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Pathways to Climate Safety
When forest animals need to leave their home territories, because of climate change impacts like drought, flooding, or heat or because humans are moving in, where do they go? They need a habitat corridor or pathway – with tree cover, food, and water – to protect them on their journey to a nearby suitable habitat.
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Vose, James M.; Peterson, David L.; Fettig, Christopher J.; Halofsky, Jessica E.; Hiers, J. Kevin.; Keane, Robert E.; Loehman, Rachel.; Stambaugh, Michael C. - Forested lands dominate drinking water supply in the conterminous United States
Liu, Ning; Caldwell, Peter V; Dobbs, G Rebecca; Miniat, Chelcy Ford; Bolstad, Paul V; Nelson, Stacy A C; Sun, Ge. - Land cover change-induced decline in terrestrial gross primary production over the conterminous United States from 2001 to 2016
Zhang, Yulong; Song, Conghe; Hwang, Taehee; Novick, Kimberly; Coulston, John W.; Vose, James; Dannenberg, Matthew P.; Hakkenberg, Christopher R.; Mao, Jiafu; Woodcock, Curtis E. - Chapter 4 - Spatial patterns of drought and moisture surplus in the conterminous United States: 2019, and between 2017 to 2019, and 2015 to 2019
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Smith, Annie C.; Dahlin, Kyla M.; Record, Sydne; Costanza, Jennifer K.; Wilson, Adam M.; Zarnetske, Phoebe L.