Cumberland - Southern Appalachian Climate Change Vulnerability Species Assessments

These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the southeastern portion of the LCC, covering the area from southern West Virginia, south to Alabama, west to eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. Hyperlinks to additional information are separated into two additional spreadsheets, one for aquatic and subterranean, and another for terrestrial species.

Categories: Data; Tags: Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, environment

Developing a next-generation Climate Change Vulnerability Index in support of climate-informed natural-resource management

Climate change threatens plants and animals across the US, making it important to have tools that can efficiently assess species’ vulnerabilities. In this project, CASC scientists and NatureServe are collaborating to update a popular Climate Change Vulnerability Index to include the latest scientific data, improved metrics, and new user-friendly technology. The tool will help state biologists and scientists prioritize conservation efforts, and in time for preparing updates to State Wildlife Action Plans that are due by 2025. Climate change is impacting our nation’s plants and animals. To take preventative actions, public land managers need to know which species are most threatened, and how. In other words, biologists...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2023, Birds, Birds, CASC, Data Visualization & Tools, All tags... Data Visualization & Tools, Fish, Fish, Mammals, Mammals, Midwest CASC, North Central CASC, Northeast CASC, Northwest, Northwest CASC, Other Wildlife, Other Wildlife, Plants, Plants, Projects by Region, Sate Wildlife Action Plans, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, South Central CASC, Southeast CASC, Southwest CASC, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, adaptive capacity, exposure, sensitivity, vulnerability, Fewer tags

Evaluating Species’ Adaptive Capacity in a Changing Climate: Applications to Natural-Resource Management in the Northwestern U.S.

Natural resource managers are confronted with the pressing challenge to develop conservation plans that address complex ecological and societal needs against the backdrop of a rapidly changing climate. Climate change vulnerability assessments (CCVAs) provide valuable information that helps guide management and conservation actions in this regard. An essential component to CCVAs is understanding adaptive capacity, or the ability of a species to cope with or adjust to climate change. However, adaptive capacity is the least understood and evaluated component of CCVAs. This is largely due to a fundamental need for guidance on how to assess adaptive capacity and incorporate this information into conservation planning...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2019, Birds, Birds, CASC, Data Visualization & Tools, All tags... Data Visualization & Tools, Fish, Fish, Forests, Mammals, Mammals, Northwest, Northwest CASC, Northwest Forest Plan, Other Wildlife, Other Wildlife, Plants, Plants, Projects by Region, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, adaptive capacity, at-risk species, fish, natural-resource management, vulnerability, wildlife, Fewer tags

Central Appalachian Climate Change Vulnerability Species Assessments

These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the northern-most portion of the LCC, covering the area from New York south to West Virginia and Virginia, west to Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.

Categories: Data; Tags: Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, environment

Interior Low Plateau Climate Change Vulnerability Species Assessments

These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the western portion of the LCC, covering the area from Western Kentucky, northeastern Alabama and western Tennessee west to southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois.

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Persist in place or shift in space? Evaluating the adaptive capacity of species to climate change

Abstract (from Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment): Assessing the vulnerability of species to climate change serves as the basis for climate-adaptation planning and climate-smart conservation, and typically involves an evaluation of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity (AC). AC is a species’ ability to cope with or adjust to changing climatic conditions, and is the least understood and most inconsistently applied of these three factors. We propose an attribute-based framework for evaluating the AC of species, identifying two general classes of adaptive responses: “persist in place” and “shift in space”. Persist-in-place attributes enable species to survive in situ, whereas the shift-in-space response...

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Alpine Bumble Bee

Assessing Vulnerability of Species and Habitats to Large-scale Impacts

Future climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies will be dependent on the best available projections of how the regional climate will change and the impacts those changes will have on the region’s natural and cultural resources. Understanding the vulnerability of various species and habitats to climate change within the Appalachian LCC is of critical importance for making effective conservation decisions. The AppLCC funded a Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment research project that addresses several factors: 1) how the Cooperative should acquire information about the climate vulnerability of Appalachian species and habitats to develop vulnerability assessments for a suite of key species and habitats...

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Species and Habitat Vulnerability Assessments of Appalachian Species By County

The Appalachian region is rich in biodiversity that is highly threatened by energy production, development, and a host of other factors. Large-scale impacts such as climate change will play out within this context, affecting habitats and species in different ways. Understanding the vulnerability of various species and habitats within the Appalachian LCC to such changes is of critical importance. Identifying the steps needed to acquire vulnerability information and then using this information to inform adaptation and mitigation strategies is a major research priority of the LCC.The Appalachian LCC provided a grant to NatureServe to conduct critical vulnerability assessments. Researchers first convened a panel of...

Categories: Data; Tags: Actaea podocarpa, Acumintum, Alabama Snow-wreath, Alabama warbonnet, Appalachian, All tags... Appalachian tiger beetle, Arabis georgiana, Astragalus tennesseensis, Baltimore checkerspot, Baptisia australis, Blue Ridge St. Johnswort, Blue wild indigo, Bluebead, Bog Jacob's Ladder, Bouteloua curtipendula, Box huckleberry, Buckleya distichophylla, Carolina hemlock, Carya carolinae septentrionalis, Castilleja coccinea, Catocala marmorata, Cemophora coccinea, Cheat Mountain Salamander, Cicindela ancocisconensis, Cladrastis kentuckea, Clintonia borealis, Complete, Counties, Cymophyllus fraserianus, Dalea foliosa, Data, Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Datasets/Database, Desmognathus imitator, Desmognathus santeetlah, Desmognathus wrighti, Diana fritillary, Eastern Harvest Mouse, Echinacea laevigata, Eggert's sunflower, Eriogonum allenii, Euphydryas phaeton, Eurybia saxicastelli, Fraser's sedge, Gaylussacia brachycera, Georgia Rock Cress, Helenium virginicum, Helianthus eggertii, Helonias bullata, Hypericum mitchellianum, Imitator salamander, Jamesianthus alabamensis, LCC Network Science Catalog, Largeleaf grass-of-parnassus, Leafy prairy clover, Leiophyllum buxifolium, Marbled underwing, Mountain bugbane, Neviusia alabamensis, Northern Scarletsnake, Parnassia grandifolia, Peaks of Otter Salamander, Piratebush, Plethodon hubrichti, Plethodon netting, Polemonium vanbruntiae, Puerto Rico, Reithrodontomys humulis, Rockcastle wood-aster, Royal catchfly, Sand-myrtle, Santeetlah Dusky salamander, Scarlet Indian Paintbrush, Shale barren buckwheat, Sideoats gramma, Silene regia, Smooth purple cone flower, Southern Pygmy salamander, Southern Shagbark Hickory, Speyaria diana, Stellaria fontinalis, Swamp Pink, Tennessee Yellow-eyed grass, Tennessee milkvetch, Tsuga caroliniana, U.S. Counties, United States, Vaccinium myrtilloides, Velvetleaf blueberry, Virginia Sneezeweed, Vulnerability Assessment, Water stitchwort, Xyris tennesseensis, Yellow-wood, area, assessments, biota, boundaries, demographics, detail, farming, habitat, households, polygon, population, society, species, vulnerability, Fewer tags

Red-eyed Leaf Frog