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Projected and Historical Thornthwaite Moisture Index (MI) under IPSL-CM5A-MR GCM across North Central U.S. (1980-2099) Historical and projected climate data and water balance data under three GCMs (CNRM-CM5, CCSM4, and IPSL-CM5A-MR) from 1980 to 2099 was used to assess projected climate change impacts in North Central U.S. We obtained required data from MACA data (https://climate.northwestknowledge.net/MACA/). Historical time period ranges from 1980 to 2005, and projected time period ranges from 2071 to 2099. The climate data includes temperature and precipitation whereas water balance data includes Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) and Moisture Index (MI) estimated using Penman-Monteith and Thornthwaite methods defining as Penman PET, Penman MI, Thornthwaite PET and Thornthwaite MI. Both types of MI was estimated as a ratio of... Tags: Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes Historic and projected climate change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, GYE, Greater Yellowstone, North Central CASC, Plants, All tags... Science Tools For Managers, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Final Report: Foundational Science Area: Climate Adaptation Strategies for Wildlife and Habitats in the North Central U.S. In the previous first phase of the Impacts and Vulnerability project, we made substantial progress in assessing climate and land use change impacts across the NCCASC domain. These include: quantifying the rates of land use change in greater wildland ecosystems (GWEs), determining the extent of fragmentation in major ecosystems across GWEs, assessing climate change impacts on public, private, and tribal lands within GWEs, evaluating evaporative demands across hydroclimatic gradients of eight ecoregions across north central U.S., and predicting forest ecosystem responses to climate change. We found that rates of climate and land use change varied across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, as did the responses of... Tags: Forests, Greater Wildland Ecosystem, Landscapes, Mammals, North Central CASC, All tags... Other Landscapes, Wildlife and Plants, climate impacts, fragmentation in major ecosystems, hydroclimatic gradients, land use, Fewer tags Land use change and fragmentation of Theodore Roosevelt Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWE) using LANDFIRE data Fragmentation extent of six ecosystem types after European Settlement was analyzed using LANDFIRE data. The ecosystem types includes: Grassland, Shrubland, Conifer, Riparian, Hardwood and Sparse ecosystems. The land use change and fragmentation extents have been analyzed by delineating nine Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWEs) across NCCSC. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Fragmentation, Grasslands and Plains, Greater Wildland Ecosystem, LANDFIRE, Land Use Land Cover, All tags... Landscapes, NLCD, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Fewer tags Final Report: Assessing the Vulnerability of Vegetation to Future Climate in the North Central U.S. We assessed the vulnerability of ecological processes and vegetation to climate change in the US Northern Rocky Mountains with a focus on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. We found that climate has warmed substantially since 1900 while precipitation has increased. An index of aridity decreased until about 1980 and then increased slightly. Projected future climate indicates warming of about 3-7 degrees C by 2100 and a substantial increase in aridity, depending on climate scenario. Snow pack, soil moisture, runoff, and primary productivity are projected to decrease dramatically in summer under future climate scenarios, with snow pack and runoff declining annually. Habitat suitability for the four subalpine tree species... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, North Central CASC, Northern Rocky Mountains, Plants, Wildlife and Plants, All tags... montane meadow grasslands, prairie pothole ecosystems, sagebrush, tallgrass prairie, whitebark pine, Fewer tags Land use change and fragmentation of Great Sand Dunes Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWE) using LANDFIRE data Fragmentation extent of six ecosystem types after European Settlement was analyzed using LANDFIRE data. The ecosystem types includes: Grassland, Shrubland, Conifer, Riparian, Hardwood and Sparse ecosystems. The land use change and fragmentation extents have been analyzed by delineating nine Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWEs) across NCCSC. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Grasslands and Plains, Greater Wildland Ecosystem, Housing Density, LANDFIRE, Land Use Land Cover, All tags... Landscapes, NLCD, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Fewer tags Climate Change in Wildlands: Pioneering Approaches to Science and Management Abstract (from http://www.islandpress.org/book/climate-change-in-wildlands): Scientists have been warning for years that human activity is heating up the planet and climate change is under way. In the past century, global temperatures have risen an average of 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, a trend that is expected to only accelerate. But public sentiment has taken a long time to catch up, and we are only just beginning to acknowledge the serious effects this will have on all life on Earth. The federal government is crafting broad-scale strategies to protect wildland ecosystems from the worst effects of climate change. The challenge now is to get the latest science into the hands of resource managers entrusted with protecting... