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WS Agenda FINAL 112211 Nov 2011
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WS Agenda FINAL 112211 Nov 2011
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RFA Conference Call Q & A - March 9, 2011
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Approximately 25 individuals participated on the first informational call for the Appalachian
Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC), held at 10AM on March 9, 2012. The following
agencies/organizations were represented (this may not be a complete list): NatureServe,
University of Georgia, Ohio State, West Virginia University, USGS (multiple locations), National
Wildlife Foundation, University of Connecticut, University of Missouri, University of Kentucky,
Equinox Environmental, NC State, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, SUNY
Environmental Science and Forestry.
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Charleston Symposium Flyer
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Conservation in a Changing Climate - Website
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The success of future conservation efforts will depend upon our abilities to understand and predict ecosystem changes and take action to help species adjust to a changing climate.
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RFA Conference Call Q & A - March 19, 2011
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There were approximately 12 participants on this second informational call. Many had participated in our first call, but new entities included: Downstream Strategies, Ecological Modeling, U. of VA., Penn. State, and Environmental Services.
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Responding to Climate Change on National Forests: A Guidebook for Developing Adaptation Options
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From the USDA Forest Service, comes a recently published guidebook for climate change adaptation in national forests. It provides a state-of-science summary of principles of adaptation, methods for vulnerability assessment, and tools and processes to facilitate the development of adaptation strategies and tactics. Distributed to all 176 national forest units, the guidebook is being used throughout the Forest Service and by other agencies to integrate climate change in sustainable resource management.
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US Fish and Wildlife Service - Science Seminar Series - Evaluating the Vulnerabilities of Ecological Resources to Climate Change in the Northeast- December, 2011 - National LCC Event
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December 2011 seminar of the five monthly seminar series presented on LCC projects. The December series features Dr. Hector Galbraith and Lesley Sneddon's presentation: Evaluating the Vulnerabilities of Ecological Resources to Climate Change in the Northeast.
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US Fish and Wildlife Service - Science Seminar Series - Effects of sea-level rise and altered storminess on Piping Plover breeding habitat along the U.S. Atlantic Coast- January, 2012 - National LCC Event
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January 2012 seminar of the five monthly seminar series presented on LCC projects. The January series features Sarah Karpanty's presentation: Effects of sea-level rise and altered storminess on Piping Plover breeding habitat along the U.S. Atlantic Coast.
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Structural and Functional Loss in Restored Wetland Ecosystems
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Wetlands, which include tropical mangroves and boreal
peatlands, are among the most valuable ecosystems in the
world because they provide critical ecosystem goods and
services, such as carbon storage, biodiversity conservation,
fish production, water purification, and erosion control. As
global change accelerates the loss of wetlands, attempts
are increasing to restore this fragile habitat and its
associated functioning. There has been no global evaluation,
however, of how effective such restoration efforts
have been. Here, we present a meta-analysis of the
biological structure (driven mostly by plant communities)
and biogeochemical functioning (driven primarily by the
storage of carbon in wetland soils) of 621 wetland sites.
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Restoration of Ailing Wetlands
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It is widely held that humankind’s destructive
tendencies when exploiting natural resources leads to
irreparable harm to the environment. Yet, this thinking
runs counter to evidence that many ecological systems
damaged by severe natural environmental disturbances
(e.g., hurricanes) can restore themselves via processes of
natural recovery. The emerging field of restoration
ecology is capitalizing on the natural restorative tendencies
of ecological systems to build a science of repairing
the harm inflicted by humans on natural environment.
Evidence for this, for example, comes from a new metaanalysis
of 124 studies that synthesizes recovery of
impacted wetlands worldwide. While it may take up to
two human generations to see full recovery, there is
promise, given human will, to restore many damaged
wetlands worldwide
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