Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

SR Weiskopf, MA Rubenstein, LG Crozier… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …

The science and practice of river restoration

E Wohl, SN Lane, AC Wilcox - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
River restoration is one of the most prominent areas of applied water‐resources science.
From an initial focus on enhancing fish habitat or river appearance, primarily through …

Slower snowmelt in a warmer world

KN Musselman, MP Clark, C Liu, K Ikeda… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
There is general consensus that projected warming will cause earlier snowmelt, but how
snowmelt rates will respond to climate change is poorly known. We present snowpack …

Accelerating extinction risk from climate change

MC Urban - Science, 2015 - science.org
Current predictions of extinction risks from climate change vary widely depending on the
specific assumptions and geographic and taxonomic focus of each study. I synthesized …

The NorWeST summer stream temperature model and scenarios for the western US: A crowd‐sourced database and new geospatial tools foster a user community …

DJ Isaak, SJ Wenger, EE Peterson… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal regimes are fundamental determinants of aquatic ecosystems, which makes
description and prediction of temperatures critical during a period of rapid global change …

Climate change effects on stream and river temperatures across the northwest US from 1980–2009 and implications for salmonid fishes

DJ Isaak, S Wollrab, D Horan, G Chandler - Climatic change, 2012 - Springer
Thermal regimes in rivers and streams are fundamentally important to aquatic ecosystems
and are expected to change in response to climate forcing as the Earth's temperature …

Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation

SJ Wenger, JD Olden - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecologists have long sought to distinguish relationships that are general from those that are
idiosyncratic to a narrow range of conditions. Conventional methods of model validation and …

Headwater streams and wetlands are critical for sustaining fish, fisheries, and ecosystem services

SAR Colvin, SMP Sullivan, PD Shirey, RW Colvin… - Fisheries, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Headwater streams and wetlands are integral components of watersheds that are critical for
biodiversity, fisheries, ecosystem functions, natural resource‐based economies, and human …

Global warming of salmon and trout rivers in the Northwestern US: road to ruin or path through purgatory?

DJ Isaak, CH Luce, DL Horan… - Transactions of the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Large rivers constitute small portions of drainage networks but provide important migratory
habitats and fisheries for salmon and trout when and where temperatures are sufficiently …

Slow climate velocities of mountain streams portend their role as refugia for cold-water biodiversity

DJ Isaak, MK Young, CH Luce… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The imminent demise of montane species is a recurrent theme in the climate change
literature, particularly for aquatic species that are constrained to networks and elevational …