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As the impacts of climate change amplify, understanding the consequences for wetlands will be critical for their sustainable management and conservation, particularly in arid regions such as the Columbia Plateau. The depressional wetlands in this region (wetlands located in topographic depressions where water can accumulate) are an important source of surface water during the summer months. However, their health depends directly on precipitation and evaporation, making them susceptible to changes in temperature and precipitation. Yet few tools for monitoring water movement patterns (hydrology) in and out of these landscapes currently exist, hindering efforts to model how they are changing. This project provided...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2015,
CASC,
Columbia Plateau,
Completed,
Data Visualization & Tools, All tags...
Data Visualization & Tools,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Extreme Weather,
Extreme Weather,
Northwest,
Northwest,
Northwest,
Northwest CASC,
Oregon,
Projects by Region,
Science Tools for Managers,
Science Tools for Managers,
Washington,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wetlands,
Wetlands,
climate change,
hydrologic dynamics,
wetlands, Fewer tags
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TASK: Identify both: (1) the special priority linkages from the statewide analysis, Columbia Plateau (as they are within Cascadia), and Bill Gaines’s forest level work within Cascadia. What patterns stood out for key linkages and fracture zones; and (2) the key landscape scale linkages to Cascadia from the statewide and Columbia Plateau that keep Cascadia connected to a regional network.
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This Addendum describes the decision-support products the Arid Lands Initiative has developed and is using to facilitate partners’ transition from landscape planning to taking coordinate action guided by shared priorities, as the ALI partners strive to achieve landscape-scale conservation in eastern Washington’s arid lands.
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