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From the expansion of invasive species to wildfire, from drought to sea-level rise, changes in climate have created new and evolving challenges for our nation’s resource managers and communities. Our science helps managers of fish, wildlife, and ecosystems understand these impacts and strategically adapt to changing conditions.
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The CASCs develop data and tools that address the informational needs of natural and cultural resource managers. Projects cover topics that address the impacts of climate change on fish, wildlife, ecosystems, & the communities they support.
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Flood and Drought Conditions in Massachusetts Under a Changing Climate
A Northeast CASC supported publication focuses on hydrological extremes in Massachusetts caused by climate change.
Climate Adaptation Integration Tool (CAIT) Incorporates Climate Information into Local Decision-Making Processes
In a multi-agency effort supported by the Northwest CASC, scientists from the USGS, U.S. Forest Service, and various NGO’s recently released the Climate Adaptation Integration Tool (CAIT) to help resource managers incorporate downscaled climate data into local climate adaptation decision-making processes.
Preparing Wildlife for Climate Change: How Far Have We Come?
A recent review supported by the Northeast CASC finds that management recommendations for helping wildlife adapt to climate change tend to focus on broad-scale approaches, such as establishing protected areas, rather than on tactics that can be applied at local or regional scales by on-the-...
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A Bayesian Dirichlet process community occupancy model to estimate community structure and species similarity
Community occupancy models estimate species‐specific parameters while sharing information across species by treating parameters as sampled from a common distribution. When communities consist of discrete groups, shrinkage of estimates towards the community mean can mask differences among groups. Infinite mixture models using a Dirichlet process (...
Sollmann, Rahel; Eaton, Mitchell; Link, William; Mulundo, Paul; Ayebare, Samuel; Prinsloo, Sarah; Plumptre, Andrew J.; Johnson, D.S. Visually communicating future climate in a web environment
While there is growing demand for use of climate model projections to understand the potential impacts of future climate on resources, there is a lack of effective visuals that convey the range of possible climates across spatial scales and with uncertainties that potential users need to inform their impact assessments and studies. We use...
Davis, Corey; Aldridge, Heather D; Boyles, Ryan; McNeal, Karen; Mauldin, Lindsay C.; Atkins, Rachel M. What are the effects of climate variability and change on ungulate life-histories, population dynamics, and migration in western North America? A systematic map protocol
Climate is an important driver of ungulate life-histories, population dynamics, and migratory behaviors, and can affect the growth, development, fecundity, dispersal, and demographic trends of populations. Changes in temperature and precipitation, and resulting shifts in plant phenology, winter severity, drought and wildfire conditions, invasive...
Malpeli, Kate; Weiskopf, Sarah R.; Thompson, Laura; Amanda R. Hardy