ABSTRACT: Planning conservation to address landscape and climate change has been impeded by the complexity of the decisions planners must make. To answer these questions in aquatic systems, the US Fish & Wildlife Service needs bring together the elements of conservation decisions into a framework that allows adaptive learning and strategic action. We will work with the US Fish & Wildlife Service Project Officer and aquatic conservation partners in the southeast to prototype an adaptive decision framework that incorporates potential future changes into current aquatic management decisions. We will build on ongoing efforts to identify stakeholders (a mix of planners, managers and researchers to represent the diversity of conservation [...]
