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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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CASC Network Annual Reports

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The CASC network develops an annual report each year to highlight successful and interesting activities from across the network over the past year. Explore past network reports.

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Regional CASC Annual Reports

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On an annual basis, each regional CASC produces a report documenting the activities of the host university and consortium institutions. Explore past reports from each CASC.

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Scale-appropriate adaptation strategies and actions in the Northeast and Midwest United States Scale-appropriate adaptation strategies and actions in the Northeast and Midwest United States

Climate Change Adaptation is a growing field within conservation and natural resource management. Actions taken toward climate change adaptation account for climate impacts and ecological responses, both current and projected into the future. These actions attempt to accomplish a number of goals, including the conservation of wildlife and ecosystems by reducing vulnerability and...
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Michelle D. Staudinger, Laura Hilberg, Maria Janowiak, Chris Caldwell, Anthony W. D’Amato, Evan H. Campbell Grant, Radley M. Horton, Rachel A. Katz, Chris Neiil, Keith H. Nislow, Ken Potter, Erika Rowland, Chris Swanston, Frank Thompson, Kristopher J. Winiarski
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Integrating climate change into northeast and midwest State Wildlife Action Plans Integrating climate change into northeast and midwest State Wildlife Action Plans

The Department of Interior Northeast Climate Science Center (NE CSC) conducts research that responds to the regional natural resource management community’s needs to anticipate, monitor, and adapt to climate change. The NE CSC is supported by a consortium of partners that includes the University of Massachusetts Amherst, College of Menominee Nation, Columbia University, Marine Biological
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Climate change in the Northeast and Midwest United States Climate change in the Northeast and Midwest United States

The climate is changing rapidly in ways that have already impacted wildlife and their habitats. Here, we present a summary of the observed past and projected future climate changes in the region that are relevant to wildlife and ecosystems, as well as what we know and don’t know in order to raise managers’ confidence in their planning. A number of large-scale regional changes affect the...
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Alexander Bryan, Ambarish Karmalkar, Ethan Coffel, Liang Ning, Radley M. Horton, Eleonora Demaria, Fanxing Fan, Raymond S. Bradley, Richard Palmer
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

Combining state-and-transition simulations and species distribution models to anticipate the effects of climate change Combining state-and-transition simulations and species distribution models to anticipate the effects of climate change

State-and-transition simulation models (STSMs) are known for their ability to explore the combined effects of multiple disturbances, ecological dynamics, and management actions on vegetation. However, integrating the additional impacts of climate change into STSMs remains a challenge. We address this challenge by combining an STSM with species distribution modeling (SDM). SDMs estimate...
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Brian W. Miller, Leonardo Frid, Tony Chang, N. B. Piekielek, Andrew J. Hansen, Jeffrey T. Morisette
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

Comparison of simulated HyspIRI with two multispectral sensors for invasive species mapping Comparison of simulated HyspIRI with two multispectral sensors for invasive species mapping

This paper assesses the potential of a single HYSPIRI scene to estimate cover of the non-native invasive buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) in a heterogeneous Sonoran Desert scrub ecosystem. We simulated HYSPIRI (60 m) along with two multispectral sensors, Thematic Mapper (TM; 30 m) and Advanced Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Spectrometer (ASTER; 15 m), from high-resolution...
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

Maximizing the social and ecological value of Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina as the effects of global change processes increase. Maximizing the social and ecological value of Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina as the effects of global change processes increase.

Coastal ecosystems in the eastern U.S. have been severely altered by processes associated with human development, including drainage of coastal wetlands, changes in hydrology that alter sediment and freshwater delivery to the coast, land clearing, agricultural and forestry activity, and the construction of seawalls and other structures that “harden” the coast. Sea-level rise and the...
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Raye Nilius, Sarah Dawsey, Mitchell J. Eaton, Julien Martin, Stephanie S. Romanach, Suzanne Baird, Michael Bryant, David J. Case, Fred A. Johnson, Gerard McMahon, Nancy Pau, Elizabeth Pienaar, Mary Ratnaswamy, Steven Seibert, Pamela Wingrove, Nathan J. Wood
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

Northwest Northwest

Key Messages 1. Changes in the timing of streamflow related to changing snowmelt are already observed and will continue, reducing the supply of water for many competing demands and causing far-reaching ecological and socioeconomic consequences. 2. In the coastal zone, the effects of sea level rise, erosion, inundation, threats to infrastructure and habitat, and increasing ocean acidity
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Philip W. Mote, Amy K. Snover, Susan M. Capalbo, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, Patricia Glick, Jeremy S. Littell, Richard Raymondi, Spencer Reeder
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

From icefield to ocean - Explore the many ways that glaciers influence Alaska's Coastal Ecosystems. From icefield to ocean - Explore the many ways that glaciers influence Alaska's Coastal Ecosystems.

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Shad O’Neel, Eran Hood, Kristin Timm
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Ecosystems Land Change Science Program, Land Change Science Program

Managing the whole landscape: Historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems Managing the whole landscape: Historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems

The reality confronting ecosystem managers today is one of heterogeneous, rapidly transforming landscapes, particularly in the areas more affected by urban and agricultural development. A landscape management framework that incorporates all systems, across the spectrum of degrees of alteration, provides a fuller set of options for how and when to intervene, uses limited resources more...
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Richard J. Hobbs, Eric S. Higgs, Carol M. Hall, Peter Bridgewater, F. Stuart Chapin, John J. Ewel, Erle C. Ellis, Lauren M. Hallett, James Harris, Kristen B. Hulvey, Stephen T. Jackson, Patricia L. Kennedy, Christoph Kueffer, Lori Lach, Trevor C. Lantz, Ariel E. Lugo, Joseph Mascaro, Stephen D. Murphy, Cara Nelson, Michael P. Perring, David M. Richardson, Timothy Seastedt, Rachel J. Standish, Brian M. Starzomski, Katharine N. Suding, Pedro M. Tognetti, Laith Yakob, Laurie Yung
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

The National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center annual report for 2013 The National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center annual report for 2013

In 2008, Congress created the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSC) within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The center was formed to respond to the demands of natural resource managers for rigorous scientific information and effective tools for assessing and responding to climate change. Located at the USGS National Headquarters in Reston, Va., the NCCWSC has...
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Elda Varela-Acevedo
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

Climate remains an important driver of post-European vegetation change in the eastern United States Climate remains an important driver of post-European vegetation change in the eastern United States

The influence of climate on forest change during the past century in the eastern United States was evaluated in a recent paper (Nowacki & Abrams, 2014) that centers on an increase in ‘highly competitive mesophytic hardwoods’ (Nowacki & Abrams, 2008) and a concomitant decrease in the more xerophytic Quercus species. Nowacki & Abrams (2014) concluded that climate change has not contributed...
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Neil Pederson, Anthony W. D’Amato, James M. Dyer, David R. Foster, David Goldblum, Justin L. Hart, Amy E. Hessl, Louis R. Iverson, Stephen T. Jackson, Dario Martin-Benito, Brian C. McCarthy, Ryan W. McEwan, David J. Mladenoff, Albert J. Parker, Bryan Shuman, John W. Williams
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

Maintaining resilience in the face of climate change Maintaining resilience in the face of climate change

Climate change, when combined with more conventional stress from human exploitation, calls into question the capacity of both existing ecological communities and resource management institutions to experience disturbances while substantially retaining their same functions and identities (Zellmer and Gunderson 2009; Ruhl 2011). In other words, the physical and biological effects of...
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Alejandro E. Camacho, T. Douglas Beard
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers
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