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, Management, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes Land use change and fragmentation of Rocky Mountain Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWE) using LANDFIRE data Fragmentation extent of six ecosystem types after European Settlement was analyzed using LANDFIRE data. The ecosystem types includes: Grassland, Shrubland, Conifer, Riparian, Hardwood and Sparse ecosystems. The land use change and fragmentation extents have been analyzed by delineating nine Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWEs) across NCCSC. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Fragmentation, Grasslands and Plains, Greater Wildland Ecosystem, LANDFIRE, Land Use Land Cover, All tags... Landscapes, NLCD, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Fewer tags Foundational Science Area: Assessing Climate Change Impacts to Wildlife and Habitats in the North Central U.S. In the North Central U.S., temperatures are rising and precipitation patterns are changing, with consequences ranging from more frequent and severe wildfires to prolonged drought to widespread forest pest outbreaks. As a result, land managers are becoming increasingly concerned about how climate change is affecting natural resources and the essential services they provide communities. The rates and ecological impacts of changing conditions vary across this diverse region, which stretches from the Great Plains to the High Rockies. The goal of this project was to understand how native grasslands, shrublands, and forests will respond to changing conditions. Researchers first modeled how these vegetation types have... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, CASC, Completed, Forests, Forests, All tags... Grasslands and Plains, Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, Landscapes, North Central, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Projects by Region, Fewer tags Land use change and fragmentation of Grand River Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWE) using LANDFIRE data Fragmentation extent of six ecosystem types after European Settlement was analyzed using LANDFIRE data. The ecosystem types includes: Grassland, Shrubland, Conifer, Riparian, Hardwood and Sparse ecosystems. The land use change and fragmentation extents have been analyzed by delineating nine Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWEs) across NCCSC. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Fragmentation, Grasslands and Plains, Greater Wildland Ecosystem, LANDFIRE, Land Use Land Cover, All tags... Landscapes, NLCD, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Fewer tags Putting climate adaptation on the map: developing spatial management strategies for whitebark pine in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Natural resource managers face the need to develop strategies to adapt to projected future climates. Few existing climate adaptation frameworks prescribe where to place management actions to be most effective under anticipated future climate conditions. We developed an approach to spatially allocate climate adaptation actions and applied the method to whitebark pine (WBP; Pinus albicaulis) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). WBP is expected to be vulnerable to climate-mediated shifts in suitable habitat, pests, pathogens, and fire. We worked with a team of biologists and managers to identify management actions aimed at mitigating climate impacts to WBP. Identified actions were spatially allocated across... Types: Report; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Greater Yellowstone, North Central CASC, Plants, Science Tools For Managers, All tags... Wildlife and Plants, climate adaptation, management, spatially explicit, whitebark pine, Fewer tags Final Report: Foundational Science Area: Assessing Climate Change Impacts to Wildlife and Habitats in the North Central U.S. Rates of climate and land use change vary across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains as do the responses of ecosystems to these changes. Knowledge of locations of rapid land use and climate change and changes in ecosystem services such as water runoff and ecological productivity are important for vulnerability assessment and crafting locally relevant adaptation strategies to cope with these changes. This project assessed the loss of public, private, and tribal lands due to ongoing land use intensifications and fragmentation extents across the NC CSC domain. In addition, the project evaluated how the climate, ecosystem processes, and vegetation have shifted over the past half century and how they are projected to... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Report; Tags: Adaptation, Grasslands and Plains, Great Plains, Landscapes, North Central CASC, All tags... Other Landscapes, Rocky Mountains, ecological productivity, land use, water runoff, Fewer tags Land use change and fragmentation of Bighorn Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWE) using LANDFIRE data Fragmentation extent of six ecosystem types after European Settlement was analyzed using LANDFIRE data. The ecosystem types includes: Grassland, Shrubland, Conifer, Riparian, Hardwood and Sparse ecosystems. The land use change and fragmentation extents have been analyzed by delineating nine Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWEs) across NCCSC. