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Final Report: Understanding the Links between Climate and Waterbirds across North America The global mean surface temperature increased 0.85°C during the period 1880 – 2012. Some climate models predict an additional warming of up 2 to 4 ◦ C over the next 100 years for the primary breeding grounds for North American ducks. Such an increase has been predicted to reduce mid - continent breeding duck populations by >70%. Managing continental duck populations in the face of climate change requires understanding how waterfowl have responded to historical spatio - temporal climatic variation. However, such responses to climate may be obscured by how ducks respond to variation in land cover. We estimated effects of climate on settlement patterns of breeding ducks in the Prairie - Parkland Region (PPR), boreal... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Report; Tags: Alaska CASC, Birds, Wildlife and Plants, adaptive management, agriculture, All tags... boreal forest, climate change, colonization, extinction, fire, occupancy models, prairie-parkland region, precipitation, temperature, tundra, Fewer tags Final Report: The Effects of Drought on Southwestern Pronghorns The responses of individual species to environmental changes can be manifested at multiple levels that range from individual-level (i.e., behavioral responses) to population-level (i.e., demographic) impacts. Major environmental changes that ultimately result in population level impacts are often first detected as individual-level responses. For example, herbivores respond to limited forage availability during drought periods by increasing the duration of foraging periods and expanding home range areas to compensate for the reduction in forage. However, if the individual-level responses are not sufficient to compensate for reduced forage availability, reduced survival and reproductive rates may result. We studied... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Report; Tags: American pronghorn, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Mammals, National CASC, All tags... Rio Grande cutthroat trout, Southwestern United States, Wildlife and Plants, desert bighorn sheep, drought, scaled quail, Fewer tags Final Report: The Effects of Drought on Desert Bighorn Sheep The responses of individual species to environmental changes can be manifested at multiple levels that range from individual-level (i.e., behavioral responses) to population-level (i.e., demographic) impacts. Major environmental changes that ultimately result in population level impacts are often first detected as individual-level responses. For example, herbivores respond to limited forage availability during drought periods by increasing the duration of foraging periods and expanding home range areas to compensate for the reduction in forage. However, if the individual-level responses are not sufficient to compensate for reduced forage availability, reduced survival and reproductive rates may result. We studied... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Report; Tags: American pronghorn, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Mammals, National CASC, All tags... Rio Grande cutthroat trout, Southwestern United States, Wildlife and Plants, desert bighorn sheep, drought, scaled quail, Fewer tags Final Report: The Effects of Drought on Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout: The Role of Stream Intermittency The responses of individual species to environmental changes can be manifested at multiple levels that range from individual-level (i.e., behavioral responses) to population-level (i.e., demographic) impacts. Major environmental changes that ultimately result in population level impacts are often first detected as individual-level responses. For example, herbivores respond to limited forage availability during drought periods by increasing the duration of foraging periods and expanding home range areas to compensate for the reduction in forage. However, if the individual-level responses are not sufficient to compensate for reduced forage availability, reduced survival and reproductive rates may result. We studied... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Report; Tags: American pronghorn, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Fish, National CASC, All tags... National CASC, Rio Grande cutthroat trout, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Southwestern United States, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, desert bighorn sheep, drought, scaled quail, Fewer tags Final Report: The Effects of Climate on Scaled Quail Reproduction and Survival The responses of individual species to environmental changes can be manifested at multiple levels that range from individual-level (i.e., behavioral responses) to population-level (i.e., demographic) impacts. Major environmental changes that ultimately result in population level impacts are often first detected as individual-level responses. For example, herbivores respond to limited forage availability during drought periods by increasing the duration of foraging periods and expanding home range areas to compensate for the reduction in forage. However, if the individual-level responses are not sufficient to compensate for reduced forage availability, reduced survival and reproductive rates may result. We studied... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Report; Tags: American pronghorn, Birds, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, National CASC, All tags... Rio Grande cutthroat trout, Southwestern United States, Wildlife and Plants, desert bighorn sheep, drought, scaled quail, 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 The Influence of the North Pacific Jet Stream on Future Fire in California In California, increased wildfire activity has been linked to decreasing snowpack and earlier snowmelt. Not only has this translated into a longer fire season, but reduced snowpack has cascading effects that impact streamflow, water supplies, agricultural productivity, and ecosystems. California receives 80% of its precipitation during the winter, so mountain snowpack plays a critical role in replenishing the state’s water supply. One factor that affects the amount of winter precipitation (and therefore snowpack) in California is the North Pacific Jet (NPJ)—a current of strong, high altitude winds that occur over the northern Pacific Ocean. Winters when the NPJ is located further north than normal are drier than... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Report; Tags: 2013, CA, CA-wide, CASC, Completed, All tags... Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Federal, Fire, Fire, Landscapes, Landscapes, NPJ, Other Landscapes, Other Landscapes, Other Water, Other Water, Plants, Plants, Projects by Region, Projects by Region, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Southwest, Southwest, Southwest, Southwest CASC, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, atmosphere, climatology, decadal, ecological response, ecosystem, ecosystem, fire, hydrological response, jet stream, management, north pacific jet, snowmelt, snowpack, tree ring reconstruction, tree rings, water, wildfire, wildfire, Fewer tags