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(Part 1) Habitat management generates multi-scale heterogeneity of thermal habitat for a terrestrial ectotherm As climate change intensifies, there is a growing need to understand thermal properties of landscapes and their influence on wildlife. A key aspect of the thermal landscape is vegetation structure and composition. Management approaches can alter vegetation and consequently the thermal landscape, potentially resulting in underappreciated effects on wildlife habitat, including moderating effects of climate change. Management is applied over existing vegetation patterns on the landscape, and consideration of spatial scale can clarify these multi-scale effects on the thermal landscape. We examined effects of...
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Healthy wetlands provide buffers against drought, flooding, pollution, and other threats to humans and nature. Climate change imperils wetland health, including impacting the connections among wetlands that facilitate movements and prevent extinctions of wetland-dependent wildlife. One wildlife group of considerable conservation concern and vulnerability to climate induced wetland changes is migratory shorebirds (a diverse group that includes sandpipers and plovers). Many shorebirds undertake long-distance migrations and have experienced sharp population declines, partly from loss of migratory stopover sites. During stopovers, shorebirds are thought to need a regional network of wetlands, with connections among...
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