Habitat Climate Change Vulnerability Index Applied to Major Vegetation Types of the Western Interior United States
from NatureServe:
We applied a framework to assess climate change vulnerability of 52 major vegetation types in the Western United States to provide a spatially explicit input to adaptive management decisions. Several from the 52 include prairies of the western Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert. The framework addressed climate exposure and ecosystem resilience; the latter derived from analyses of ecosystem sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Continue reading …