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Fragmentation, Grasslands and Plains, Greater Wildland Ecosystem, Housing Desnity, LANDFIRE, All tags... Land Use Land Cover, Landscapes, NLCD, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Fewer tags Land use change and habitat fragmentation of wildland ecosystems of the North Central United States Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Agriculture, GWE, Grasslands and Plains, LULC, Landscapes, All tags... Mountainous, NCCSC, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Protected areas, Fewer tags Land use change and fragmentation of Badland Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWE) using LANDFIRE data Fragmentation extent of six ecosystem types after European Settlement was analyzed using LANDFIRE data. The ecosystem types includes: Grassland, Shrubland, Conifer, Riparian, Hardwood and Sparse ecosystems. The land use change and fragmentation extents have been analyzed by delineating nine Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWEs) across NCCSC. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Fragmentation, Grasslands and Plains, Greater Wildland Ecosystem, Housing Desnity, LANDFIRE, All tags... Land Use Land Cover, Landscapes, NLCD, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Fewer tags Using custom scientific workflow software and GIS to inform protected area climate adaptation planning in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Abstract (from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954115001466): Anticipating the ecological effects of climate change to inform natural resource climate adaptation planning represents one of the primary challenges of contemporary conservation science. Species distribution models have become a widely used tool to generate first-pass estimates of climate change impacts to species probabilities of occurrence. There are a number of technical challenges to constructing species distribution models that can be alleviated by the use of scientific workflow software. These challenges include data integration, visualization of modeled predictor–response relationships, and ensuring that models are reproducible... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Adaptive Management, Climate change, Grasslands and Plains, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Landscapes, All tags... North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Species distribution model, Fewer tags Land use change and fragmentation of Yellowstone Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWE) using LANDFIRE data Fragmentation extent of six ecosystem types after European Settlement was analyzed using LANDFIRE data. The ecosystem types includes: Grassland, Shrubland, Conifer, Riparian, Hardwood and Sparse ecosystems. The land use change and fragmentation extents have been analyzed by delineating nine Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWEs) across NCCSC. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Fragmentation, Grasslands and Plains, Greater Wildland Ecosystem, LANDFIRE, Land Use Land Cover, All tags... Landscapes, NLCD, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Fewer tags Climate and water balance change among public, private, and tribal lands within Greater Wild land Ecosystems across North Central USA Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Forests, Grasslands and Plains, Growing season, Land allocation types, Landscapes, All tags... Mammals, Moisture index, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Tribal lands, Water balance, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Combining state-and-transition simulations and species distribution models to anticipate the effects of climate change Abstract (from http://www.aimspress.com/article/10.3934/environsci.2015.2.400): State-and-transition simulation models (STSMs) are known for their ability to explore the combined effects of multiple disturbances, ecological dynamics, and management actions on vegetation. However, integrating the additional impacts of climate change into STSMs remains a challenge. We address this challenge by combining an STSM with species distribution modeling (SDM). SDMs estimate the probability of occurrence of a given species based on observed presence and absence locations as well as environmental and climatic covariates. Thus, in order to account for changes in habitat suitability due to climate change, we used SDM to generate... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, Mountain pine beetle, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, All tags... STSM, VisTrails, Whitebark Pine, Fewer tags Land use change and fragmentation of Fort Peck Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWE) using LANDFIRE data Fragmentation extent of six ecosystem types after European Settlement was analyzed using LANDFIRE data. The ecosystem types includes: Grassland, Shrubland, Conifer, Riparian, Hardwood and Sparse ecosystems. The land use change and fragmentation extents have been analyzed by delineating nine Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWEs) across NCCSC. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Fragmentation, Grasslands and Plains, Greater Wildland Ecosystem, Housing Density, Land Use Land Cover, All tags... Landscapes, NLCD, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Fewer tags 1 2 »