Biodiversity management in the face of climate change: A review of 22 years...
Climate change creates new challenges for biodiversity conservation. Species ranges and ecological dynamics are already responding to recent climate shifts, and current reserves will not continue to...
View ArticleAtmospheric rivers, floods and the water resources of California
California’s highly variable climate and growing water demands combine to pose both water-supply and flood-hazard challenges to resource managers. Recently important efforts to more fully integrate the...
View ArticleAssessment of carbon in woody plants and soil across a vineyard-woodland...
Background :Quantification of ecosystem services, such as carbon (C) storage, can demonstrate the benefits of managing for both production and habitat conservation in agricultural landscapes. In this...
View ArticleAnthropogenic refugia ameliorate the severe climate-related decline of a...
We conducted detailed resurveys of a montane mammal, Urocitellus beldingi, to examine the effects of climate change on persistence along the trailing edge of its range. Of 74 California sites where U....
View ArticleAddressing climate change in the forest vegetation simulator to assess...
To simulate stand-level impacts of climate change, predictors in the widely used Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) were adjusted to account for expected climate effects. This was accomplished by: (1)...
View ArticleAdapting to climate impacts in California: the importance of civic science in...
In an era of climate change, adaptive strategies and coastal management actions are needed to support the interdependent goals of maintaining biological diversity, ecosystem health, and the well-being...
View ArticleAdapting California’s water system to warm vs. dry climates
This paper explores the independent and combined effects of changes in temperature and runoff volume on California’s water supply and potential water management adaptations. Least-cost water supply...
View ArticleAdapting California’s water management to climate change
California faces significant water management challenges from climate change, affecting water supply, aquatic ecosystems, and flood risks. Fortunately, the state also possesses adaptation tools and...
View ArticleAdaptability and adaptations of California’s water supply system to dry...
Economically optimal operational changes and adaptations for California’s water supply system are examined for a dry form of climate warming (GFDL CM2.1 A2) with year 2050 water demands and land use....
View ArticleActual evapotranspiration and deficit: biologically meaningful correlates of...
Correlative approaches to understanding the climatic controls of vegetation distribution have exhibited at least two important weaknesses: they have been conceptually divorced across spatial scales,...
View ArticleA statistical-topographic model for mapping climatological precipitation over...
The demand for climatological precipitation fields on a regular grid is growing dramatically as ecological and hydrological models become increasingly linked to geographic information systems that...
View ArticleA methodology for predicting future coastal hazards due to sea-level rise on...
Sea-level rise will increase the risks associated with coastal hazards of flooding and erosion. Along the active tectonic margin of California, the diversity in coastal morphology complicates the...
View ArticleA long-term hydrologically based dataset of land surface fluxes and states...
A frequently encountered difficulty in assessing model-predicted land–atmosphere exchanges of moisture and energy is the absence of comprehensive observations to which model predictions can be compared...
View ArticleA framework for assessing threats and benefits to species responding to...
1. Current national and international frameworks for assessing threats to species have not been developed in the context of climate change, and are not framed in a way that recognises new opportunities...
View ArticleA climate change vulnerability assessment of California's at-risk birds
Conservationists must develop new strategies and adapt existing tools to address the consequences of anthropogenic climate change. To support statewide climate change adaptation, we developed a...
View ArticleA simple model that identifies potential effects of sea-level rise on...
Diadromous aquatic species that cross a diverse range of habitats (including marine, estuarine, and freshwater) face different effects of climate change in each environment. One such group of species...
View ArticleA comprehensive, high-resolution database of historical and projected climate...
We present a comprehensive set of interpolated climate data for western North America, including monthly data for the last century (1901 to 2009), future projections from atmosphere-ocean general...
View ArticleAchieving conservation when opportunity costs are high: optimizing reserve...
Recent studies have shown that conservation gains can be achieved when the spatial distributions of biological benefits and economic costs are incorporated in the conservation planning process. Using...
View ArticleA working guide to boosted regression trees
Ecologists use statistical models for both explanation and prediction, and need techniques that are flexible enough to express typical features of their data, such as nonlinearities and interactions....
View ArticleA systematic approach for prioritizing multiple management actions for...
The successful management and eradication of invasive species is often constrained by insufficient or inconsistent funding. Consequently, managers are usually forced to select a subset of infested...
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