Get Started: Quick-Reference Articles

Note to the user: These articles were written between 2010 and 2018 to help conservation managers understand major climate change topics and quickly access important resources about them. They have not been updated since the date at the bottom of each article.

An Overview of Climate Change Assessments and Reports Understanding Sea Level Rise About General Circulation Models What is Downscaling? Why So Many Climate Models? About Raster Resolutions Intro to Climate and Weather Observation Data About the Basin Characterization Model Datasets

Drought and Climate Change Biodiversity and Climate Change Wildfire and Climate Change Water Resources and Climate Change Rangelands and Climate Change Atmospheric Rivers and Climate Change Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Climate Change Ecosystem Services and Climate Change

Intro to Climate-Smart Conservation Conducting a Vulnerability Assessment Intro to Scenario Planning Intro to Species Distribution Modeling Evaluating the Impacts of Sea Level Rise Climate Change Vulnerability of Rare Plants Informing Land Use Decisions on California Rangelands Vulnerability of Tidal Marsh Birds to Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation of Resources of the Sierra Nevada

Fire and Fuels Management: The Ojai Community Defense Zone Project Grazing Management: The Lower Piru Rangelands Project Restoration and Planting: San Diego River Coastal Sage Scrub Restoration Project Watershed Improvement: The Trabuco Creek Watershed Improvement Project The following links go to other websites Saving Tidal Marshes in the San Francisco Bay Preventing the Spread of Invasive Plants Sediment Strategy Seeks to Save Salt Marsh Species A Climate-Smart Recovery Plan for an Endangered Butterfly Ranchers in Marin County Consider Carbon Credits

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