Climate change uncertainty poses serious challenges to conservation efforts. One emerging
conservation strategy is to identify and conserve climate change refugia: areas relatively …

Wet montane meadows are an important component of the Sierra Nevada, CA ecosystem
that provide diverse ecological services when in functional condition. Efforts are underway to …

Ranges of species around the world are expected to contract in response to climate change.
Species distribution models (SDMs) are a powerful tool for predicting changes in habitat …

This handbook provides restoration practitioners with guidance to incorporate climate
change considerations into the planning and design of Sierra Nevada meadow restoration …

Montane riparian meadows foster biodiversity and support critical ecosystem services. A
history of exploitation has left most riparian meadows throughout the Mountain West of the …

Though citizen science programs have been broadly successful in diverse scientific fields,
their adoption has lagged in some disciplines, including soil science and ecosystem …

Sierra Nevada meadows are key watershed features because of their influence on
hydrology (American Rivers, 2012; Vernon et al., 2019). Sierra Nevada meadows are low …

While they cover a relatively small geographic area, montane meadows are hotspots of soil
carbon (C) and are characterized by diverse vegetation communities. Estimates of C stocks …

Montane meadows are areas of high biodiversity and provide many important ecosystem
services; however, degradation of 40–60% of these habitats in the Sierra Nevada region of …

Ecologically functioning meadows provide critical ecosystem services including improving a
catchment's water yield, flood dispersion and attenuation, fostering groundwater-dependent …