Frog to Forest Stewardship: Building Climate Resilience into Conservation
Dates
Publication Date
2023
Summary
This collaborative effort seeks conservation outcomes that address current and future threats to species’ persistence in the foothills in and around Yosemite NP. For instance, foothill yellow-legged frog and the western pond turtle have experienced significant population declines across the Southern extent of their respective historic range. Much of the decline is due to threats such as land use changes, changes in hydrology, competition and/or predation from introduced species, and disease [1;2]. While these threats already pose species conservation challenges at present, climate change will exasperate the risk to species’ persistence in this geography. To address both the current and future stressors to the foothill yellow-legged [...]
Summary
This collaborative effort seeks conservation outcomes that address current and future threats to species’ persistence in the foothills in and around Yosemite NP. For instance, foothill yellow-legged frog and the western pond turtle have experienced significant population declines across the Southern extent of their respective historic range. Much of the decline is due to threats such as land use changes, changes in hydrology, competition and/or predation from introduced species, and disease [1;2]. While these threats already pose species conservation challenges at present, climate change will exasperate the risk to species’ persistence in this geography. To address both the current and future stressors to the foothill yellow-legged frog population, specifically in the Sierra Nevada, this project aims to identify near term conservation strategies in the Southern Sierra Nevada that simultaneously lead to increased adaptive capacity to climate change impacts.