Tracking Landscape Change in the Central Valley

This project helps the Central Valley Joint Venture (CVJV) track gains and losses of key bird and waterfowl habitats at a landscape scale. This will allow the CVJV to effectively monitor and evaluate habitats essential to conservation planning for wildlife species. This work is important for identifying, assembling, and analyzing data for key habitats of concern and will provide a foundation for future monitoring.

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, Agricultural, CA, CA Central Valley, California Central Valley, All tags... California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Consevation design, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Data Management and Integration, Federal, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Private land owners, Project, Rice Field, Science Project, Wetland, birds, completed, conservation, environment, evapotranspiration, modeling, pacific flyway, precipitation, scenarios, shorebird, temperature, truemet, water deficit, waterfowl, Fewer tags

Avian demographic response to climate change: a multi-species and multi-landscape approach to synthesizing risk factors.

This project researched the expected variation in avian demographic responses to environmental change across a gradient of species and landscapes from the San Francisco Bay to the Central Valley of California. We used two avian taxa, waterfowl and songbirds, as case studies for the integration of long-term demographic data with climate change variables. For each taxon, we assessed and synthesized several demographic responses to climate change variables (i.e., precipitation and temperature) to explore the relationship between four large-scale climate indices and bird species arrival dates and nest survival. A web-based application provides natural resource managers with project results.

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, Applications and Tools, CA, CA Central Valley, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision Support, Decision support, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Marine, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, SF Bay/Delta, Science Project, Southwest CSC, Website, avian, birds, birds, completed, demographic responses, environment, information, precipitation, temperature, web-based, Fewer tags

Climate Change/Land Use Change Scenarios for Habitat Threat Assessments on California Rangelands

Why Rangelands: The Central Valley of California, the surrounding foothills and the interior Coast Range include over 18 million acres of grassland. Most of this land is privately owned and managed for livestock production. Because grasslands are found in some of California’s fastest-growing counties, they are severely threatened by land conversion and development. In addition climate change stresses grasslands by potentially changing water availability and species distributions.Maintaining a ranching landscape can greatly support biodiversity conservation in the California Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) region. In addition ranches generate multiple ecosystem services—defined as human benefits provided...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2011, 2012, 2013, Applications and Tools, CA, All tags... CA Central Valley, California Central Valley, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Coastal, Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, Decision support, Federal, Grassland, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Multiple, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, Rangeland, Science Project, Shrubland, Southwest CSC, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, acquisition, bcm, birds, c sequestration, carbon, chaparral, completed, conservation, corridor, decision support, downscale, economic, education, environment, fish, fore-sce, fragmentation, grazing, hotspots, invertebrates, land use change, landuse, livestock, management, map, model, multiple, oak woodland, oaks, on-line, on-line tool, outreach, rangelands, scenario, scenarios, stakeholder, stream, urbanization, water, web-based, workshop, Fewer tags

Decision Support for Adaptive Tidal Wetland Restoration and Management

To be successful, natural resource managers need to synthesize diverse information on the effects of management actions, climate change and other stressors on wildlife populations at appropriate scales. The project team developed a Decision Support Tool (DST) that integrates the results of multi-disciplinary, multi-taxa modeling allowing users to project outcomes of conservation actions, accounting for effects of climate change and other stressors. This DST builds on work to improve a sea level rise tool for adaptive tidal wetland restoration and management. The DST provides information on how restoration can increase population resilience and long-term persistence at multiple scales for multiple species throughout...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2012, Applications and Tools, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Data Management and Integration, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision support, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Regional & county planners, SF Bay/Delta, San Francisco Bay, Science Project, Southwest CSC, State agencies, Tidal, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Wetland, accretion, birds, completed, decision support tool, demography model, environment, gis, management, plants, restoration, sea level rise, sediment, slr, tidal, vulnerability, wetland, Fewer tags

Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Strategies for Focal Resources of the Sierra Nevada

This project supports a collaborative, multi-stakeholder effort led by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to develop a largescale vulnerability assessment and associated adaptation strategies for focal resources of the Sierra Nevada. The purpose of this effort is to provide information and tools for Forest Planning and management (e.g., NEPA analyses, Forest Plan revisions, Climate Scorecard) and other natural resource management (e.g., SWAP) and conservation efforts to prepare for climate change impacts in the Sierra Nevada. Specifically, our objectives are to: (1) assess the vulnerability of focal resources to climate change, (2) use spatial analysis and expert input to prioritize conservation areas or actions, and...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2012, 2013, Applications and Tools, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Decision Support, Decision support, Federal, Federal resource managers, Forest, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, Science Project, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, adaptation, assessment, assessment, assessment, assessment, briefing, completed, connectivity, conservation, database, environment, fire, invasive species, map, multiple, outreach, refugia, snowpack, stakeholder, tool, training, trees, usfs, vertebrates, vulnerability, workshop, Fewer tags

Incorporating the geography of climate change into conservation planning

This project is analyzing downscaled climate model data to assess the geography of climate change at scales relevant to actual conservation actions. This work analyzes the California Essential Habitat Connectivity products to determine which protected lands are most vulnerable and which of the proposed corridors would partially mitigate climate change threats.

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, Applications and Tools, CA, CA-wide, California, All tags... California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Conservation planning, Decision Support, Decision support, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Multiple, Project, Publication, Science Project, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, california essential habitat connectivity, cehc, completed, conservation planning, corridor, downscale, environment, model, multiple, vulnerability, Fewer tags