Exposing ecological and economic costs of the research-implementation gap and compromises in decision making |
Kareksela, Santtu, Atte Moilanen, Olli Ristaniemi, Reima Välivaara, and Janne S. Kotiaho |
2017 |
conservation planning, conservation prioritization, landscape conservation design |
Using regional bird density distribution models to evaluate protected area networks and inform conservation planning |
Alexander, John D., Jaime L. Stephens, Sam Veloz, Leo Salas, Josée S. Rousseau, C. John Ralph, and Daniel A. Sarr |
2017 |
birds, species distribution modeling, conservation planning |
Looking under the hood of local adaptation plans: shedding light on the actions prioritized to build local resilience to climate change |
Stults, Missy, and Sierra C. Woodruff |
2017 |
climate change adaptation, adaptation planning, regional planning |
California from drought to deluge |
Wang, S.-Y. Simon, Jin-Ho Yoon, Emily Becker, and Robert Gillies |
2017 |
drought, precipitation, climate change |
Evaluating a new method for reconstructing forest conditions from General Land Office survey records |
Levine, Carrie R., Charles V. Cogbill, Brandon M. Collins, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, Malcolm P. North, Christina M. Restaino, Hugh D. Safford, Scott L. Stephens, and John J. Battle |
2017 |
vegetation, forest management, historical biogeography |
Human-induced erosion has offset one-third of carbon emissions from land cover change |
Wang, Zhengang, Thomas Hoffmann, Johan Six, Jed O. Kaplan, Gerard Govers, Sebastian Doetterl, and Kristof Van Oost |
2017 |
soil carbon, land cover change, erosion, carbon sequestration |
A bioenergetics approach to setting conservation objectives for non-breeding shorebirds in California’s Central Valley |
Dybala, Kristen E., Matthew E. Reiter, Catherine M. Hickey, W. David Shuford, Khara M. Strum, and Gregory S. Yarris |
2017 |
shorebirds, ecological modeling, wetlands |
Effects of climate change on snowpack and fire potential in the western USA |
Gergel, Diana R., Bart Nijssen, John T. Abatzoglou, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, and Matt R. Stumbaugh |
2017 |
snowpack, wildfire, climate change impacts |
Influence of atmospheric rivers on vegetation productivity and fire patterns in the southwestern U.S. |
Albano, C. M., M. D. Dettinger, and C. E. Soulard |
2017 |
atmospheric rivers, fire |
Climate change vulnerability for species—Assessing the assessments |
Wheatley, Christopher J., Colin M. Beale, Richard B. Bradbury, James W. Pearce-Higgins, Rob Critchlow, and Chris D. Thomas |
2017 |
vulnerability assessment, climate change impacts on biodiversity, biodiversity management |
Revisiting the leading drivers of Pacific coastal drought variability in the Contiguous United States |
Cook, Benjamin I., A. Park Williams, Justin S. Mankin, Richard Seager, Jason E. Smerdon, and Deepti Singh |
2017 |
drought, precipitation, sea surface temperature, atmospheric rivers |
Defining ecological drought for the 21st century |
Crausbay, Shelley D., Aaron R. Ramirez, Shawn L. Carter, Molly S. Cross, Kimberly R. Hall, Deborah J. Bathke, Julio L. Betancourt, et al. |
2017 |
drought, climate change vulnerability, ecosystem management |
raptr: Representative and Adequate Prioritization Toolkit in R |
Hanson, Jeffrey O., Jonathan R. Rhodes, Hugh P. Possingham, and Richard A. Fuller |
2017 |
conservation prioritization, biological conservation |
Bird species at risk in California’s Central Valley: a framework for setting conservation objectives |
Shuford, W. David, and Meghan Hertel |
2017 |
bird conservation, birds, conservation prioritization, wetlands |
Sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting |
California-Nevada Climate Applications Program |
2017 |
climate modeling, weather |
Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change |
McLaughlin, Blair C., David D. Ackerly, P. Zion Klos, Jennifer Natali, Todd E. Dawson, and Sally E. Thompson |
2017 |
climate refugia, hydrology, microclimatology, climate change impacts on biodiversity, oak woodlands |