Climate Change Effects on Pacific Northwest Ecosystems - NPLCC Webinar

Wetlands in the remote mountains of the western US have undergone two massive ecological “experiments” spanning the 20th century. Beginning in the late 1800s and expanding after World War II, fish and wildlife managers intentionally introduced millions of predatory trout (primarily Oncorhynchus spp) into fishless mountain ponds and lakes across the western states. These new top predators, which now occupy 95% of large mountain lakes, have limited the habitat distributions of native frogs, salamanders, and wetland invertebrates to smaller, more ephemeral ponds where trout do not survive. Now a second “experiment” – anthropogenic climate change – threatens to eliminate many of these ephemeral habitats and shorten...

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Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of Pacific Lamprey

The vulnerability of Pacific Lamprey to climate change will be evaluated by using an approach that relies on existing climate change model projections for stream conditions (i.e. hydrograph, temperatures, winter flood events) and lamprey sensitivity to environmental changes due to climate change.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, Climate Change, Oregon, Vulnerability assessment, Washington, All tags... 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, CA-2, California, Climate Change, Climate Change, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, LCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Oregon, Pacific Coast, Pacific Coast, Pacific Lamprey, Pacific Lamprey, Priority D. Hydrologic regime changes on anadromous fish, Project, Report, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability assessment, WA-1, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-5, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, Washington, onGoing, Fewer tags

Enhancing Outreach and Facilitating Climate-Smart Implementation of Strategic Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Priorities in the NPLCC

This project built on previous National Wildlife Federation work and literature reviews for the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NPLCC). The project report provided an assessment of climate change related challenges, needs, and opportunities to advance landscape-scale conservation, climate change adaptation, and sustainable resource management in the NPLCC.

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Final Report: Riparian Climate Corridors:Identifying Priority Areas for Conservation in a Changing Climate

Protecting and restoring ecological connectivity is a leading climate adaptation strategy forbiodiversity conservation (Heller & Zavaleta 2009, Lawler 2009), because species are expectedto have difficulty tracking shifting climates across fragmented landscapes (Thomas et al. 2004).Connectivity conservation is thus a primary focus of numerous large-scale climate adaptationinitiatives (e.g., U.S. Department of Interior’s Landscape Conservation Cooperatives), and a corestrategy of many federal climate adaptation plans (NPS 2010, USFS 2011, USFWS 2010). Thishas led to a growing need for approaches that identify priority areas for connectivityconservation in a changing climate.Riparian areas have been identified as key...

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, All tags... Hydrologic regime shift, LCC Network Science Catalog, Oregon, Priority A. Effects of hydrologic regime shifts, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-2, WA-6, Washington, adaptation strategies, climate change, completed, product, riparian areas, species sensitivities, vegetation changes, Fewer tags

Mapping Pacific Northwest Riparian Areas: Measuring Current Condition And Prioritizing For Climate Change Adaptation

This project produced a base layer of riparian area and condition prioritized riparian areas likely to increase biological resilience to climate change. This project acted as a pilot for developing riparian area data layers for the WGA Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool.

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Preserving Tribal Self-Determination and Knowledge Sovereignty While Expanding Use of Tribal Knowledge and Management in Off Reservation Lands in the Face of Climate Change

For Tribes where significant knowledge of traditional management practices is intact, but where all or part of ancestral lands are managed by other agencies, it is important that the sharing of TEK and implementation of management take place in a manner that promotes rather than hinders Tribal sovereignty and self-determination. This project will identify existing institutional and cultural barriers to the sharing of Tribal TEK and expansion of Tribal management and provide recommendations for their resolution at local, regional and national levels.

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Annotated Bibliography: Examples of Traditional Knowledges in Climate Research

This annotated bibliography is a supplement to the Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives and is intended to demonstrate the ways that existing is already considering TKs in law, policy and natural resource management. Additionally, this bibliography provides access to research which addresses ongoing issues surrounding the protection and use of TKs, including appropriation of Indigenous cultural and intellectual property, legal and policy hurdles that TK users and holders face in collaborating in an equitable manner with researchers, government agencies and others, and the development of research protocols to ensure just collaboration between TK holders and researchers....

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Indigenous Community Health and Climate Change: Integrating Biophysical and Social Science Indicators - Publication

The overarching goal of the project was to develop overlapping conceptual models of environmental and community health indicators in reference to climate forecasts. The sensitivity of species and habitats to climate were cross-walked with recently developed Coast Salish community health indicators (e.g. ceremonial use, knowledge exchange, and physiological well-being) in order to demonstrate how Indigenous Knowledge can be used in conjunction with established landscape-level conservation indicators (e.g. shellfish and water-quality) and employed to identify resource management priorities. While results are unique to study participants, no Indigenous community in the coastal Pacific Northwest is immune to the impending...

