Transcript Managing the SAN MIGUEL HABITAT MANAGEMENT AREA and …

Climate Informed Monitoring
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Climate Informed Monitoring
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Do you feel that you have an understanding of the
potential ecological implications of climate change at
your installation?
Which threats do you have a good handle on?
What do you need more information about?
• Uncertainty; Storm water, water availability & quality (TX)
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Have you tailored your management objectives in your
INRMP to incorporate climate change threats?
If not, what specific objectives would you start with?
• Mobility of species/ dispersal, corridors, shifting distributions &
phenologies resulting from variable physiological tolerances, sensitivities
• Species interactions; mismatch?
• Loss of priority species
• How does climate change affect our objectives?
• Sea level rise (particularly in FL) combined with an extreme event
(hurricane)
• Potential for seed banking?
• What are the low hanging fruit?
• But recognize that we can take this process more slowly, thoughtfully
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Are there existing monitoring efforts at your installation
that could be easily modified into a CIM approach?
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What new monitoring initiatives might be needed to
track the effects of climate change threats and inform
adaptive management?
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Do you think there is value in using CIM on your
installation to optimize climate change adaptation to
achieve your management objectives?
•Yes, sea wall/barrier development (e.g. AK)
•Yes, if we’re not monitoring impacts, we may be wasting limited
resources; need for reprioritization
•What are the decision pts; thresholds
•Reassessing restoration; watching for new species, novel assemblages
•Start at coarse level instead of trying to make fine level predictions
•Role of invasive exotic species in the system; Re-think how we approach,
especially since a lot of resources used for removal…(think SWFC in
riparian areas of the southwest)
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What barriers do you see to
implementing CIM within DoD?
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Thank you!!!
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