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Tools for Coastal Climate Adaptation Planning: A guide for selecting tools to assist with ecosystem-based climate planning
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.
PublicationScientific Report2013NatureServe
Manager’s Guide to Refuge Vulnerability Assessment and Alternatives: Overview and Practical Considerations
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.
PublicationScientific Report2012U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Refuge Vulnerability Assessment and Alternatives Technical Guide: Assessing Vulnerability for Refuges and Landscapes and Developing Alternatives for Management
A detailed how-to manual for conducting vulnerability assessments for refuges and developing strategies and alternatives for management
PublicationScientific Report2012U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Conservation and Management of North American Bumble Bees
A brief overview of the diversity, natural history, conservation status, and management of North American bumble bees, genus Bombus. Eight species from three subgenera have declined drastically during the last two decades.
PublicationScientific Report2012
Vulnerability Assessment and Strategies for the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge and Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge Complex
This assessment of development and climate-change threats to the Sheldon-Hart National Wildlife Refuge complex can be used to shape strategies for refuge planning within a larger landscape context
PublicationScientific Report2011U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of Species of Concern in West Virginia
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.
PublicationScientific Report2011West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
Guidelines for Using the NatureServe Climate Change Vulnerability Index
This document explains the NatureServe Climate Change Index, how to use it, and how to interpret the results.
PublicationScientific Report2011NatureServe
Vulnerability of At-risk Species to Climate Change in New York
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.
PublicationScientific Report2011
La Terre de Nos Aïeux
Cette reporte fournit un examen complet des espèces canadiennes dans un contexte mondial, en complément des perspectives locales et nationales utilisées dans d'autres études importantes et des outils de processus menées par les organismes des gouvernements provincial et fédéral.
PublicationScientific Report2005
Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard: June 2012
This publication provides thorough documentation of the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard approved by the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee as the U.S. Standard for classifying and mapping coastal and marine ecosystems.
PublicationScientific Report2012