The Conservation Biology Institute is developing a tool that managers in all watersheds of the Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative can use to project the effects of climate change on soil vulnerability conditions and help resource managers develop appropriate strategies to mitigate negative climate impacts.
Specifically, they will develop a spatially-explicit soil vulnerability index for the Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative that can be used to forecast short-term response of plants to current drought conditions and test a vegetation model of plant response to drought.
Conservation Biology Institute will use the soil vulnerability index to compare historical and future simulations of vegetation die-off to provide managers with some indication of how future vegetation shifts may increase soil vulnerability and affect available water resources.
FY2012The Conservation Biology Institute is developing a tool that managers in all watersheds of the Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative can use to project the effects of climate change on soil vulnerability conditions and help resource managers develop appropriate strategies to mitigate negative climate impacts.
Specifically, they will develop a spatially-explicit soil vulnerability index for the Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative that can be used to forecast short-term response of plants to current drought conditions and test a vegetation model of plant response to drought.
Conservation Biology Institute will use the soil vulnerability index to compare historical and future simulations of vegetation die-off to provide managers with some indication of how future vegetation shifts may increase soil vulnerability and affect available water resources.