Communicating stream fish vulnerability to climate change
We will develop a vulnerability assessment R Shiny web application and present to stakeholders. The stakeholder feedback will be summarized into a one page ‘lessons learned’ document that will assist researchers in designing effective climate change visualizations and an R markdown ‘quick start’ guide on R Shiny applications.
Stream fishes provide many ecosystem services to humans (e.g., sustenance, recreation, ecosystem health indicators) but these taxa are at high risk from climate change impacts. Vulnerability assessments are a quantitative method that can inform management decisions and climate adaptation plans for imperiled taxa. We propose to develop a web application to communicate results of a vulnerability assessment for Chesapeake Bay watershed stream fishes. Broad dissemination of vulnerability assessment results in the form of easily interpretable web applications is important to communicate ecological risks of climate change to the public and to inform stakeholders of scientific findings. The application will be presented to stakeholders for feedback on assessment results and application design. Stakeholder feedback will be distributed to the CDI community in the form of digestible recommendations to improve the interpretability and functionality of web applications to stakeholders and a quick start guide for R Shiny application development and deployment.
We will develop a vulnerability assessment R Shiny web application and present to stakeholders. The stakeholder feedback will be summarized into a one page ‘lessons learned’ document that will assist researchers in designing effective climate change visualizations and an R markdown ‘quick start’ guide on R Shiny applications.
Stream fishes provide many ecosystem services to humans (e.g., sustenance, recreation, ecosystem health indicators) but these taxa are at high risk from climate change impacts. Vulnerability assessments are a quantitative method that can inform management decisions and climate adaptation plans for imperiled taxa. We propose to develop a web application to communicate results of a vulnerability assessment for Chesapeake Bay watershed stream fishes. Broad dissemination of vulnerability assessment results in the form of easily interpretable web applications is important to communicate ecological risks of climate change to the public and to inform stakeholders of scientific findings. The application will be presented to stakeholders for feedback on assessment results and application design. Stakeholder feedback will be distributed to the CDI community in the form of digestible recommendations to improve the interpretability and functionality of web applications to stakeholders and a quick start guide for R Shiny application development and deployment.