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Since its inception in 2008, CASC-funded research projects have generated over 2,000 publications in academic journals across the sciences, including articles in high-impact journals such as Science and Nature. Browse a selection of publications from CASC-funded projects below. For a complete list of our scientific projects, publications, and data, explore our Project Explorer database.

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Ecosystem vulnerability to climate change in the southeastern United States Ecosystem vulnerability to climate change in the southeastern United States

Two recent investigations of climate-change vulnerability for 19 terrestrial, aquatic, riparian, and coastal ecosystems of the southeastern United States have identified a number of important considerations, including potential for changes in hydrology, disturbance regimes, and interspecies interactions. Complementary approaches using geospatial analysis and literature synthesis...
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Jennifer M. Cartwright, Jennifer Costanza
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Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center

To manage inland fisheries is to manage at the social-ecological watershed scale To manage inland fisheries is to manage at the social-ecological watershed scale

Approaches to managing inland fisheries vary between systems and regions but are often based on large-scale marine fisheries principles and thus limited and outdated. Rarely do they adopt holistic approaches that consider the complex interplay among humans, fish, and the environment. We argue that there is an urgent need for a shift in inland fisheries management towards holistic and
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Vivian T. Nguyen, Abigail Lynch, Nathan Young, Ian G. Cowx, T. Douglas Beard, William W. Taylor, Steven J. Cooke
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

Effects of climate change on tidal marshes along a latitudinal gradient in California Effects of climate change on tidal marshes along a latitudinal gradient in California

Public Summary The coastal region of California supports a wealth of ecosystem services including habitat provision for wildlife and fisheries. Tidal marshes, mudflats, and shallow bays within coastal estuaries link marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats, and provide economic and recreational benefits to local communities. Climate change effects such as sea-level rise (SLR) are...
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Karen M. Thorne, Glen M. MacDonald, Rich F. Ambrose, Kevin Buffington, Chase M. Freeman, Christopher N. Janousek, Lauren N. Brown, James R. Holmquist, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, Katherine W. Powelson, Patrick L. Barnard, John Y. Takekawa
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Ecosystems Land Change Science Program, Land Change Science Program, Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)

Reconstructions of Columbia River streamflow from tree-ring chronologies in the Pacific Northwest, USA Reconstructions of Columbia River streamflow from tree-ring chronologies in the Pacific Northwest, USA

We developed Columbia River streamflow reconstructions using a network of existing, new, and updated tree-ring records sensitive to the main climatic factors governing discharge. Reconstruction quality is enhanced by incorporating tree-ring chronologies where high snowpack limits growth, which better represent the contribution of cool-season precipitation to flow than chronologies from...
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Jeremy S. Littell, Gregory T. Pederson, Stephen T. Gray, Michael Tjoelker, Alan F. Hamlet, Connie A. Woodhouse
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

Parameter regionalization of a monthly water balance model for the conterminous United States Parameter regionalization of a monthly water balance model for the conterminous United States

A parameter regionalization scheme to transfer parameter values from gaged to ungaged areas for a monthly water balance model (MWBM) was developed and tested for the conterminous United States (CONUS). The Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test, a global-sensitivity algorithm, was implemented on a MWBM to generate parameter sensitivities on a set of 109 951 hydrologic response units (HRUs)...
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Andrew R. Bock, Lauren E. Hay, Gregory J. McCabe, Steven L. Markstrom, R. Dwight Atkinson
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Water Resources Mission Area, Science Synthesis, Analysis, and Research Program, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Colorado Water Science Center, Advanced Research Computing (ARC)

Assessing the sensitivity of avian species abundance to land cover and climate Assessing the sensitivity of avian species abundance to land cover and climate

Climate projections for the Midwestern United States predict southerly climates to shift northward. These shifts in climate could alter distributions of species across North America through changes in climate (i.e., temperature and precipitation), or through climate-induced changes on land cover. Our objective was to determine the relative impacts of land cover and climate on the...
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Jaymi J. LeBrun, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Frank R. Thompson, William D. Dijak, Joshua J. Millspaugh
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

Report from the workshop on climate downscaling and its application in high Hawaiian Islands, September 16–17, 2015 Report from the workshop on climate downscaling and its application in high Hawaiian Islands, September 16–17, 2015

