Resources

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 lots that are pre-adapted to local climate conditions at their planting sites.

• Postfire Spatial Conifer Restoration 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.

• Seed Zone Climate Tracker – I built this app as an initial step toward developing revised seed transfer guidelines for California. It differs from the Climate Adapted Seed Tool in that it allows the user to select which climate variables to track and does not integrate data from seed-transfer experiments.

• 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.

Climate Conservation News

Many Species will have to evolve 10,000 times faster to adapt to climate change

Global warming has accelerated in the past 15 years

Vulnerability of California Native Fish Species to Climate Change

Science: The Rate Of Warming Since 1900 Is 50 Times Greater Than The Rate Of Cooling In Previous 5000 Years

U.S. Proposes to Protect Wolverines

US Federal Government Lists 2 Ice Seals as Threatened

West Oakland Junior High Students Survey for Pikas (featuring yours truly)

Arctic Sea Extent Ice Below All IPCC4 Model Projections; Models improving, but can they catch up?

Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low (2012)

Greenhouse Gases Rise by Record Amount (see also here)

Arctic Warms to Highest Level Yet as Researchers Fear Tipping Point

USFWS Initiates Status Review of Western Glacier Stonefly

Australian Senate Passes Carbon Tax

California Commission Advances Climate-threatened Pika Toward Legal Protection

Keystone XL Pipeline Becomes Headache for the White House

Arctic Sea Ice Drops to Record Low (2011)

Warming Streams Could be End for Spring-Run Chinook in California

Inyo chipmunk's apparent disappearance indicates a changing Sierra

Climate Claims the Golden Toad

Galapagos Islands Transformed

Outlook Bleak for Joshua Trees