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Climate Vulnerability Analysis for Amphibians and Reptiles: The Devil is in the Detailsand Reptiles: The Devil is in the DetailsKyle Barrett, John C. Maerz, and Nathan P. NibbelinkWarnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
fUniversity of Georgia
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Talk objectives
• Approaches to assessing vulnerabilityf i h d f d li d i• Confronting the need for data quality and quantity
• Amphibians examples• Next steps (refining models, adding complexity)
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Planning for climate change• Forecasting species responses to climate change is a necessary
evil.
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Planning for climate change• Forecasting species responses to climate change is a necessary
evil.Necessary because:Necessary because:• Provide stakeholders with planning tools when developing
action plans.• Identify species that might shift status unexpectedly.• Help prioritize allocation of resources, management
i i i dactivities, and areas.
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Planning for climate change• Forecasting species responses to climate change is a necessary
evil.Necessary because:y• Provide stakeholders with planning tools when developing
action plans.• Identify species that might shift status unexpectedly• Identify species that might shift status unexpectedly.• Help prioritize allocation of resources, management
activities, and areas.Evil because:• Fraught with assumptions and uncertainties that make
forecasts challengingforecasts challenging. • “Alternative models can be so variable as to compromise their
usefulness for guiding decisions.”
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Methods for modeling species responses to climate changeclimate change• Two inter‐related activities
Assessing vulnerabilities• Gauge direct and indirect effects of climate change
R k i b d l bilit• Rank species based on vulnerability
Forecasting future distributionsForecasting future distributions• Estimate future expansion or contraction of species ranges• Estimate where species are likely to occur in the futurep y
• Where will species persist?• Where will species colonize?• Where do future habitats intersect with other factors?
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Methods for modeling species responses to climate changeclimate change• Forecasting distribution responses
Correlative models:• Phenomenological
R l t t di t ib ti t• Relate current distributions to environmental variables
Mechanistic models:• Use explicit relationships between
environmental variables and organismal performance
• Estimated independently of• Estimated independently of species current distribution
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Methods for modeling species responses to climate changeclimate change
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Methods for modeling species responses to climate changeclimate change• Common approaches to forecasting
Ensemble forecasting:• Present a range of scenarios
generated by alternativegenerated by alternative models.• Alternative distribution
models• Alternative climate models
V i d l ti• Varying model assumptions
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Amphibian vulnerabilities to climate change
• Patterns of amphibian distributions and diversity show consistent, strong dependence on climate• Richness often related to topography,
moisture, and temperature
• Diversity generally highest at mid and high elevations in montane regions
• Most species colonized those regions whenMost species colonized those regions when the climate occurred across valley bottoms
• Many species appear strictly confined to h i li itheir current climatic zone.• Many species exist at or near their
thermal maxima.• Dispersal limited through warmDispersal limited through warm
habitats
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Selecting a tool for modeling
• DOMAIN, logistic regression, MaxEnt, GARP Random ForestsGARP, Random Forests….
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Selecting a tool for modeling
• DOMAIN, logistic regression, MaxEnt, GARP Random ForestsGARP, Random Forests….
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Creating a correlative model from presence only datapresence‐only data
• Species locality data collected and mappedSpecies locality data collected and mapped• Climate data matching (precipitation, temperature)• Use ‘background points’ to match climate at other localities• Project onto current and future climate‐scapes• Post‐processing of other variables
• Land use/land cover• Sea level rise• Focal species (i.e., longleaf pine)p ( , g p )
• Output may be threshold‐based or continuous• Output represents probability distribution of
suitable climate – not probability of presence
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Creating a correlative model from presence only datapresence‐only data
• Species locality data collected and mapped
www.herptnet.org
www.gbif.org
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Creating a correlative model from presence only datapresence‐only data
• Species locality data collected and mapped (HerpNet data)
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Creating a correlative model from presence only datapresence‐only data
• Species locality data collected and mapped (HerpNet data)
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Creating a correlative model from presence only datapresence‐only data
• Species locality data collected and mapped (HerpNet data)
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Creating a correlative model from presence only datapresence‐only data
• Species locality data collected and mapped (HerpNet data)
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Creating a correlative model from presence only datapresence‐only data
• Species locality data collected and mapped (HerpNet data supplemented with state‐maintained EOs)supplemented with state maintained EOs)
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No TN dataNo TN data
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Creating a correlative model• Intersect locality data with current climatic conditions (typically
30 – 40 year average of conditions)30 40 year average of conditions)• Measures of climate will depend on
• SDM algorithm, interpretability, and natural history of species
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Creating a correlative model• Use background points to match climate at other localities• Extent of background point placement is important• Extent of background point placement is important
• Restrict to area around known range of species• Use target group background localities if possibleg g p g p
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Creating a correlative model• Project onto current and future climate‐scapes• Availability of data at this stage progressing rapidly• Availability of data at this stage progressing rapidly
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Creating a correlative model• Output from model may be continuous or binary• For binary models a threshold must be chosen• For binary models a threshold must be chosen
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Distribution CEMs
MaxEnt
strict CEM liberal CEMstrict CEMassumes current distributionis strictly predicted by climate
liberal CEMassumes species climatedistribution is larger thancurrent realized distirubtion
from Milanovich et al. 2010. PLoS One.
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Distribution CEMs GCM
Canadian
MaxEnt
Hadley
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age source: usgc
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Distribution CEMs GCM CO2
Canadian
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lowMaxEnt
Hadleyhigh
llow
U d i l GCM th ti ll l d f l b l d l•Used regional GCMs mathematically scaled from global models.•Each GCM run under two future CO2 scenarios [“low” and “high”]
•Therefore, for each of 28 species…2 CEMs X 2 GCMs X 2 CO2 levels = 8 model scenarios
•Model projections run out to 2020, 2050, and 2080
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Distribution CEMs GCM CO2
Canadian
g
lowMaxEnt
Hadleyhigh
llow
strict CEMC di GC
liberal CEMdl GCCanadian GCM
high CO2Hadley GCMlow CO2
from Milanovich et al. 2010. PLoS One.
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from Milanovich et al. 2010. PLoS One.
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from Milanovich et al. 2010. PLoS One.
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from Milanovich et al. 2010. PLoS One.
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Current vulnerability assessmentFunding provided by US Fish and Wildlife Service Competitive State Wildlife Grant (2009)
Model future climatic distributions of “priority” reptiles and amphibians.•Southeastern Pilot Study
•Modeling species identified with input from SE States•Species selected by…
•species of greatest conservation need•eliminated species that were only listed by a single state if that state represented a range margin
Products•Bracketed scenarios of shifts in climatic distributions for focal species.•Post‐processing of other variables
•Intersections of suitable habitat with conservation management lands•Incorporating land use/land cover it habitat projections•Applying to other modeling efforts:
•Coastal habitat loss due to sea level rise•Habitat restoration forecasting (e.g., Longleaf pine habitat restoration)
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Concluding remarks
• Need to build better biophysiological models • Limited (and biased) data on most species
• Need to identify factors that are not currently part of vulnerability assessmentsvulnerability assessments
• Species distribution models can be used cautiously as a valuable tool to forecast conservation needs and management actions.
• Such approaches need to ensemble multiple models and provide a range of scenarios.provide a range of scenarios.
• Accurate and abundant species distribution data is a limiting factor for assessing climate change vulnerability of most speciesspecies.
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