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North Pacific Forest Landscape Corridor and Connectivity Project: Assessing Landscape and Species Vulnerability

The North Pacific Forest Landscape Corridor and Connectivity Project utilized a landscape connectivity simulator (UNICOR) and a genetic simulation program (CDPOP) to model the functional (dispersal and genetic) connectivity in the North Pacific Landscape. The outputs from these programs indicated areas with high potential for landscape and genetic isolation and low probability of dispersal and colonization. In addition, this project was designed to provide spatially-explicit predictions of current and potential future patterns of fragmentation, prioritization of keystone corridors for protection and enhancement, and identification of places that may require habitat restoration or assisted migration to maintain viability....

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Climate Science Conference

The North Pacific LCC helped sponsor the Second Annual Pacific Northwest Climate Science Conference. This two day, regional conference included a panel discussion on federal climate science endeavors in the Pacific NW.

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Modeling Climate Impacts on the Hydrology of Pacific Northwest Montane Wetland Ecosystems

This project developed hydrologic projections for diverse wetland habitats (e.g. forest wetlands, wet meadows, small ponds, and riparian wetlands) in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) for the 2020s, 2040s, and 2080s, which can be used to support ecological and landscape-based vulnerability assessments and climate change adaptation planning. The project leveraged existing downscaled climate model scenarios and associated hydrologic datasets developed under separate funding and extended them to examine changes in aquatic habitat.Products developed in this research include new hydroclimatic datasets for assessing changes in the hydroperiod of PNW wetlands. These products are useful to land managers in forecasting ecosystem...

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Amphibians in the climate vise: loss and restoration of resilience of montane wetland ecosystems in the western US - Journal Article

Wetlands in the remote mountains of the western US have undergone two massive ecological “experiments” spanning the 20th century. Beginning in the late 1800s and expanding after World War II, fish and wildlife managers intentionally introduced millions of predatory trout (primarily Oncorhynchus spp) into fishless mountain ponds and lakes across the western states. These new top predators, which now occupy 95% of large mountain lakes, have limited the habitat distributions of native frogs, salamanders, and wetland invertebrates to smaller, more ephemeral ponds where trout do not survive. Now a second “experiment” – anthropogenic climate change – threatens to eliminate many of these ephemeral habitats and shorten...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Hydrologic projections, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, Pacific Northwest, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Pre-Strategy, 2013, Publication, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-6, WA-8, Washington, amphibians, climate change, climate change, completed, montane wetland ecosystems, product, restoration, wetland habitats, wetlands, Fewer tags

Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Pacific Lamprey and Pacific Eulachon, GIS Data Sets

For hundreds of years, Pacific lamprey and Pacific eulachon have been important traditional foods for Native American tribes of the Columbia River Basin and coastal areas of Oregon and Washington. These fish have large ranges – spending part of their lives in the ocean and part in freshwater streams – and they require specific environmental conditions to survive, migrate, and reproduce. For these reasons, Pacific lamprey and Pacific eulachon are likely threatened by a variety of climate change impacts to both their ocean and freshwater habitats. However, to date, little research has explored these impacts, despite the importance of these species to tribal communities.This project will evaluate the effects of future...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Climate Change, Climate Change, Columbia River Basin, Conservation Planning, All tags... Eulachon, Federal resource managers, Hydrologic regime shift, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Oregon, Pacific Eulachon, Pacific Lamprey, Pacific Lamprey, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Priority D. Hydrologic regime changes on anadromous fish, Surface Sea Temperature, Traditional Ecological knowledge, Tribes, WA-1, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-5, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, Washington, climate change, completed, product, Fewer tags

Final Report: Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Pacific Lamprey and Pacific Eulachon

For hundreds of years, Pacific lamprey and Pacific eulachon have been important traditional foods for Native American tribes of the Columbia River Basin and coastal areas of Oregon and Washington. These fish have large ranges – spending part of their lives in the ocean and part in freshwater streams – and they require specific environmental conditions to survive, migrate, and reproduce. For these reasons, Pacific lamprey and Pacific eulachon are likely threatened by a variety of climate change impacts to both their ocean and freshwater habitats. However, to date, little research has explored these impacts, despite the importance of these species to tribal communities.This project will evaluate the effects of future...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Climate Change, Columbia River Basin, Conservation Planning, Eulachon, All tags... Federal resource managers, Hydrologic regime shift, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Oregon, Pacific Lamprey, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Priority D. Hydrologic regime changes on anadromous fish, Surface Sea Temperature, Traditional Ecological knowledge, Tribes, WA-1, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-5, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, Washington, climate change, completed, product, Fewer tags

Cross-boundary Planning for Resilience and Restoration of Endangered Oak Savannah and Coastal Douglas-fir Forest Ecosystems

This project aims to support dry forest and savannah habitats in The Georgia Basin. Management objectives are to synthesize existing data into GIS tools that will prioritize land acquisition and conservation investment. These tools will be used throughout British Columbia, Washington & Oregon to facilitate cross-boundary planning for the endangered forest and Savannah habitat.Project Objectives: a) synthesize existing regional models of invasive/native species distribution and terrestrial ecosystem mapping, forest age and climate change to deliver GIS tools to prioritize land acquisition and conservation investment throughout the Georgia Basin; b) integrate those tools with US partners to facilitate cross-boundary...

