Impacts of climate change on landscapes of the eastern Sierra Nevada and western Great Basin

A. S. Jayko; Connie I. Millar

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Impacts of climate change on landscapes of the eastern Sierra Nevada and western Great Basin

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Authors:

A. S. Jayko, Connie I. Millar

Year:

2000

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-202

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Abstract

This effort was developed under a U.S. GeologicalSurvey (USGS) initiative to sponsor science workshops focusingon various of multidiscipline, multiprogram themes inthe arid Southwest. The intent was to use the workshopsto explore leading-edge questions, as well as to providebetter communication and collaboration between USGS andother organizations and agencies. The workshop topics fallwithin the broad areas of landscape science of the Southwest,ecosystem studies, climatic variation, land use associated withdegradation of habitat and soils, and surfi cial processes inrelation to the environment

Keywords

Workshop, USGS, southwest, Ecosystem, climatic variation, degradation of habitat and soils

Citation

Jayko, A. S.; Millar, C. I. 2000. Impacts of climate change on landscapes of the eastern Sierra Nevada and western Great Basin. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-202