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This webinar was conducted on April 16, 2015. Reducing coral reef vulnerability to climate change requires that managers understand and support the natural resilience of coral reefs. To assist these managers, a team of researchers, supported by the Pacific Islands Climate Science Center (PI CSC) undertook a project to: 1) assess ecological resilience in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), which is in the west Pacific near Guam, and 2) collaboratively develop a decision-support framework with local management partners for resilience-based management. The team used an approach that included surveys of 78 sites along reefs surrounding the most populated islands in CNMI (Saipan, Tinian/Aguijan,...
Anthropogenic climate change is rapidly altering aquatic ecosystems across the Rocky Mountain West and may detrimentally impact populations of sensitive species that are often the focus of conservation efforts. The objective of this report is to synthesize a growing literature on these topics to address the following questions: (1) What is changing in climate and related physical/hydrological processes that may influence aquatic species and their habitats? (2) What are the implications for fish populations, aquatic communities, and related conservation values? (3) What can we do about it? In many instances, proactive efforts may help populations adapt to climate change; but elsewhere, transitions of aquatic ecosystems...
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Monitoring shoreline change is of interest in many coastal areas because it enables quantification of land loss over time. Evolution of shoreline position is determined by the balance between erosion and accretion along the coast. In the case of salt marshes, erosion along the water boundary causes a loss of ecosystem services, such as habitat provision, carbon storage, and wave attenuation. In terms of vulnerability, higher shoreline erosion rates indicate higher vulnerability. This dataset displays shoreline change rates at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, USA. Shoreline change rates are based on...
Exposure (vulnerability) index for the future time period (2041-2060) representing projected climate conditions from the Meterological Research Institute's Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model (MRI-CGCM3) and the rcp45 emissions scenario. The exposure model uses LANDFIRE vegetation data and Worldclim climate data .The raster values represent exposure scores for the corresponding vegetation type. The modeled vegetation types can be spatially associated with the exposure values by overlaying them with the "landfire_veg_sw_300m.tif" raster.Exposure values represent where the location falls in climate space relative to its recent historical distribution:5 (core 5% of historical climate space); 10 (5 -...
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An estimated value for the ability of managers to dirct actions to protect, restore, or mitigate species and habitats. We recognize that our preliminary estimates are arbitrary and fairly approximate, but argue that making these explicit within a framework will enable stakeholders and managers to conduct subsequent analyses to better support their decision making.
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This dataset depicts riparian vegetation in the valley bottoms at 10-meter resolution for the Green River Basin Landscape Conservation Design (GRB LCD) project area covering portions of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. Values are continuous and represent the portion of each 10-meter pixel comprised by woody riparian vegetation.
In the Pacific Northwest, coastal wetlands support a wealth of ecosystem services including habitat provision for wildlife and fisheries and flood protection. The tidal marshes, mudflats, and shallow bays of coastal estuaries link marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats and provide economic and recreational benefits to local communities. Climate change effects such as sea-level rise are currently altering these habitats, but we know little about how these areas will change over the next 50-100 years. Our study examined the effects of sea-level rise on nine tidal marshes in Washington and Oregon, with the goal of providing scientific data to support future coastal planning and conservation. We compiled physical...
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El Programa de Ordenamiento Ecológico General del Territorio (POEGT) es un instrumento de política pública sustentado en la Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y la protección Ambiental (LGEEPA) y en su Reglamento en materia de Ordenamiento Ecológico. Es de observancia obligatoria en todo el territorio nacional y tiene como propósito vincular las acciones y programas de la Administración Pública Federal que deberán observar la variable ambiental en términos de la Ley de Planeación. Al Gobierno Federal, a través de la SEMARNAT, le corresponde establecer las bases para que las dependencias y entidades de la APF formulen e instrumenten sus programas sectoriales con base en la aptitud territorial, las tendencias de...
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Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using Landsat 8 satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of 1) developed, 2) vegetated, 3) unvegetated fractional covers and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the years 2014-2018. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated fractional cover...
Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using Landsat 8 satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of 1) developed, 2) vegetated, 3) unvegetated fractional covers and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the years 2014-2018. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated fractional cover...
map background search result map search result map Lucy's Warbler: 2090 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Lucy's Warbler: 2030 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Long-legged Bat: 2030 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Long-legged Bat: 2060 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Long-legged Bat: 2090 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models American Bullfrog: 2060 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Northern Leopard Frog: 2060 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Southwestern Willow Flycatcher: 2030 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Yellow-billed Cuckoo: 2030 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse: 2030 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Adaptive Capacity, Preliminary Programa de Ordenamiento Ecológico General del Territorio (POEGT) Shoreline change rates in salt marsh units in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey Riparian vegetation within valley bottoms of the Green River Basin Derived from 2014 to 2015 NAIP Imagery Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio in coastal wetlands along the U.S. Pacific Coast (16-bit GeoTIFF) Shoreline change rates in salt marsh units in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey Long-legged Bat: 2030 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Long-legged Bat: 2060 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Long-legged Bat: 2090 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Lucy's Warbler: 2090 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Lucy's Warbler: 2030 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models American Bullfrog: 2060 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Northern Leopard Frog: 2060 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Southwestern Willow Flycatcher: 2030 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Yellow-billed Cuckoo: 2030 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse: 2030 Habitat Suitability Consensus of All Models Riparian vegetation within valley bottoms of the Green River Basin Derived from 2014 to 2015 NAIP Imagery Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio in coastal wetlands along the U.S. Pacific Coast (16-bit GeoTIFF) Adaptive Capacity, Preliminary Programa de Ordenamiento Ecológico General del Territorio (POEGT)