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Abstract
Mountain ecosystems within our national parks and other protected areas provide valuable goods and services such as clean water, biodiversity conservation, and recreational opportunities, but their potential responses to expected climatic changes are inadequately understood. The Western Mountain Initiative (WMI) is a collaboration of scientists whose research focuses on understanding and predicting responses of western mountain ecosystems to climatic variability and change. It is a legacy of the Global Change Research Program initiated by the National Park Service (NPS) in 1991 and continued by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to this day as part of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (http://www.climatescience.gov/). All WMI scientists are active participants in CIRMOUNT, and seek to further its goals.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Response of western mountain ecosystems to climatic variability and change: The Western Mountain Initiative |
| Series title | Mountain Views |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 2007 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains |
| Contributing office(s) | Fort Collins Science Center, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center |
| Description | 6 p. |
| First page | 4 |
| Last page | 9 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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