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Communications
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This is the folder area for the communications workgroup to upload draft products, meeting notes, and other outreach materials.
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Team and Partner Workspace
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Conservation in the face of climate change: The roles of alternative models, monitoring, and adaptation in confronting and reducing uncertainty
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The broad physical and biological principles behind climate change and its potential large scale ecological impacts on biota are fairly well understood, although likely responses of biotic communities at fine spatio-temporal scales are not, limiting the ability of conservation programs to respond effectively to climate change outside the range of human experience. Much of the climate debate has focused on attempts to resolve key uncertainties in a hypothesis-testing framework. However, conservation decisions cannot await resolution of these scientific issues and instead must proceed in the face of uncertainty. We suggest that conservation should precede in an adaptive management framework, in which decisions are guided by predictions under multiple, plausible hypotheses about climate impacts. Under this plan, monitoring is used to evaluate the response of the system to climate drivers, and management actions (perhaps experimental) are used to confront testable predictions with data, in turn providing feedback for future decision making. We illustrate these principles with the problem of mitigating the effects of climate change on terrestrial bird communities in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA.
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Reports & Documents
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Conservation Strategy for Imperiled Aquatic Species in the UTRB
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The Strategy provides guidance to Field Offices in reevaluating current ("status quo") conservation approaches in order to deliver the most cost effective approach toward the conservation and management of imperiled freshwater fish and mussel species in the Upper Tennessee River Basin.
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The Strategy
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County Occurrence Map for Big Brown Bat
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Distribution map of counties with a cave/mine occurrence for big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) within the Appalachian LCC region.
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Gallery: Cave and Karst Maps
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Bat Records by County
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County Occurrence Map for Eastern Small-footed Bat
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Distribution map of counties with a cave/mine occurrence for Rafinesque’s big-eared bat (Myotis leibii) within the Appalachian LCC region.
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Gallery: Cave and Karst Maps
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Bat Records by County
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County Occurrence Map for Gray Bat
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Distribution map of counties with a cave/mine occurrence for the gray bat (Myotis grisecens) within the Appalachian LCC region.
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Gallery: Cave and Karst Maps
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Bat Records by County
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County Occurrence Map for Indiana Bat
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Distribution map of counties with a cave/mine occurrence for Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) within the Appalachian LCC region.
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Gallery: Cave and Karst Maps
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Bat Records by County
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County Occurrence Map for Little Brown Bat
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Distribution map of counties with a cave/mine occurrence for little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) within the Appalachian LCC region.
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Gallery: Cave and Karst Maps
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Bat Records by County
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County Occurrence Map for Northern Long-eared Bat
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Distribution map of counties with a cave/mine occurrence for Northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) within the Appalachian LCC region.
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Gallery: Cave and Karst Maps
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Bat Records by County
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County Occurrence Map for Rafinesque’s Big-eared Bat
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Distribution map of counties with a cave/mine occurrence for Rafinesque’s big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) within the Appalachian LCC region.
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Gallery: Cave and Karst Maps
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Bat Records by County
