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Abstract: As the climate changes, human land use may impede species from tracking areas with suitable climates. Maintaining connectivity between areas of different temperatures could allow organisms to move along temperature gradients and allow species to continue to occupy the same temperature space as the climate warms. We used a coarse-filter approach to identify broad corridors for movement between areas where human influence is low while simultaneously routing the corridors along present-day spatial gradients of temperature. We modified a cost–distance algorithm to model these corridors and tested the model with data on current land-use and climate patterns in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The...
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Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: LCC Network Science Catalog,
Publication,
adaptation,
climatic gradients,
completed, All tags...
conservation planning,
corridors,
course-filter approach,
journal article,
reserve design, Fewer tags
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This project will apply the results of an on-going climate change vulnerability assessment to the management of two complex landscapes. The vulnerability assessment project team will work with mangers, land-owners, and conservation practitioners to explore 1) how downscaled climate datasets, modeled vegetation changes, and information on estimated species sensitivities can be used to develop climate change adaptation strategies, and 2) how model results and datasets can be made more useful for informing the management of species and landscapes. To accomplish these two goals, we will prepare datasets and model outputs for two landscapespotentially, the Pioneer Mountains-Craters of the Moon region in Idaho and the...
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Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Climate Change,
Columbia Basin,
Columbia Plateau,
Connectivity,
Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, All tags...
Federal resource managers,
Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes,
Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity,
Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances,
Greater Sage-Grouse,
ID-1,
ID-2,
ID-2,
ID-2,
ID-2,
Idaho,
Idaho,
Invasive Species,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Land Use Change,
Mule deer,
OR-2,
OR-2,
OR-2,
OR-2,
Oregon,
Oregon,
Oregon,
Oregon,
Oregon,
Pioneer Mountains-Craters of the Moon,
Policy makers & regulators,
Project,
Pronghorn,
Report,
Riparian Areas,
Rocky Mountain,
Sage Shrub/Grassland,
Sage-Steppe,
State agencies,
Vulnerability Assessment,
WA-3,
WA-3,
WA-3,
WA-3,
WA-4,
WA-4,
WA-4,
WA-4,
WA-5,
WA-5,
WA-5,
WA-5,
WA-8,
WA-8,
WA-8,
WA-8,
Washington,
Washington,
Washington,
Washington,
Washington,
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These data are the final landscape permeability data as described in the report "Conserving Nature's Stage: Identifying Resilient Terrestrial Landscapes in the Pacfic Northwest."Permeability refers to the connectivity of a focal cell to its ecological neighborhood when it is viewed as a source; in other words, it asks the question: “to what extent are ecological flows outward from that cell impeded or facilitated by the surrounding landscape?” Thus,permeability starts with a focal cell and looks at the resistance to ecological flow outward in all directions through the local neighborhood. As resistance increases, flow is impeded or stopped altogether. Areas of no resistance allow the flow to proceed until a user-specified...
Categories: Data;
Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service,
ArcGIS Service Definition,
Downloadable,
Map Service;
Tags: Ecologial Flows,
Landscape Resilience,
Pacific Northwest,
Terrestrial Landscape Permeability,
connectedness, All tags...
connectivity,
ecoregion,
environment,
landscape condition,
permeability, Fewer tags
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Managing for well-connected landscapes is a key strategy to enhance resilience and ensure the long-term viability of plant and animal populations. Connectivity conservation is also the single most frequently cited climate adaptation strategy (Heller & Zavaleta 2009); many species will require highly permeable, well-connected landscapes both to maintain dispersal and gene flow as vegetation patterns and disturbance regimes change and to allow adaptive range shifts. Despite these needs, only a handful of regional conservation planning efforts have included connectivity. Moreover, despite numerous calls to increase connectivity across climatic gradients to accommodate climate-drive range shifts, there has been a lack...
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