GC11G:
Advancing Global Biodiversity Modeling Through Lessons Learned from Other Modeling Communities, Remote Sensing Advancements, and Model Integration and Intercomparison Efforts Posters


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Session ID#: 51433

Session Description:
Improving large-scale biodiversity models is needed to inform progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, many of which are not on track to meet their 2020 goals, threatening global biodiversity conservation, its understanding and sustainable use. For climate research, well-accepted and global general circulation models (GCMs) are available. In contrast, large-scale biodiversity modeling lacks similar capabilities. Questions remain about whether biodiversity can be modeled effectively at the global scale or if finer-scale models should be aggregated to inform decision-making and policy targets.  Global biodiversity modeling presents many challenges not inherent in GCMs, including more complex ecological and biological processes that influence biodiversity change.  Despite differences, biodiversity modelers can learn from and build upon strategies from other modeling communities dealing with similar issues, including novel ways of incorporating remote sensing and effective techniques for addressing the challenges and tackling obstacles in global scale modeling.
Primary Convener:  Bonnie Myers, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, Reston, VA, United States
Conveners:  Sarah R Weiskopf, National Climate Adaptation Science Center, Reston, VA, United States, William Turner, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, United States and Stephen T Jackson, USGS Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bonnie Myers, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, Reston, VA, United States
Chairs:  Sarah R Weiskopf, National Climate Adaptation Science Center, Reston, VA, United States and Bonnie Myers, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, Reston, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sarah R Weiskopf, National Climate Adaptation Science Center, Reston, VA, United States
Index Terms:

0232 Impacts of climate change: ecosystem health [GEOHEALTH]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Framework for Forest Landscape and Habitat Suitability Model Integration to Evaluate Forest Ecosystem Response to Climate Change (455457)
Eric Walsh, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States and Tara W Hudiburg, University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, ID, United States
Challenges and contributions of using high spatial resolution data for biodiversity conservation planning in tropical savannas (469050)
Fernanda Ribeiro1, Dar A Roberts2, Frank W Davis3, Laura L Hess1 and Gabriel Antunes Daldegan1, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)La Kretz Research Center, Sedgwick Reserve, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
Ecological responses to hydrological characteristics in Hawaii streams and their implication with changing climate (402935)
Yinphan Tsang, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Honolulu, United States, Hannah Clilverd, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, United States, Abigail Lynch, USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center, Reston, VA, United States and Dana Infante, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
How different are species distribution model predictions?—Application of a new measure of dissimilarity and level of significance to giant panda Ailuropoda melanoleuca (344162)
Qiongyu Huang1, Christen H Fleming2, Benjamin Robb2, Audrey Lothspeich2 and Melissa Songer3, (1)Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, VA, United States, (2)Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, United States, (3)Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, United States
Selection of Herptile Habitat Management Area Considering Soil Loss (466268)
Ji Yeon Kim, Seoul National University, Interdisciplinary program in Landscape Architecture, Seoul, South Korea, Dong-Kun Lee, Seoul National Universiy, Seoul, South Korea and Yongwon Mo, NIES National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Strategies for Setting Conservation Target in Human Dominated Landcover Areas for Systematic Conservation Planning at the Regional Scale (377375)
Yongwon Mo, NIES National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Dong Kun Lee, Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural System Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, James H Thorne, University of California, Davis, United States and Yasuaki Hijioka, NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan

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