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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

Project Description

Climate is a major driver of the geographic distribution and abundance of salmon. Climate change is occurring globally, but there has been no organized effort to evaluate the potential effects of climate change, and potential management responses, on populations of salmon and the ecosystems they inhabit. We will conduct synthetic research on the following four high-priority research topics: (1) identification of mechanisms that limit the geographic range of salmon populations and exploration of how these mechanisms may change under projected scenarios of climate change, (2) development of monitoring programs that can identify changes in populations of Pacific salmon and attribute those changes to different potential mechanisms, including climatic change, (3)examination of the relative importance of evolutionary and plastic responses of Pacific salmon to climate change, and (4) classification of salmon populations or metapopulations along a gradient of sensitivity or resilience to climate change, and potential management and conservation strategies that may benefit salmon populations along that gradient under alternative future climates.

Principal Investigator(s)

Erica Fleishman

Project Dates

Start: November 15, 2007

End: May 14, 2010

completed

Participants

Omar I. Aziz
University of Washington
Liz Banse
Resource Media
Nancy Baron
SeaWeb
Timothy Beechie
NOAA, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Erica Fleishman
University of California, Santa Barbara
Correigh Greene
NOAA, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Kendra R. Holt
Simon Fraser University
John Kimball
University of Montana
Joshua J. Lawler
University of Washington
Steven T. Lindley
NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
Luis Francisco Madrinan
University of California, Santa Barbara
Nathan J. Mantua
University of Washington
Niels Maumenee
University of Montana
Eli Meir
Sim Biotic Software
Elizabeth Neeley
University of Washington
Randall M. Peterman
Simon Fraser University
Christine Petersen
University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas E. Reed
University of Washington
James Regetz
University of California, Santa Barbara
Mary Ruckelshaus
NOAA, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Mark P. Schildhauer
University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel E. Schindler
University of Washington
Jack Stanford
University of Montana
David M. Stoms
University of California, Santa Barbara
Fengge Su
University of Washington
Alisa Wade
Colorado State University
Shaun Walbridge
University of California, Santa Barbara
Robin S. Waples
NOAA, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Michael Webster
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Huan Wu
University of Montana

Products

  1. Journal Article / 2011

    Trade-offs between monitoring objectives and monitoring effort when classifying regional conservation status of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) populations

  2. Journal Article / 2013

    Steelhead vulnerability to climate change in the Pacific Northwest