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USGS’s Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville are undertaking research to support southeastern states and partners engaged in the process of preparing revisions of State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs). This effort focuses specifically on integration of climate change into SWAPs. This data product provides a collation of estimates of species

USGS’s Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have launched a research effort to support southeastern states and other partners engaged in the process of preparing revisions of State Wildlife Action Plans for 2025. Specifically, this effort focuses on supporting attempts to integrate climate change considerations into SWAPs. Different...

The objective of this project was to create a shoreline inventory for Hawai‘i Island, the largest and most diverse island in the Hawaiian archipelago. This was done via the collection and processing of high-resolution (

This dataset details individual species and natural habitat vulnerability rankings, including contextual study-specific information. This data was collected from original publications found through a literature search. Information is cumulative to include climate change vulnerability assessment (CCVA) results summarized in Staudinger et al. (2015) and published as of December 2023.

This dataset contains rasters of vegetation refugia and habitat exposure variables for the state of California. Two potential future climate scenarios were used: warmer and wetter (CNRM-CM5), and hotter and drier (MIROC-ESM) & 2 emission scenarios: a higher level one that represents our current trajectory (RCP 8.5) and a lower level one that represents a more optimistic scenario (RCP 4.5...

We simulated a 3-hour, 1-km spatially seamless surface soil moisture (SSM) dataset (called STF_SSM) in the Contiguous United States (CONUS) using a virtual image pair-based spatio-temporal fusion method. This proposed approach effectively fuses the distinct advantages of two long-term SSM datasets, namely, the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) L4 SSM product and the Crop Condition and...

Tree loss is increasing rapidly due to drought- and heat-related mortality and intensifying fire activity. Consequently, the fate of many forests depends on the ability of juvenile trees to withstand heightened climate and disturbance anomalies. Extreme climatic events, such as droughts and heatwaves, are increasing in frequency and severity, and trees in mountainous regions must contend...

Defining a realized niche using key habitat components like temperature, water clarity, and dissolved oxygen (DO) is important to understanding how distributions and demographics of freshwater fish populations may respond to environmental changes. However, habitat preferences are often defined in a laboratory setting and may not accurately reflect preferred habitat in nature. To define a...

Development of this research design attempted to help understand the effects of differing cultural cultivation techniques of sourberry shrubs (Rhus aromatica) for basketry material in Mariposa County. With the permission of Chairman Ron Goode, a randomized complete block design experiment was implemented in a old growth sourberry stand to assess quantitative measures of basketry...

Reports of negative interactions between humans and bears in Maryland have increased steadily since the 1990s, requiring substantial investments of time and resources for their management. While managers typically possess a strong understanding of the spatial distribution of current and historical interactions, they lack the quantitative tools necessary to predict where future...

These datasets include the components of and results from the Rarity and Climate Sensitivity Index (RCS) and occurrence records used to calculate the index for 29 stream fishes native to the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Idaho, Oregon) of the United States. The RCS is an index that ranks species’ intrinsic sensitivity to climate change based on their area of occurrence and climate niche...

An assessment of the adaptive capacity of the NCSO Fisher (Pekania pennanti) that uses 37 factors, grouped by related characteristics: distribution, movement, evolutionary potential, ecological role, abiotic niche, life history, and demography. For each factor, species can be evaluated on a simple “low–moderate–high” scale, with criteria designed to accommodate either quantitative or...