Download or read book Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This project assessed the climate change vulnerability of 20 coastal wetlands along the Canadian shoreline of the Laurentian Great Lakes by combining the results of an analysis of Wetland Sensitivity (i.e., wetland vegetation response to climate change) with the results of an analysis of Adaptive Capacity (i.e., measuring the innate ability for a wetland to cope and adapt to climate change). Stakeholders and wetland managers can use the Vulnerability Index generated to identify, develop and prioritize adaptation strategies aimed at enhancing the resilience of GLCW ecological goods and services. The objective of this technical report was to operationalize the concept of Adaptive Capacity by developing and interpreting the results of a composite indicator (i.e., a weighted combination of variables). Adaptive Capacity cannot be directly measured, therefore to operationalize this metric, measurable natural and anthropogenic variables with a scientifically supported effect on wetland stability and plasticity were selected"--Executive summary, page 7.

Download or read book Assessing the Sensitivity of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands to Climate Change written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) completed a study to assess the vulnerability of Great Lakes coastal wetlands to climate change, develop adaptive measures to build wetland resilience, and communicate results to wetland stakeholders and practitioners. This Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment considered how wetlands are expected to change in response to future environmental conditions driven by climate change (i.e. Sensitivity based on Exposure), plus the ability of the wetlands to continue to function despite those changes (i.e. Adaptive Capacity). This report describes the Sensitivity component of the overall Vulnerability Assessment"--Executive summary, page ii.

Download or read book Assessing the Vulnerability of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands to Climate Change written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ability to identify ecologically vulnerable coastal wetlands is a significant advancement in conservation and environmental management for the Great Lakes ecosystem. In this study, a team of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) scientists used a novel, science-based framework to assess the vulnerability of 20 Canadian coastal wetlands to climate change across Lakes Ontario, Erie, St. Clair, and Huron, as well as the St. Marys, Detroit, and St. Lawrence Rivers. Two coastal wetland study sites originally selected for Lake Superior were not included in the final assessment. The study improves the understanding of climate change vulnerability by integrating new regional climate and lake-level projections, modelled wetland responses and sensitivity, and the capacity of wetlands to adapt to climate disturbances based on current biological and physical factors"--Executive summary, page 6.

Download or read book Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Communities written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Communities written by Linda D. Mortsch and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fish and Wildlife Resources of the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Within the United States Overview written by Charles E. Herdendorf and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ecological Impacts of Climate Change and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Seed Banks written by Carli R. Gurholt and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Adapting to Climate Change written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptive Capacity of Coastal Wetlands written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Lakes and Coastal Wetland Communities Vulnerabilitiesto Climate Change and Response to Adaptation Strategies written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Response to Climate Change Using the Coastal Wetland Response Model CWRM written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sensitivity of Great Lakes coastal wetlands to global warming was assessed using a Coastal Wetland Response Model (CWRM), which predicts the spatiotemporal succession of large wetland classes based on hydrodynamic and waves time series. The CWRM, which simulates physical (water depth and waves) and environmental (vegetation distribution) conditions, was adapted to twenty wetland sites along the Canadian Great Lakes coastline. The model links large-scale dynamics (i.e. those that define the Great Lakes climate and hydrodynamics) to small-scale processes that explain changes in wetland class distribution through changes in physical conditions"--Executive summary, page 7.

Download or read book Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptive Capacity of Coastal Wetlands written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Climate change and water level impacts on wetlands a bibliography written by G. Koshida and published by Downsview, Ont. : Canadian Climate Program = Programme climatologique canadien. This book was released on 1991 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fish and Wildlife Resources of the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Within the United States written by Charles E. Herdendorf and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Potential Climate Change Effects on Great Lakes Hydrodynamics and Water Quality written by David C. L. Lam and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a state-of-the-art review of the climate change effects on lake hydrodynamics and water quality. Most of the engineering cases in this book deal with the ability of existing infrastructure to cope with extreme weather conditions. The case studies are intended to illustrate the advancement in modeling research on lake hydrodynamics, thermal stratification, pollutant transport, and water quality by highlighting the climate change aspects in the application of these techniques. Topics include climate and lake responses, lake thermodynamics, large-scale circulation, wind-waves on large lakes, great lakes ice cover, and water quality.

Download or read book Strategies for Adapting Great Lakes Coastal Ecosystems to Climate Change written by Kristen Schmitt and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural resources practitioners working in Great Lakes coastal ecosystems face decisions about how to help coastal properties adapt to climate changes. Climate change can amplify existing stressors, interact with past coastal disturbance and management, and potentially increase the rate and magnitude of ongoing change (Shannon et al. 2019). Practitioners can strengthen their long-term plans through proactive and intentional consideration of climate changes and by selecting adaptation options that address these changes while meeting management goals and objectives. In 2019-2021 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science convened regional managers and scientists to develop a menu of climate adaptation strategies and approaches for Great Lakes coastal ecosystems. This menu can be used along with a structured decision-making framework to facilitate planning and implementation of climate-informed tactics. The menu was tested with several organizations in project-level planning in the Great Lakes watershed

Download or read book Future Hydroclimate Variables and Lake Levels for the Great Lakes Using Data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report summarizes the work done by the National Hydrological Service of Environment and Climate Change Canada as part of the Wetlands working group of the Great Lakes Protection Initiatives for a project designed to assess and enhance the resilience of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands. A critical component of this study was to identify the amount and rate of climate change to which wetlands are likely to be exposed. A key role of NHS was to project future water levels of the Great Lakes from various simulations of the future climate as input to a wetlands response model. While the focus of this effort was on the response of wetland vegetation to changes in climate, it is recognized that many other interests within the Great Lakes basin will also have an interest in the results"--Executive summary, page 2.