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Agreement and uncertainty among climate change impact models: A synthesis of sagebrush steppe vegetation predictions
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| Created: | Jun 10, 2020 at 6:18 p.m. (UTC) | |
| Last updated: | Feb 02, 2024 at 7:34 a.m. (UTC) (Metadata update) | |
| Published date: | Jun 19, 2020 at 4:51 p.m. (UTC) | |
| DOI: | 10.4211/hs.e6b15828d20843eab4e2babd89787f41 | |
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Abstract
Ecologists have built numerous models to project how climate change will impact rangeland vegetation, but these projections are difficult to validate, making their utility for land management planning unclear. In the absence of direct validation, researchers can ask whether projections from different models are consistent. Here, we analyzed 42 models of climate change impacts on sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.), cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.), pinyon-juniper (Pinus L. spp. and Juniperus L. spp.), and forage production on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in the United States Intermountain West. These models consistently projected the potential for pinyon-juniper declines and forage production increases. Sagebrush models consistently projected no change in most areas, and declines in southern extremes. In contrast, projected impacts on cheatgrass were weak or uncertain. In most instances, projections for high and low emissions scenarios differed only slightly.
The projected vegetation impacts have important management implications for agencies such as the BLM. Pinyon-juniper declines would reduce the need to control pinyon-juniper encroachment, and increases in forage production could benefit livestock and wildlife populations in some regions. Sagebrush conservation and restoration projects may be challenged in areas projected to experience sagebrush declines. However, projected vegetation impacts may also interact with increasing future wildfire risk in ways single-response models do not anticipate. In particular, projected increases in forage production could increase management challenges related to fire.
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| Expected Results | See Draft 2 of manuscript and figures in files "draft1_zimmer_et_al_2020.pdf" |
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| This resource updates and replaces a previous version | Zimmer, S., G. Grosklos, P. Adler, P. Belmont (2019). Agreement and uncertainty among climate change impact models: A synthesis of sagebrush steppe vegetation predictions, HydroShare, https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.3b420b738128411e8e1e11b38b83b5f1 |
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| Climate Adaptation Science Project Work | CAS Coordinator · David Rosenberg | Public & Shareable | Open Access |
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This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
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| The Wilderness Society | ||
| National Science Foundation | Climate Adaptation Science | 1633756 |
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