Assessing the Vulnerability of Vegetation to Future Climate in the North Central U.S.

Determining which species, habitats, or ecosystems are most vulnerable to climate change enables resource managers to better set priorities for conservation action. To address the need for information on vulnerability, this research project aimed to leverage the expertise of university partners to inform the North Central Climate Science Center on how to best assess the vulnerability of elements of biodiversity to climate and land use change in order to inform the development and implementation of management options. Outcomes from this activity were expected to include 1) a framework for modeling vegetation type and species response to climate and land use change, 2) an evaluation of existing alternative vegetation...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, CASC, Climate Change, Completed, North Central, All tags... North Central CASC, Plants, Plants, Projects by Region, Vulnerability Assessments, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags

Berry Risk Mapping & Modeling of Native & Exotic Defoliators in Alaska

A recent (2008-2012) outbreak of Geometrid moths has decimated subsistence berry harvest in South Central Alaska. This project will develop a risk model to predict where subsistence berry plants will be most resistant to Geometrid attack. The model will be used to identify areas where berry improvement silvicultural treatments are most likely to be successful.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, AK-1, AK-1, Academics & scientific researchers, Alaska, All tags... Alaska, Applications and Tools, Applications and Tools, Chugach, Chugach, Chugach, Chugach, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Disease, pest, and invasive species, Geometrid moth, Geometrid moth, Geometrid moth, Geometrid moth, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, Map, NPLCC, NPLCC, NPLCC, NPLCC, Nanwalek, Nanwalek, Nanwalek, Nanwalek, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Port Graham, Port Graham, Port Graham, Port Graham, Priority E. Invasive species, diseases, pests, Project, Report, Report, Risk modeling, Risk modeling, Risk modeling, Risk modeling, State agencies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological knowledge, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessments, Vulnerability Assessments, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, onGoing, Fewer tags

Combining demographic and genetic factors to assess population vulnerability in stream species

Abstract: Accelerating climate change and other cumulative stressors create an urgent need to understand the influence of environmental variation and landscape features on the connectivity and vulnerability of freshwater species. Here, we introduce a novel modeling framework for aquatic systems that integrates spatially-explicit, individual-based, demographic and genetic (demogenetic) assessments with environmental variables. To show its potential utility, we simulated a hypothetical network of 19 migratory riverine populations (e.g., salmonids) using a riverscape connectivity and demogenetic model (CDFISH). We assessed how stream resistance to movement -- a function of water temperature, fluvial distance, and...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Connectivity, Dispersal, Fish, Gene flow, Genetic diversity, All tags... Northwest CASC, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Salvelinus confluentus, Vulnerability Assessments, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, genetic differentiation, landscape genetics, population viability, risk maps, stream barrier, stream networks, Fewer tags