In this project, scientists identified climate change refugia and connectivity between meadows across the Sierra Nevada and used data on persistence, stability, and genetic diversity of mammal populations to validate these hypotheses. Incorporating landscape features such as availability of water, topography, and roads, the project team developed a method to map well-connected meadows and examine the potential changes to the nature of those connections.

The California Invasive Plant Council developed a “risk mapping” approach that combines comprehensive distribution maps with maps of current and future suitable range to show where invasive species are likely to spread.

The main goal of this project is to ensure that the 2011-13 climate change update to the Baylands Ecosystem Habitat Goals Report and other key, ongoing conservation activities in the San Francisco Bay region use the latest information about the current and future status of San Francisco Bay tidal marsh ecosystems, particularly in the context of sea-level rise. 

The California Climate Commons offers a starting point for discovery of climate change data and related resources, information about the science that produced it, and guidance for applying climate change science to conservation in California. The Climate Commons host and catalogs climate change datasets, literature, web resources, topical synthesis articles, forums, and California Landscape Conservation Cooperative project details.

To be successful, natural resource managers need to synthesize diverse information on the effects of management actions, climate change, and other stressors on wildlife populations at appropriate scales. This project builds on work to improve a sea-level rise tool for adaptive tidal wetland restoration and management. This tool provides information on how restoration can increase population resilience and long-term persistence at multiple scales for multiple species throughout the San Francisco bay and estuary.

In September of 2013 the CA LCC partnered with UC Davis Information Center for the Environment and Point Blue Conservation Science to offer a workshop on systematic conservation planning. The aim of the workshop was to present the state of the science for using spatial decision support tools to inform the conservation of plants and animals in the context of climate adaptation planning.