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The Gulf of Mexico is estimated to contain nearly half of all U.S. salt marsh systems, which are rapidly disappearing within the Gulf States. Salt marshes are complex, dynamic, and transitional systems that provide habitat for a myriad of wildlife species, filtration that supports water quality, and natural barriers that contribute to the security of inland coastal areas. Loss of coastal wetlands and degradation of estuarine habitat along the northern Gulf of Mexico, and particularly along coastal Louisiana have been recognized as two of the primary issues influencing Gulf ecosystem integrity.Several multi-agency consortiums, including the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, have identified conservation...
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This illustrated guide, written by GCPO LCC staff, covers some of the basic functions of the Conservation Planning Atlas on the Databasin platform
Coastal land managers are faced with many challenges and uncertainties in planning adaptive strategies for conserving coastal ecosystems under future climate change scenarios. As transitional ecotones between the marine and terrestrial environment, nearshore habitats are particularly sensitive to climate change. Projected climate change effects on coastal environments include sea-level rise, changing storm magnitude and frequency, salt water intrusion, accelerated erosion, shifting mudflat profiles, and increased water temperature and acidity (Huppert et al. 2009). Sea-level rise ranging from 0.43 m to 1.66 m by 2100 (NRC 2012) could potentially inundate thousands of acres of coastal habitats if accretion processes...
The Center for Watershed Sciences and the Information Center for the Environment, in cooperation with affiliated organizations throughout the Sierra Nevada, are in the process of building and maintaining this data clearinghouse to support the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation meadow initiative.Meadow ecosystems of the Sierra Nevada (California, USA) have been maintained by the interplay of biotic and abiotic forces, where hydrological functions bridge aquatic and terrestrial realms. Meadows are not only key habitat for fishes, amphibians, birds, and mammals alike, but also provide enumerable ecosystem services to humans, not limited to regulating services (e.g., water filtration), provisioning services (e.g.,...
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Indian Valley sits atop the Sierra Crest, 30 miles south of Lake Tahoe. The 250 acre meadow was once ahigh-elevation sponge that soaked up spring snowmelt and slowly released water throughout thesummer. However, historic overgrazing caused erosion and downcutting of the stream channel andformed a network of gullies that quickly drained water from the meadow. In 2012, a partnership thatincluded the US Forest Service, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Coca Cola and American Riversrestored the meadow by filling the gully and once again enabling flood waters to spread out and soak in.As a result, groundwater storage increased, the water table rose, and streamflow increased during thelate summer months. The vegetation...
The objective of this review is to discuss physical processes over a wide range of spatial scales that govern the formation, evolution, and dissipation of marine fog. We consider marine fog as the collective combination of fog over the open sea along with coastal sea fog and coastal land fog. The review includes a history of sea fog research, field programs, forecasting methods, and detection of sea fog via satellite observations where similarity in radiative properties of fog top and the underlying sea induce further complexity. The main thrust of the study is to provide insight into causality of fog including its initiation, maintenance, and destruction. The interplay between the various physical processes behind...
This insert into the March 2014 Estuary news offers snapshots of how seven CA LCC projects have been laying the foundations for lasting cooperative conservation partnerships. The CA LCC has been striving to ensure that its projects complete research and make it accessible to resource managers – through publications, maps, the Climate Commons web site, workshops, webinars, and more. The CA LCC also completed a five-year strategic plan and science management framework in 2013.
The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CLFRP) was established by Congress undersection 4003(a) of Title IV of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to foster collaborative,science-based restoration on priority forest landscapes across the United States. Section 4003(b)describes the eligibility criteria for the program that includes the required elements of a landscaperestoration strategy:
While winter is nearing its end, conservation efforts of our partners across the Rocky Mountain landscape of the Great Northern LCC are pushing forward. With major shifts in national policy, our local efforts are more important than ever.The aim of this newsletter is to foster communication among conservation practitioners to facilitate landscape-scale conservation throughout the Great Northern LCC. If you read about an intriguing project or are interested in an upcoming meeting, get in touch. We love to showcase projects, resources, upcoming meetings, and recently-released reports from our partners so please get in touch or have friends and colleagues sign up for our newsletter.
In this newsletter for the Great Northern LCC Rocky Mountain Partner Forum (RMPF), we’re sharing updates on two regional projects: one focused on climate adaptation and cold water systems and the other investigating and facilitating landscape connectivity. There are also two upcoming meetings and ways to share your work with the Partner Forum!We hope you find these updates educational, and please do let us know if you have suggestions for content, work to share, or would just like to reach out and connect. We look forward to deepening the ties of the Rocky Mountain Partner Forum.
The imminent demise of montane species is a recurrent theme in the climate change literature, particularly for aquatic species that are constrained to networks and elevational rather than latitudinal retreat as temperatures increase. Predictions of widespread species losses, however, have yet to be fulfilled despite decades of climate change, suggesting that trends are much weaker than anticipated and may be too subtle for detection given the widespread use of sparse water temperature datasets or imprecise surrogates like elevation and air temperature. Through application of large water-temperature databases evaluated for sensitivity to historical air-temperature variability and computationally interpolated to provide...
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