Project Summary: Climate change planning for the Great Plains: Wildlife vulnerability assessment and potential for mitigation with grazing management

Summary of project, results, and discussion for the study completed by Steve Zack, Kevin Ellison, Molly Cross and Erika Rowland. Summary written by the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GP LCC).

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Final Report: Climate change planning for the Great Plains: Wildlife vulnerability assessment and potential for mitigation with grazing management

While we assessed the vulnerability of a number of different wildlife and plant species to climate change, none of those species exhibited high vulnerability to changes projected for the region and there was limited differentiation in vulnerability between the individual species. Given this shared level of vulnerability to climate change, we chose to focus our adaptation planning on grassland birds as they represent a large group with a diversity of habitat needs. These birds are obligate grassland wildlife species which have great potential to act as indicators for habitat quality since different species have distinct habitat structure needs. Participants in the adaptation planning workshop agreed that if the GP...

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