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From the expansion of invasive species to wildfire, from drought to sea-level rise, climate change creates new and evolving challenges for ecosystems across the nation. The USGS National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs) is a partnership-driven program that teams scientific researchers with natural and cultural resource managers and local communities to help fish, wildlife, waters, and lands across the country adapt to changing conditions.
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The CASCs fund scientific projects that generate research, data sets, and tools that natural and cultural resource managers can use to help fish, wildlife, ecosystems, & local communities survive and thrive in a changing climate.
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Our network is comprised of the National CASC and nine regional CASCs, covering the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawai'i, the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands, and the U.S. Caribbean.
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Our bi-weekly Climate Adaptation Insights Newsletter shares our latest news on webinars, events, publications, and other items of interest from the National and Regional CASCs.
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Friday's Findings - December 3 2021
Climate Change Refugia for Landscape Conservation
Date: December 3, 2021, from 2-2:30 p.m. eastern time
Speaker: Toni Lyn Morelli, Research Ecologist, USGS Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
How Can Managers Respond to Changing Ecosystems? New BioScience Special Section Provides In-Depth Exposition of the Resist-Accept-Direct Framework
A new Special Section in the journal BioScience provides an in-depth exposition of the Resist-Accept-Direct framework, a new approach to guide natural resource decision making. Articles in the Special Section explore the practical application of the framework, compatibility of existing tools, social barriers and opportunities, and future science needs.
Winter Ticks, Moose, and Climate Change
A recent article in Jackson Hole News & Guide highlights National CASC supported research on how climate change could affect the impact of winter ticks on moose and other ungulates in Wyoming.
Publications
A new approach for representing agent-environment feedbacks: Coupled agent-based and state-and-transition simulation models
ContextAgent-based models (ABMs) and state-and-transition simulation models (STSMs) have proven useful for understanding processes underlying social-ecological systems and evaluating practical questions about how systems might respond to different scenarios. ABMs can simulate a variety of agents (autonomous units, such as wildlife or people);...
Miller, Brian W.; Frid, Leonardo Aquatic foods to nourish nations
Despite contributing to healthy diets for billions of people, aquatic foods are often undervalued as a nutritional solution because their diversity is often reduced to the protein and energy value of a single food type (‘seafood’ or ‘fish’)1,2,3,4. Here we create a cohesive model that unites terrestrial foods with nearly 3,000 taxa of aquatic...
Golden, Christopher D.; Koehn, J. Zachary; Shepon, Alon; Passarelli, Simone; Free, Christopher M.; Viana, Daniel; Matthey, Holger; Eurich, Jacob G.; Gephart, Jessica A.; Fluet-Chouinard, Etienne; Nyboer, Elizabeth A.; Lynch, Abigail; Kjellevold, Marian; Bromage, Sabri; Charlebois, Pierre; Barange, Manuel; Vannuccini, Stefania; Cao, Ling; Kleisner, Kristin; Rimm, Eric; Danaei, Goodarz; DeDisto, Camille; Kelahan, Heather; Fiorella, Kathryn J.; Little, David C.; Allison, Edward H.; Fanzo, Jessica; Thilsted, Shakuntala H. A new approach to evaluate and reduce uncertainty of model-based biodiversity projections for conservation policy formulation
Biodiversity projections with uncertainty estimates under different climate, land-use, and policy scenarios are essential to setting and achieving international targets to mitigate biodiversity loss. Evaluating and improving biodiversity predictions to better inform policy decisions remains a central conservation goal and challenge. A...
Myers, Bonnie; Weiskopf, Sarah R.; Ferrier, Simon; Weng, Ensheng; Casey, Kimberly Ann; Harfoot, Michael; Jackson, Stephen; Leidner, Allison K.; Lenton, Timothy M; Luikart, Gordon; Matsuda, Hiroyuki; Pettorelli, Nathalie; Rosa, Isabel MD; Ruane, Alexander C; Senay, Gabriel B.; Serbin, Shawn P; Tittensor, Derek P; Shiklomanov, Alexey N; Beard, T. Douglas