Author: United States Departement of Agriculture, Forest Service
Year of publication: No information
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Vulnerability assessment
Details: Assessing the impact of climate change on tree and bird species- a multi-stage modeling approach
Format of assessment: Web tool
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Government representatives or researchers
Institutional scale of use: Regional
Details: Tree and bird habitats in the Eastern United States
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Natural resource managers and others / general public
Output: Others (see details)
Details: Species distribution maps under different climate scenarios
Region of origin: North America
Developed by which sector: State-run
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: North America
Potential geographic coverage: Eastern United States
Sectors covered: Biodiversity
Details: Ecosystems
Method used: Scenario mapping
Description of methodology: 3-step modelling approach: How suitable tree and bird species habitats may change under future climate scenarios; The likelihood that modelled future habitats are colonized by the species; How much can unmodelled factors like disturbances and biological characteristics change future outcomes
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Hazard
Details: Region specific hazards
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Loss of biodiversity
Details: Hazards considered depend on the context
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Use of existing data on the bird and tree distribution, environment and climate, forest density etc. in the focus region
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: No
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No information
Adressing uncertainty: No information
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Non-Economic
Details: Only assessment of changes in species distribution maps under different climate scenarios
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): No
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: Project proposals- adaptation fund
Applied by whom: USDA Forest Service
Open access: Yes