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File Report: Riparian Prioritization and Status Assessment for Climate Change Resilience of Coldwater Stream Habitats within the Appalachian and Northeastern Regions
by RPCCR Research Team — published Nov 03, 2014 — last modified Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Among a host of other critical ecosystem functions, intact riparian forests can help to reduce vulnerability of coldwater stream habitats to warming regional temperatures. Restoring and conserving these forests can therefore be an important part of regional and landscape-scale conservation plans, but managers need science and decision-support tools to help determine when these actions will be most effective. To help fill this need, we developed the Riparian Prioritization for Climate Change Resilience (RPCCR) web-based decision support tool to quickly and easily identify, based on current riparian cover and predicted vulnerability to air temperature warming, sites that are priority candidates for riparian restoration and conservation.
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File VCS/ICS calendar Riparian Restoration Appendix 1: Canopy Cover Statistics
by Riparian Restoration Research Team — published Oct 10, 2014 — last modified Sep 01, 2015 08:12 AM — filed under: ,
Canopy Cover by State.
Located in Tools & Resources / Riparian Restoration Decision Support Tool
File Troff document Fact Sheet: Riparian Restoration Decision Support Tool
by Matthew Cimitile — published Mar 17, 2014 — last modified Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM — filed under: , , , , , , ,
An innovative web-based tool - funded by the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) and developed by researchers from the U.S. Forest Service and the University of Massachusetts - is allowing managers to rapidly identify high-priority riparian targets for restoration to make more resilient in preparation for changes in future climate. The Riparian Restoration Prioritization to Promote Climate Change Resilience (RPCCR) tool identifies vulnerable stream and riverbanks that lack tree cover and shade in coldwater stream habitats. By locating the best spots to plant trees in riparian zones, resource managers can provide shade that limits the amount of solar radiation heating the water and reduces the impacts from climate change. This well-established management strategy will benefit high-elevation, cold-water aquatic communities.
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File C header Toward rigorous use of expert knowledge in ecological research
by Jessica Rhodes — published Jun 22, 2015 — filed under: ,
Practicing ecologists who excel at their work (‘‘experts’’) hold a wealth of knowledge. This knowledge offers a wide range of opportunities for application in ecological research and natural resource decision-making. While experts are often consulted ad-hoc, their contributions are not widely acknowledged. These informal applications of expert knowledge lead to concerns about a lack of transparency and repeatability, causing distrust of this knowledge source in the scientific community. Here, we address these concerns with an exploration of the diversity of expert knowledge and of rigorous methods in its use. The effective use of expert knowledge hinges on an awareness of the spectrum of experts and their expertise, which varies by breadth of perspective and critical assessment. Also, experts express their knowledge in different forms depending on the degree of contextualization with other information. Careful matching of experts to application is therefore essential and has to go beyond a simple fitting of the expert to the knowledge domain. The standards for the collection and use of expert knowledge should be as rigorous as for empirical data. This involves knowing when it is appropriate to use expert knowledge and how to identify and select suitable experts. Further, it requires a careful plan for the collection, analysis and validation of the knowledge. The knowledge held by expert practitioners is too valuable to be ignored. But only when thorough methods are applied, can the application of expert knowledge be as valid as the use of empirical data. The responsibility for the effective and rigorous use of expert knowledge lies with the researchers.
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Assessing Future Energy Development across the Appalachians
by Matthew Cimitile — published Nov 13, 2014 — last modified Mar 29, 2021 04:20 PM — filed under: , ,
The Nature Conservancy - with support from the Appalachian LCC - has completed a study to assist policy makers, land management agencies, and industry in assessing potential future energy development and how that may overlap with biological and ecological values.
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Organization Oak Ridge National Laboratory
by Matthew Cimitile — published Dec 12, 2012 — last modified May 31, 2024 02:41 PM — filed under: , , ,
ORNL is a multiprogram science and technology laboratory managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by UT-Battelle, LLC. ORNL's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and technical breakthroughs that will accelerate the development and deployment of solutions in clean energy and global security, and in doing so create economic opportunity for the nation.
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Organization College of Environmental Science and Forestry at the State University of New York
by Matthew Cimitile — published Nov 25, 2013 — last modified May 23, 2024 08:08 PM — filed under: ,
The College of Environmental Science and Forestry at the State University of New York advances knowledge and skills to promote the leadership necessary for the stewardship of both the natural and designed environments.
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Organization Carnegie Mellon University
by Carol Sanders-Reed — published Jul 18, 2014 — last modified May 23, 2024 07:44 PM — filed under: ,
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a global research university with more than 12,000 students, 95,000 alumni, and 5,000 faculty and staff. Our award-winning faculty members are renowned for working closely with students to solve major scientific, technological and societal challenges -- including critical conservation challenges.
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Organization Clemson University
by Carol Sanders-Reed — published Jul 18, 2014 — last modified May 23, 2024 08:06 PM — filed under: , ,
Clemson University is a leading public research institution located in Upstate South Carolina. At Clemson, researchers create solutions that change the world.
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Organization Duke University
by Carol Sanders-Reed — published Jul 18, 2014 — last modified May 27, 2024 04:11 PM — filed under: , ,
Duke Environment prides itself on its world-renowned faculty, whose expertise spans 45 environmental sectors, ranging from air quality to climate change and population growth.
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