Decision support: Vulnerability, conservation, and restoration (Chapter 8)

Megan M. Friggens; Jeremy R. Pinto; Kas Dumroese; Nancy L. Shaw

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Decision support: Vulnerability, conservation, and restoration (Chapter 8)

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Authors:

Megan M. Friggens, Jeremy R. Pinto, Kas Dumroese, Nancy L. Shaw

Year:

2012

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Finch, Deborah M., ed. Climate change in grasslands, shrublands, and deserts of the interior American West: a review and needs assessment. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-285. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 116-139.

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Abstract

Current predictive tools, management options, restoration paradigms, and conservation programs are insufficient to meet the challenges of climate change in western North America. Scientific and management capabilities and resources will be sapped trying to identify risks to genetic resources and ecosystems and determine new approaches for mitigating and managing changing environments. Developing new tools will require innovative research, improvement and creation of predictive models, continuous evaluation of management outcomes, and integration with social scientists and economists.

Parent Publication

Climate change in grasslands, shrublands, and deserts of the interior American West: a review and needs assessment

Keywords

climate change, grasslands, shrublands, deserts, assessment

Citation

Friggens, Megan M.; Pinto, Jeremiah R.; Dumroese, R. Kasten; Shaw, Nancy L. 2012. Decision support: Vulnerability, conservation, and restoration (Chapter 8). In: Finch, Deborah M., ed. Climate change in grasslands, shrublands, and deserts of the interior American West: a review and needs assessment. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-285. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 116-139.