NCEAS Working Groups
Prediction of responses of wild Pacific salmon to climate change
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
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Journal Article / 2011
Trade-offs between monitoring objectives and monitoring effort when classifying regional conservation status of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) populations
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Journal Article / 2013
Steelhead vulnerability to climate change in the Pacific Northwest