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Time to Restore: Using a Community Based Approach to Identify Key Plant Species for Pollinator Restoration
Time to Restore: Using a Community Based Approach to Identify Key Plant Species for Pollinator Restoration
Climate change is affecting all manners of wildlife, including insects, amphibians, reptiles, and shellfish. These wildlife play an important role in their ecosystems and provide food or cultural value to local communities. CASC scientists are working to understand how changing climate conditions are impacting these wildlife and their habitats. Learn more below.
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Forecasting the Effects of Land-Use and Climate Change on Wildlife Communities and Habitats in the Lower Mississippi Valley
This project built on an existing regional conservation partnership to use the most recent downscaled climate model projections to forecast the likely impacts of climate change to species and ecosystems in the Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV). The objective of this work was to develop and test ecological and biological models to facilitate regional adaptive management of wildlife resources...
Modeling the Response of Freshwater Mussels to Changes in Water Temperature, Habitat, and Streamflow
North American freshwater mussels are in serious decline as a result of pollution and habitat destruction from human activities. In addition, many mussel species are living in habitats that push the upper limits of their heat tolerance, which may become problematic as the climate and, as a result, water temperatures warm. As part of this project, we created a set of models to predict how