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Final Report: Enabling Climate-Informed Planning and Decisions about Species of Conservation Concern in the North Central Region: Phase 2 Time and money for conservation are limited, so there is a need for responsible investments that embrace the realities of climate change. Droughts, floods, wildfires, hotter temperatures, declining snowpack, and changing streamflow are already significantly affecting wildlife and their habitats. In some cases, managers may decide to make strategic adjustments in how their actions are designed, where those actions are located, and when actions are needed most, in order to achieve management goals. A key part of making these forward-looking decisions is having access to climate information that can be integrated into an agency’s decision-making process. When science is conducted without an understanding of how that... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Report Tackling the Science Usability Gap in a Warming World: Co-Producing Useable Climate Information for Natural Resource Management Developing scientific information that is used in policy and practice has been a longstanding challenge in many sectors and disciplines, including climate change adaptation for natural resource management. One approach to address this problem encourages scientists and decision-makers to co-produce usable information collaboratively. Researchers have proposed general principles for climate science co-production, yet few studies have applied and evaluated these principles in practice. In this study, climate change researchers and natural resource managers co-produced climate-related knowledge that was directly relevant for on-going habitat management planning. We documented our methods and assessed how and to what... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation Seventy questions of importance to the conservation of the North Central grasslands of the United States in a changing climate Successful conservation of ecosystems in a changing climate requires actionable research that directly supports the rethinking and revising of management approaches to address changing risks and opportunities. As an important first step toward actionable research, we reviewed and synthesized grassland management-related documents to identify broadly shared questions that, if answered, would help to support collective conservation of the grasslands in the northern Great Plains of the United States in a changing climate. A Management Priorities Working Group reviewed 183 grassland-relevant management documents and identified 70 questions. Feedback was iteratively provided by a Climate and Ecology Working Group, an... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation Broadly Shared Information Needs Among Grassland Managers in the North Central Region The broadly shared information needs for grassland managers in the North Central region to meet conservation goals in a changing climate are presented and ranked as highly relevant, somewhat relevant, or not relevant for federal, state, tribal, and non-governmental grassland-managing entities. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Colorado, Grasslands, Information Needs, Kansas, Landscapes, All tags... Montana, Nebraska, North Central Region, North Dakota, Resource Managers, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wyoming, biota, Fewer tags Final Report: Climate, the Boreal Forest, and Moose: A Pilot Project for Scenario Planning to Inform Land and Wildlife Management Scenario planning is one decision support method that can help natural resource managers incorporate information about uncertain future changes in climate into management decisions. To provide a proof of concept of the value of scenario planning in helping managers prepare for climate change, we conducted a pilot scenario planning effort aimed at helping state agencies in the northeastern United States develop climate-informed moose management goals and actions. To encourage participation by wildlife managers, we provided several opportunities for them to learn about scenario planning and examples of its application in natural resource management. We shared this information via guidance documents on incorporating... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Forests, Landscapes, Mammals, National CASC, WCS, All tags... Wildlife and Plants, moose, moose management plan, Fewer tags Final Report: Integrating Climate Change Research and Planning to Inform Wildlife Conservation in the Boreal Forests of the Northeastern U.S. Northeastern boreal forests are an important habitat for many wildlife species, including migratory birds and moose. These animals play vital roles in the boreal forest ecosystem, are a source of pleasure for bird and wildlife watchers, and contribute to tourism revenue for many communities. However, moose and migratory birds are thought to be particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. For example, in New York’s Adirondack State Park, six species of boreal birds have shown population declines over the past ten years. Meanwhile, moose in many parts of the northeast are threatened by winter ticks that thrive in warmer climates and spread disease. Building upon earlier work related to climate impacts... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Birds, Forests, Landscapes, National CASC, Northern Boreal Forest, All tags... Wildlife and Plants, climate change, migratory birds, moose, northern New York, Fewer tags Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century THE RISING RISK OF DROUGHT. Droughts of the twenty-first century are characterized by hotter temperatures, longer duration, and greater spatial extent, and are increasingly exacerbated by human demands for water. This situation increases the vulnerability of ecosystems to drought, including a rise in drought-driven tree mortality globally (Allen et al. 2015) and anticipated ecosystem transformations from one state to another—for example, forest to a shrubland (Jiang et al. 2013). When a drought drives changes within ecosystems, there can be a ripple effect through human communities that depend on those ecosystems for critical goods and services (Millar and Stephenson 2015). For example, the “Millennium Drought”... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation Final Report for Adaptation Strategies in the Face of Climate-Driven Ecological Transformation: Case Study from Arctic Alaska As the globe continues to warm at increasingly dramatic rates, climate-sensitive ecosystems and the people that live in these environments are experiencing transformations in the conditions that support healthy species and human wellbeing. Nowhere is this more evident than in Alaska, which is warming at two to three times the global average rate, causing ecosystems to transition to new states. Arctic warming has already led to major consequences such as coastal erosion that has forced human communities to relocate, and summer sea ice loss that has pushed polar bears, walruses, and other species to adapt to a more terrestrial mode of living in closer proximity to human settlements and risking increased human-wildlife... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation