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Water is a key ecosystem service that provides life to vegetation, animals, and human communities. The distribution and flow of water on a landscape influences many ecological functions, such as the distribution and health of vegetation and soil development and function. However, the future of many important water resources remains uncertain. Reduced snowfall and snowpack, earlier spring runoff, increased winter streamflow and flooding, and decreased summer streamflow have all been identified as potential impacts to water resources due to climate change. These factors all influence the water balance in the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest (PCTR). Ensuring healthy flow and availability of water resources is...
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Tags: 2014,
Alaska,
Alaska CASC,
CASC,
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Other Water,
Other Water,
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Steep, mountainous watersheds, dramatic climate gradients, and tight links between the land and sea are common features of both the Pacific Islands and Southeast Alaska. In these "ridge-to-reef" and “icefield-to-ocean" ecosystems, environmental changes that occur at higher elevations have downstream impacts on the waters below. Today, these two ecosystems are undergoing changes in climate that are significantly impacting the terrestrial, freshwater, and coastal ecosystems that communities rely on for food, water, recreation, and tourism. For example, changing weather patterns are leading to more frequent and severe extreme storms, atmospheric rivers, droughts, and heat waves. Communities in both regions have deep...
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Tags: 2023,
Alaska,
Alaska CASC,
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Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Extreme Weather,
Extreme Weather,
Glaciers and Permafrost,
Glaciers and Permafrost,
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Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
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The Tongass National Forest has identified resources that are important to stakeholders and vulnerable to climate-related stressors. Cooperators will review an action plan and convene a workshop to be held in Southeast Alaska in 2016. The workshop will foster collaboration between scientists, managers, and stakeholders. Workshop goals include: sharing information about climate-related stressors and effects on NPLCC Priority Resources in the Tongass National Forest; developing strategic priorities for improving understanding, reducing risks, and increasing adaptive capacity and resilience; coordinating support for increasing knowledge and informing resource managers
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Tags: AK-0,
Alaska,
Anadromous fish,
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Climate Change,
Conservation Design,
Conservation Planning,
Federal resource managers,
Hydrologic regime shift,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
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NPLCC,
Priority A. Effects of hydrologic regime shifts,
Priority D. Hydrologic regime changes on anadromous fish,
Report,
State agencies,
Tongass Forest,
Tongass National Forest,
Training/Outreach/Workshop,
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aquatic resources,
climate change,
final,
hydrologic regime shifts,
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