ABSTRACT The Columbia Basin Climate Change Scenarios Project (CBCCSP) was
conceived as a comprehensive hydrologic database to support climate change planning …

Expansion of the global protected‐area network has been proposed as a strategy to address
threats from accelerating climate change and species extinction. A key step in increasing the …

This study investigates the extent of the rain‐snow transition zone across the complex terrain
of the western United States for both late 20th century climate and projected changes in …

Migrating wildlife species across the globe face a dire predicament as their traditional
migratory routes are cut off by human encroachment. Forced into smaller and smaller …

Empirical studies and habitat suitability modeling project significant shifts in species
distributions in response to climate change. Because habitat fragmentation can impede …

The world is spatially autocorrelated. Both abiotic and biotic properties are more similar
among neighboring than distant locations, and their temporal co‐fluctuations also decrease …

Maintaining connectivity with source populations is especially important for populations of
boreal species at the southern edge of their distributions, where anthropogenic disturbance …

Novel forms of drought are emerging globally, due to climate change, shifting teleconnection
patterns, expanding human water use, and a history of human influence on the environment …

Outdoor recreation is increasingly recognized to impact nature and wildlife, yet few studies
have examined recreation within large natural landscapes that are critical habitat to some of …

Conservation planning and biodiversity management require information on landscape
connectivity across a range of spatial scales from individual home ranges to large regions …