Lesley Sneddon

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Biodiversity in a changing climate: a synthesis of current and projected trends in the US This paper provides a synthesis of the recent literature describing how global biodiversity is being affected by climate change and is projected to respond in the future. Current studies reinforce earlier findings of major climate-change-related impacts on biological systems and document new, more subtle after-effects. For example, many species are shifting their distributions and phenologies at faster rates than were recorded just a few years ago; however, responses are not uniform across species. Shifts have been idiosyncratic and in some cases counterintuitive, promoting new community compositions and altering biotic interactions. Although genetic diversity enhances species' potential to respond to variable conditions,... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Cumberland - Southern Appalachian Climate Change Vulnerability Species Assessments These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the southeastern portion of the LCC, covering the area from southern West Virginia, south to Alabama, west to eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. Hyperlinks to additional information are separated into two additional spreadsheets, one for aquatic and subterranean, and another for terrestrial species. Categories: Data; Tags: Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, environment
Central Appalachian Climate Change Vulnerability Species Assessments These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the northern-most portion of the LCC, covering the area from New York south to West Virginia and Virginia, west to Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. Categories: Data; Tags: Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, environment
Interior Low Plateau Climate Change Vulnerability Species Assessments These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the western portion of the LCC, covering the area from Western Kentucky, northeastern Alabama and western Tennessee west to southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. Categories: Data; Tags: Data, Data Acquisition and Development, LCC Network Science Catalog, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, All tags... environment, Fewer tags
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site Vegetation Mapping Project - Spatial Vegetation Data This shapefile is an association-level vegetation map of Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site developed by NatureServe for the National Park Service. The map is based on field work performed in the summers of 2003 and 2004 and a digital orthophoto image flown in early spring 2005. The vegetation communities are crosswalked to the most recent version of the NVCS (October 2007). Tags: Association-level Vegetation Map, National Park Service, SAIR, Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, All tags...

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