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Climate Conservation
The billions of tons of carbon dioxide we’re pumping into the atmosphere each year may be undoing millions of years of evolution in a geological blink of time. The last time CO2 levels were as high as they are today was about twenty three million years ago.
Decision Support Tools:
Climate Adapted Seed Tool - Rapid climate change has caused a mismatch between the climate that tree populations have adapted to and the climate they currently grow in. This tool helps ecosystem managers identify seed sources that are pre-adapted to local climate conditions at their planting sites.
Postfire Spatial Conifer Reforestation Planning Tool - Large and severe wildfires are leaving vast areas devoid of natural conifer regeneration. This tool aids managers in prioritizing areas for restoration by providing maps of predicted postfire conifer regeneration. It includes taxon-specific regeneration predictions and a range of postfire climate and seed production scenarios. This is a supplement to our paper on postfire conifer regeneration.
Pika Extirpation Predicter - This is an interactive supplement to our paper on pika extirpations in California. Adjust the slider to see where American pika populations are predicted to become extinct as temperatures warm.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Appendix S3: Animation of projected future fate of pika at 67 sites in California, USA.
Interactive version of Appendix S3: Move the slider to adjust summer temperature.
Appendix S1-2: Includes historical photo retakes, methods, etc.
Popular Media:
Climate change pushes pikas from traditional sites in the Sierra. Sacramento Bee. 14 February 2015.
Counting Climate-Challenged Pikas. Quest. QKED. 28 September 2012.
MoveShake Video profiling ASC's Greg Treinish, and featuring yours truly. 2013. (I'm in there at ~7 minutes from the top).
Citizen Science:
->> Pika Citizen Science Survey - adventurers and citizen scientists invited to help collect baseline data on pika occupancy in areas where climate change may cause local extinction over the coming decades.
Crowdfunding Science:
Crowdfunding Science:
->> How much does global warming threaten the American pika? -Mycroryza-crowdfunding for science
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
* Thermoregulation and Climate Change
* Conservation Biogeography
* Sky islands/metapopulation dynamics
* Phenology
* Biodiversity Informatics
* Rare plant conservation
* Species Distribution Models
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