EcoAdapt's Climate Adaptation Starter Kit
EcoAdapt's collection of various resources that can help practitioners navigate climate change vulnerability through to adaptation. The Adaptation Starter Kit is divided into six parts:
Urban
Urban strategies and approaches.
Taxonomy Machine Name
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Taxonomy Alias
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Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)
The Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) is managed by EcoAdapt and aims to build a shared knowledge base for managing natural and built systems in the face of rapid climate change. Find Adaptation and Vulnerability Assessments and Reports, Case Studies and Tools to help assess climate change impacts relevant to the region and resource area that you work within.
Forest vegetation may face increased risk of physiological drought during the growing season.
Warmer temperatures can lead to decreased soil moisture even without an associated decrease in precipitation, resulting in a temporary inability for a tree to meet water demand.
Forest productivity will increase during the next several decades in the absence of significant stressors
Some studies have examined the impact of climate change on forest productivity within the region, but they disagree on how other factors such as species composition, stand age, disturbance, or pollution may interact to influence productivity. Changes are not expected to be consistent within a species, and the diversity of forest conditions across the landscape suggests that changes will be spatially variable.
Tree regeneration and recruitment will change
Seedlings are more vulnerable than mature trees to changes in temperature, moisture, and other seedbed and early growth requirements; they are also expected to be more responsive to favorable conditions.
Forest composition will change across the landscape
Forest impact model results predict that habitat and biomass of individual tree species will change, and that tree species will respond uniquely. However, few studies have specifically examined how assemblages of species may change.
Infrastructure
Roads, skid trails, recreation trails, road-stream crossings, bridges, culverts, dams and other facilities associated with development. Includes limited access roadways and related green spaces (such as interstate highways with on and off ramps, sometimes fenced); railroad stations, tracks, and yards; shipyards; airports; etc.
Riparian
Vegetated areas bordering or adjacent to surface waters, including floodplains
Northwest Climate Toolbox
The Northwest Climate Toolbox contains a collection of useful tools to display and compare climate projections for the continental United States. You can explore future data with a Climate Mapper tool, a boxplot tool, or a future time series. You can also display climate normals in the Climate Mapper tool, or through graphs and charts.
New England and Northern New York Forest Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment and Synthesis - supplemental materials
Additional materials related to New England and Northern New York Forest Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment and Synthesis: A Report from the New England Climate Change Response Framework Project.