The purpose of Tools for Coastal Climate Adaptation Planning is to provide coastal natural resource managers and community planners with the information necessary to select appropriate tools for their climate-related planning projects.
How do the ecosystem and economic benefits of traditional mitigation approaches compare with progressive approaches to Clean Water Act or Endangered Species Act compensatory mitigation?
The manager’s guide summarizes the RVAA approach, provides insights into how the process can inform and support management decisions, and lays out key components to identify in planning and understanding an RVAA.
This report outlines the use of the NatureServe Climate Change Vulnerability Index to assess 17 high-priority species inhabiting the Lake Simcoe watershed, Ontario, Canada.
The first-ever global analysis of extinction risk in reptiles, based on a random representative sample of 1500 species (16% of all currently known species).
This report ranks the relative climate change vulnerability of 185 animal and plant species in West Virginia. Most species were selected based on their status as Species of Greatest Conservation Need within the West Virginia Wildlife Conservation Action Plan.
To help New York State integrate climate change considerations into its Wildlife Action Plan, the New York Natural Heritage Program assessed the relative vulnerability of 119 of the state's Species of Greatest Conservation Need.