Risk assessment in the face of a changing environment: gypsy moth and climate change in Utah.

The importance of efficaciously assessing the risk for introduction and establishment of pest species is an increasingly important ecological and economic issue. Evaluation of climate is fundamental to determining the potential success of an introduced or invasive insect pest. However, evaluating climatic suitability poses substantial difficulties; climate can be measured and assessed in a bewildering array of ways. Some physiological filter, in essence a lens that focuses climate through the requirements and constraints of a potential pest introduction, is required. Difficulties in assessing climate suitability are further exacerbated by the effects of climate change. Gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.) is an exotic,...

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Disturbance, energy, climate partitions, cultivars and species habitat data for the Colorado Plateau and environs

These data were compiled to support and inform the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program and to guide future management action when selecting regions to collect and increase seed for native plant materials development. The objective of our study was to develop geospatial datasets to aid land managers and restoration practitioners in identifying areas that will need to be restored in the future (currently disturbed) as well as areas to source new native plant materials for propagation with increased climate similarity to these areas across the Colorado Plateau, Arizona/New Mexico Mountains, and Arizona/New Mexico Plateaus. These data represent species distribution models for 12 high priority...

Tags: Achnatherum hymenoides, Arizona, Arizona/New Mexico Mountains, Arizona/New Mexico Plateaus, Astragalus lonchocarpus, All tags... Botany, Bouteloua gracilis, Cleome lutea, Cleome serrulata, Climatology, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Elymus elymoides, Four Corners Region, Geography, Heliomeris multiflora, Heterotheca villosa, Information Sciences, Intermountain Region, Intermountain West, Machaeranthera canescens, New Mexico, Pleuraphis jamesii, Southwest, Sphaeralcea parvifolia, Sporobolous cryptandrus, US Southwest, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, bioclimatic variables, biodiversity, biogeography, bioremediation, biota, climate change, climate partitioning models, climate similarity, climatic suitability, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, coal mine, data release, disturbance data, disturbed areas, ecological processes, energy production, energy resources, fires, gas well, germplasms, grazing, habitat alteration and disturbance, landscape level disturbances, modeling, native plant material, native plant material suitability, native plant restoration, native species, natural gas pipeline, natural gas resources, natural resource management, oil well, plant species, plants (organisms), priority restoration species, restoration, seed collection, seed sourcing, source locations, species distribution models, species habitat, species occurrence data, specimen collecting, suitable habitat, wildfires, Fewer tags