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Species assessments by the Virginia Division of Natural Heritage: This spreadsheet contains the full results of climate change vulnerability assessments conducted in 2010 in Virgiinia.

Research Subregion terrestrial species summary - Open Space Institute: This spreadsheet provides results of terrestrial species vulnerability assessments in a smaller area of analysis in the southern portion of the Cumberland - Southern Appalachian subregion.

Research Subregion aquatic species summary - Open Space Institute: This spreadsheet provides results of species vulnerability assessments in a smaller area of analysis in the southern portion of the Cumberland - Southern Appalachian subregion.

Research Region Terrestrial Species Summary - Open Space Institute: This spreadsheet provides results of vulnerability assessments of terrestrial species conducted by the Open Space Institute.

Research Region Aquatic Species Summary - Open Space Institute: This spreadsheet provides results of the CCVI conducted on aquatic species of the full Research Region.

Project Review: This document is a slide presentation summarizing results of the project as of October, 2011.

Protecting southern Appalachian wildlife in an era of climate change: These materials are the results of a project conducted by the Open Space Institute in 2011. They include a project review presentation describing methodology, and species assessment results. The full assessment area, referred to as Research Region, includes most of the Cumberland - Southern Appalachian and portions of the Central Appalachian subregions. A second smaller assessment area, referred to as Research Subregion, is confined to southeastern Tennessee, northeastern Alabama, and northwestern Georgia. Species assessment results are provided in the NatureServe Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CCVI) tool as four separate spreadsheets: terrestrial species in Research Region, terrestrial species in Research Subregion, aquatic species in Research Region, and aquatic species in Research Subregion.

Identifying Species in Pennsylvania Potentially Vulnerable to Climate Change: This report provides the methods and results of 85 species vulnerability assessments in Pennsylvania.

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of Species of Concern in West Virginia: Elizabeth Byers and Sam Norris. 2011. Climate change vulnerability assessment of species of concern in West Virginia. West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, Elkins, WV. This project assessed and ranked the relative climate change vulnerability of 185 animal and plant species in West Virginia.

Assessing the Potential Effects of Climate Change on Species in the Cumberland Piedmont Network of the National Park Service: In this study, we evaluate the climate change vulnerability of a subset of key species found in the Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN) of the National Park Service (NPS), an ecologically important and diverse region. We developed a list of species of conservation concern (globally and sub-nationally) within each of the fourteen NPS units in the CUPN. Next, we employed NatureServe’s Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CCVI) in order to determine which of those species may be most vulnerable to climate change, based on each species’ 1) direct exposure to climate change, 2) indirect exposure to climate change, 3) sensitivity, and 4) documented/ modeled response to climate change. CCVI results showed a range of vulnerability scores among taxonomic groups, including high vulnerability for mollusks and low vulnerability for migrant songbirds. Furthermore, we found that species of conservation concern were not necessarily those most vulnerable to climate change.

Full CCVI results supplement to Adapting Conservation to a Changing Climate: An Update to the Illinois Wildlife Action Plan: This pdf is a supplement to the report, Adapting Conservation to a Changing Climate: An Update to the Illinois Wildlife Action Plan. It contains the full results for species assessed for vulnerability to climate change using NatureServe's Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment (CCVI) tool.

Adapting conservation to a changing climate: an update to the Illinois Wildlife Action Plan: Full report of methods and results of climate change vulnerability assessments of 162 species in greatest conservation need.

Interior Low Plateau subregion climate change vulnerability species assessments: These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the western portion of the LCC, covering the area from Western Kentucky, northeastern Alabama and western Tennessee west to southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. Results included are from Bruno et al. (Cumberland Piedmont Network of the National Park Service; and Walk et al. 2011 (illinois). It also includes the results from species assessed as part of the current study (Sneddon et al. 2015).

Central Appalachian subregion climate change vulnerability species assessments Excel Spreadsheet: These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the northern-most portion of the LCC, covering the area from New York south to West Virginia and Virginia, west to Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. Results included are Byers and Norris 2011 (West Virginia); Furedi et al. 2011 (Pennsylvania), Ring et al. 2013 (New Jersey), Schlesinger et al. 2011 (New York); Virginia Division of Natural Heritage 2010 (Virginia). It also includes the results from species assessed as part of the current study (Sneddon et al. 2015).

Additional information for terrestrial species of the Cumberland - Southern Appalachian subregion: This spreadsheet provides hyperlinks to additional information from NatureServe Explorer.

Additional information on aquatic and subterranean (cave) species of the Cumberland - Southern Appalachian subregion: This spreadsheet provides hyperlinks to additional information from NatureServe Explorer.

Cumberland - Southern Appalachian Climate Change Vulnerability Species Assessments: These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the southeastern portion of the LCC, covering the area from southern West Virginia, south to Alabama, west to eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. Hyperlinks to additional information are separated into two additional spreadsheets, one for aquatic and subterranean, and another for terrestrial species.

Interior Low Plateau Climate Change Vulnerability Species Assessments: These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the western portion of the LCC, covering the area from Western Kentucky, northeastern Alabama and western Tennessee west to southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois.

Central Appalachian Climate Change Vulnerability Species Assessments: These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the northern-most portion of the LCC, covering the area from New York south to West Virginia and Virginia, west to Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.