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 …

People seek reliable natural resources despite climate change. Diverse habitats and
biologies stabilize productivity against disturbances like climate, prompting arguments to …

In the Pacific Northwest, there are currently 18 evolutionarily significant units (ESUs) or
distinct population segments (DPSes) of Pacific salmon and steelhead listed as threatened …

Widespread declines in Atlantic and Pacific salmon (Salmo salar and Oncorhynchus spp.)
have tracked recent climate changes, but managers still lack quantitative projections of the …

Understanding diet is critical for conservation of endangered predators. Southern Resident
killer whales (SRKW)(Orcinus orca) are an endangered population occurring primarily along …

DNA metabarcoding is an important tool for molecular ecology. However, its effectiveness
hinges on the quality of reference sequence databases and classification parameters …

Abstract In the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports (TAR and AR4, respectively) by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), vulnerability is conceived as a function …

Migratory species are particularly vulnerable to climate change because habitat throughout
their entire migration cycle must be suitable for the species to persist. For migratory species …

Projecting the future distributions of commercially and ecologically important species has
become a critical approach for ecosystem managers to strategically anticipate change, but …

Determining which factors are most effective for mitigative strategies in conservation
management can be difficult for species with complex life cycles. Salmon (Oncorhynchus …