In the subtropical and tropical Pacific islands, changing climate is predicted to influence precipitation and freshwater availability, and thus is predicted to impact ecosystems goods and services available to ecosystems and human communities. The small size of high Hawaiian Islands, plus their complex microlandscapes, require downscaling of global climate models to provide future...
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David A. Helweg, Victoria Keener, Jeff M. Burgett
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

Identifying bird and reptile vulnerabilities to climate change in the southwestern United States Identifying bird and reptile vulnerabilities to climate change in the southwestern United States

Current and future breeding ranges of 15 bird and 16 reptile species were modeled in the Southwestern United States. Rather than taking a broad-scale, vulnerability-assessment approach, we created a species distribution model (SDM) for each focal species incorporating climatic, landscape, and plant variables. Baseline climate (1940–2009) was characterized with Parameter-elevation...
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James R. Hatten, J. Tomasz Giermakowski, Jennifer A. Holmes, Erika M. Nowak, Matthew J. Johnson, Kirsten E. Ironside, Charles van Riper, Michael Peters, Charles Truettner, Kenneth L. Cole
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Southwest Biological Science Center, Western Fisheries Research Center, Columbia River Research Laboratory (CRRL)

On the sustainability of inland fisheries: Finding a future for the forgotten On the sustainability of inland fisheries: Finding a future for the forgotten

At present, inland fisheries are not often a national or regional governance priority and as a result, inland capture fisheries are undervalued and largely overlooked. As such they are threatened in both developing and developed countries. Indeed, due to lack of reliable data, inland fisheries have never been part of any high profile global fisheries assessment and are notably absent...
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Steven J. Cooke, Edward H. Allison, Beard, Robert Arlinghaus, Angela Arthington, Devin Bartley, Ian G. Cowx, Carlos Fuentevilla, Nancy J. Leonard, Kai Lorenzen, Abigail Lynch, Vivian M. Nguyen, So-Jung Youn, William W. Tayor, Robin Welcomme
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

Increased water deficit decreases Douglas fir growth throughout western US forests Increased water deficit decreases Douglas fir growth throughout western US forests

Changes in tree growth rates can affect tree mortality and forest feedbacks to the global carbon cycle. As air temperature increases, evaporative demand also increases, increasing effective drought in forest ecosystems. Using a spatially comprehensive network of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) chronologies from 122 locations that experience distinctly different climate in the western...
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Christina M Restaino, David L. Peterson, Jeremy S. Littell
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

Loss of genetic diversity and increased subdivision in an endemic Alpine Stonefly threatened by climate change Loss of genetic diversity and increased subdivision in an endemic Alpine Stonefly threatened by climate change

Much remains unknown about the genetic status and population connectivity of high-elevation and high-latitude freshwater invertebrates, which often persist near snow and ice masses that are disappearing due to climate change. Here we report on the conservation genetics of the meltwater stonefly Lednia tumana (Ricker) of Montana, USA, a cold-water obligate species. We sequenced 1530 bp of...
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Steve Jordan, J. Joseph Giersch, Clint C. Muhlfeld, Scott Hotalling, Liz Fanning, Tyler H. Tappenbeck, Gordon Luikart
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center

Wildfire risk as a socioecological pathology Wildfire risk as a socioecological pathology

Wildfire risk in temperate forests has become a nearly intractable problem that can be characterized as a socioecological “pathology”: that is, a set of complex and problematic interactions among social and ecological systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Assessments of wildfire risk could benefit from recognizing and accounting for these interactions in terms of...
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A. Paige Fischer, Thomas A. Spies, Toddi A Steelman, Cassandra Moseley, Bart R. Johnson, John D. Bailey, Alan A Ager, Patrick S. Bourgeron, Susan Charnley, Brandon M. Collins, Jeffrey D Kline, Jessica E Leahy, Jeremy S. Littell, James D. A. Millington, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Christine S Olsen, Travis B Paveglio, Christopher I. Roos, Michelle M Steen-Adams, Forrest R Stevens, Jelena Vukomanovic, Eric M White, David M J S Bowman
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers
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