New Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments Available for Species and Habitats
The conservation community can view and search each of these assessments by relative ranking or vulnerability scores, conservation status ranks, state and subregion of assessment, and higher taxonomy. In addition, principle investigators NatureServe compiled the results of 700 species assessments previously completed by other researchers as well as assessments on several habitats.
In conducting these assessments, NatureServe’s research team first convened a panel of climate experts to compile and review existing vulnerability assessments, compared strengths and weaknesses of methodologies used, and recommended a vulnerability assessment method for adoption. The recommended method was deployed to generate vulnerability assessments for a suite of key species and habitats selected in consultation with partners of the Cooperative. The detailed dataset assembled as part of this analysis is also available on-line and can be filtered by state, region, taxa, and ecological system.