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The cold-water climate shield: delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st century - Publication

Existing stream temperature data will be compiled from numerous federal, state, tribal, and private sources to develop an integrated regional database. Spatial statistical models for river networks will be applied to these data to develop an accurate model that predicts stream temperature for all fish-bearing streams in the US portion of the NPLCC. Differences between model outputs for historic and future climate scenarios will be used to assess spatial variation in the vulnerability of sensitive fish species across the NPLCC.

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, California, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Data Management and Integration, All tags... Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Hydrologic regime shift, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, NorWest, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Oregon, Priority D. Hydrologic regime changes on anadromous fish, Publication, State agencies, Stream temperature, WA-1, WA-10, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-5, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, WA-9, Washington, climate change, completed, product, stream network models, temperature model, Fewer tags

Create a Climate-Informed Habitat Conservation Plan

The Services goal with this project is to bridge the gap between guidance documents and field staff who develop Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs). Results from this project are expected to serve as a model for national-level guidance and practice for incorporating climate change information into HCPs.FY2014Cofunded with the Great Basin LCC PR 0040166614

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Product: Pacific Northwest Forest Soils, Creating a Soil Vulnerability Index to Identify Drought Sensitive Areas - Spatial Data

This project developed a soil vulnerability index and map indicating where forest cover will be most affected by climate change. Using this map, researchers developed a greater understanding of potential changes in soil moisture and temperature regimes under future climate conditions. They then evaluated how this information could be used to improve vegetation models across the landscape. They compared the results of different modeling approaches to the soil vulnerability map, synthesized the state of knowledge and uncertainty, and introduced management implications for action.The following data sets are included:Soil accumulations for the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative- northern California, USASoil...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AK, AK-1, Academics & scientific researchers, B.C., CA, All tags... CA-2, Conservation Planning, Data, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, OR-1, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Priority B. Changes in air temperature and precipitation on forests, Regional & county planners, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-10, WA-2, WA-3, WA-6, WA-7, WA-9, WA. OR, climate change, completed, product, soils, vegetation model, Fewer tags

Spatial Datasets: Riparian Climate Corridors:Identifying Priority Areas for Conservation in a Changing Climate

This includes the following data sets:Pacific Northwest Riparian Climate Corridors: scores attributed to stream lines Pacific Northwest Riparian Climate Corridors: HUC6 Scores by Omernik Ecoregions Pacific Northwest Riparian Climate Corridors: scores attributed to HUC-6 watersheds Potential Riparian Areas in the Pacific Northwest Riparian Mapping Project - Index averaged to HUC 6Protecting and restoring ecological connectivity is a leading climate adaptation strategy forbiodiversity conservation (Heller & Zavaleta 2009, Lawler 2009), because species are expectedto have difficulty tracking shifting climates across fragmented landscapes (Thomas et al. 2004).Connectivity conservation is thus a primary focus of numerous...

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Data.gov North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Federal resource managers, Hydrologic regime shift, LCC Network Science Catalog, Oregon, Priority A. Effects of hydrologic regime shifts, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-2, WA-6, Washington, accepted, adaptation strategies, climate change, completed, final, product, riparian areas, species sensitivities, vegetation changes, Fewer tags

Yellow-cedar decline and recovery: Climate modeling and data assimilation

Background: Yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) is an economically and culturally important tree of the North Pacific coastal rainforest, ranging from northern California through Southeast Alaska. The species has been in decline for many decades, particularly in the northern portion of its range (Southeast Alaska and coastal British Columbia), and is currently under consideration for listing as Threatened or Endangered. Previous work has delineated locations of yellow-cedar stands across the species range, and modeled geophysical features associated with presence of the tree.Purpose: The purpose of this project is to support refinement of a range-wide analysis of bioclimatic factors that support healthy vs....

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AK-1, Academics & scientific researchers, Alaska, BIOSPHERICINDICATORS, British Columbia, All tags... CA-1, CA-2, CA-3, Callitropsis nootkatensis, DYNAMIC VEGETATION/ECOSYSTEM MODELS, Decision Support, EVERGREEN VEGETATION, FORESTS, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Pacific Northwest, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, RANGE CHANGES, SPECIES MIGRATION, TEMPERATE CONIFEROUS FOREST, TEMPERATE RAINFOREST, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, WA-9, biota, climate change, environment, onGoing, yellow-cedar, Fewer tags