GC13J:
Climate Refugia in a Changing World: Climatic and Hydrologic Processes Informing Ecological Responses I


Session ID#: 10504

Session Description:
Paleohistorical climate refugia are well known in Quaternary Sciences as regions that remained buffered against cold Pleistocene climates and acted as safe havens and sources of re-colonization for populations of warm-adapted species. Climate refugia are increasingly discussed in the context of contemporary climate change as areas buffered from the intensity and pace of change, and where species would persist passively or through targeted management actions. Attractive as the concept is, little is known about physical processes that decouple local and micro-climates from regional conditions, whether areas currently buffered would remain refugia or would warm at greater rates as other areas, and how such areas might be used by species. We invite contributions that investigate climate refugia: their underlying physical (climatic and hydrologic) processes, subsequent ecological responses, methods for identifying, and approaches for monitoring and validating potential refugia.
Primary Convener:  Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Albany, CA, United States
Convener:  Toni Lyn Morelli, US Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, MA, United States
Chairs:  Toni Lyn Morelli, US Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, United States and Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Albany, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Albany, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0410 Biodiversity [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Cold-Air Pools and Regional Warming in the Lake Tahoe Region, Central Sierra Nevada of California—Observations and Considerations regarding the Future of Climate-Change Refugia (Invited) (59689)
Michael D Dettinger, U.S. Geological Survey, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Spatio-Temporal Variability in Topoclimate Inferred from Land Surface Temperature Data and its Relevance for Mapping Climatic Refugia (Invited) (74387)
Solomon Dobrowski, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, Jared Oyler, Jupiter Intelligence, State College, United States and Brady W Allred, University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG), Missoula, MT, United States
Topoclimatic Refugia for Last Stands: Empirical Examples and Modeling Approaches (74347)
Stuart B Weiss, Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Assessing vulnerable and expanding vegetation stands and species in the San Francisco Bay Area for conservation management under climate change (86086)
Naia Morueta-Holme1, Nicole E Heller2, Blair McLaughlin3, Stuart B Weiss4 and David Ackerly1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (3)University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, (4)Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Effective Climate Refugia for Cold-water Fishes (Invited) (59019)
Joseph L. Ebersole, Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, United States, Toni Lyn Morelli, US Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, United States, Christian E. Torgersen, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Dan Isaak, US Forest Service Boise, Boise, ID, United States, Dru Keenan, US Environmental Protection Agency, Seattle, WA, United States, Rochelle Labiosa, Environmental Protection Agency Region 10, Seattle, WA, United States, Aimee H Fullerton, NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States and Jordan Massie, Student Services Contractor, Corvallis, OR, United States
Slow Climate Velocities in Mountain Streams Impart Thermal Resistance to Cold-Water Refugia Across the West (58985)
Dan Isaak1, Mike Young1, Charles H Luce2, Steve Hostetler3, Seth Wenger4, Erin Peterson5 and Jay Ver Hoef6, (1)US Forest Service Boise, Boise, ID, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, United States, (3)USGS, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)University of Georgia, River Basin Center - Odum School of Ecology, Athens, GA, United States, (5)Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, (6)National Marine Mammal Lab, Seattle, WA, United States
Using biological data to test climate change refugia (66353)
Toni Lyn Morelli, US Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, MA, United States; USGS Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, United States and Sean Maher, Smaher@Ucsb.Edu, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Climate refugia: The physical, hydrologic and disturbance basis (80540)
Zachary A Holden, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, Marco P Maneta, Associate Professor, University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States and Jason Forthofer, Rocky Mountain Research Station Missoula, Missoula, MT, United States

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