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Collection of resources, documents, papers, and other information related to drivers and impacts of climate change.
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Resources Available to Appalachian Conservation Partners
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Introduction to the suite of science information resources (data, maps, decision-support and networking tools) available to enhance the work of the Appalachian Conservation Partner Community.
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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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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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Review of Subterranean Faunal Studies of the Appalachians and Models of Subterranean Species Richness PDF
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Historically, the cave fauna, and any biota for that matter, were largely studied from a taxonomic perspective. Papers focused on a lineage or a set of closely related lineages because of the strictures of taxonomic expertise, the difficulty in collating and summarizing information for a variety of taxonomic groups, and because, until relatively recently, there was no research agenda that emphasized patterns of species richness. With the advent of interest in species diversity per se in the late 1960’s and especially with the interest in biodiversity and biodiversity hotspots in the late 1980’s, the focus changed. Studies of cave fauna reflected the changing research agendas. In this bibliographic review, we examine five areas of interest:
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Classification and Mapping of Cave and Karst Resources
