Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
by Web Editor — published Sep 13, 2013 — last modified Feb 17, 2021 06:22 PM — filed under: , ,
Kimberly Terrell describes her work studying the biological constraints of salamanders to adjust to climate change and how the regional nature of the LCC can ensure efficiencies for conservation efforts as well as bring managers and researchers together to work towards common conservation goals.
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File RFA 6 - Understanding Land Use and Climate Change in the Appalachian Landscape - Word Doc
by Web Editor — published Mar 01, 2012 — last modified Aug 27, 2013 09:54 AM — filed under:
The APLCC intends to understand and address major environmental and human-related vulnerabilities of species as it relates to climate change stressors and develop adaptation strategies in response to climate change. This project will identify species and habitats vulnerable to climate change impacts, and describe vulnerabilities in sufficient detail to inform conservation partners who can then plan adaptive management responses, and compile a tabular, geo-referenced database for the Appalachian LCC website with a list of species/communities by taxonomic group/province identified as most vulnerable using the methodology determined to be of highest quality and best suited to the need of the Appalachians.
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Conservation in a Changing Climate - Website
by Web Editor — published Mar 23, 2012 — last modified Sep 28, 2012 04:24 PM — filed under: ,
The success of future conservation efforts will depend upon our abilities to understand and predict ecosystem changes and take action to help species adjust to a changing climate.
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File text/texmacs Responding to Climate Change on National Forests: A Guidebook for Developing Adaptation Options
by Web Editor — published Mar 24, 2012 — last modified Aug 26, 2013 10:12 AM — filed under: , ,
From the USDA Forest Service, comes a recently published guidebook for climate change adaptation in national forests. It provides a state-of-science summary of principles of adaptation, methods for vulnerability assessment, and tools and processes to facilitate the development of adaptation strategies and tactics. Distributed to all 176 national forest units, the guidebook is being used throughout the Forest Service and by other agencies to integrate climate change in sustainable resource management.
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File application/x-troff-ms Structural and Functional Loss in Restored Wetland Ecosystems
by Web Editor — published Mar 24, 2012 — filed under: ,
Wetlands, which include tropical mangroves and boreal peatlands, are among the most valuable ecosystems in the world because they provide critical ecosystem goods and services, such as carbon storage, biodiversity conservation, fish production, water purification, and erosion control. As global change accelerates the loss of wetlands, attempts are increasing to restore this fragile habitat and its associated functioning. There has been no global evaluation, however, of how effective such restoration efforts have been. Here, we present a meta-analysis of the biological structure (driven mostly by plant communities) and biogeochemical functioning (driven primarily by the storage of carbon in wetland soils) of 621 wetland sites.
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File Restoration of Ailing Wetlands
by Web Editor — published Mar 24, 2012 — filed under:
It is widely held that humankind’s destructive tendencies when exploiting natural resources leads to irreparable harm to the environment. Yet, this thinking runs counter to evidence that many ecological systems damaged by severe natural environmental disturbances (e.g., hurricanes) can restore themselves via processes of natural recovery. The emerging field of restoration ecology is capitalizing on the natural restorative tendencies of ecological systems to build a science of repairing the harm inflicted by humans on natural environment. Evidence for this, for example, comes from a new metaanalysis of 124 studies that synthesizes recovery of impacted wetlands worldwide. While it may take up to two human generations to see full recovery, there is promise, given human will, to restore many damaged wetlands worldwide
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File Building partnerships and establishing consensus on regional priorities across the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Cooperative - Final Report
by Web Editor — published Mar 24, 2012 — filed under: ,
As part of our project to identify the most climate vulnerable species in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative we have completed phase one of our project. This report summarizes our findings to date.We completed ten workshops across the region and have compiled a regional list of priority wildlife species for consideration in a climate vulnerability assessment. Included in the report are the top 30 species shared as priorities across the region, as well as the individual lists from each workshop.
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Multistability and Critical Thresholds of the Greenland Ice Sheet
by Web Editor — published Mar 25, 2012 — last modified Sep 06, 2012 04:48 PM — filed under:
Recent studies have focused on the short-term contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to sea-level rise, yet little is known about its long-term stability. The present best estimate of the threshold in global temperature rise leading to complete melting of the ice sheet is 3.1 °C (1.9–5.1 °C, 95% confidence interval) above the preindustrial climate, determined as the temperature for which the modeled surface mass balance of the present-day ice sheet turns negative. Here, using a fully coupled model, we show that this criterion systematically overestimates the temperature threshold and that the Greenland ice sheet is more sensitive to long-term climate change than previously thought.
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Climate Impacts on Bird and Plant Communities From Altered Animal – Plant Interactions
by Web Editor — published Mar 25, 2012 — last modified Sep 06, 2012 04:48 PM — filed under:
The contribution of climate change to declining populations of organisms remains a question of outstanding concern. Much attention to declining populations has focused on how changing climate drives phenological mismatches between animals and their food. Effects of climate on plant communities may provide an alternative, but particularly powerful, influence on animal populations because plants provide their habitats. Here, we show that abundances of deciduous trees and associated songbirds have declined with decreasing snowfall over 22 years of study in Montane, Arizona, USA.
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Threats to Freshwater Mussels and the Consequences for Ecosystems
by Web Editor — published Mar 25, 2012 — filed under: ,
Catastrophic decline in freshwater mussels may impact water quality and other species. These invertebrates play a crucial role in river ecosystems. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Caryn Vaugh studies mussels' role in their environment. Almost 70 percent of the species are considered threatened in some way. They're the most globally threatened freshwater organism there is.
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