18013
Salmon vulnerability maps - Effect of Climate Change on Salmon Population Vulnerability
Salmon vulnerability maps (Effect of Climate Change on Salmon Population Vulnerability)
Data Set
Published / External
17697
FE (Fish Ecology) Division
Project
In Work
1. Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and other Pacific salmon are threatened by unsustainable
levels of harvest, genetic introgression from hatchery stocks and degradation or loss of freshwater
habitat. Projected climate change is expected to further stress salmon through increases
in stream temperatures and altered stream flows.
2. We demonstrate a spatially explicit method for assessing salmon vulnerability to projected
climatic changes (scenario for the years 20302059), applied here to steelhead salmon across
the entire Pacific Northwest (PNW). We considered steelhead exposure to increased temperatures
and more extreme high and low flows during four of their primary freshwater life stages:
adult migration, spawning, incubation and rearing. Steelhead sensitivity to climate change
was estimated on the basis of their regulatory status and the condition of their habitat. We
assessed combinations of exposure and sensitivity to suggest actions that may be most effective
for reducing steelhead vulnerability to climate change.
3. Our relative ranking of locations suggested that steelhead exposure to increases in temperature
will be most widespread in the southern Pacific Northwest, whereas exposure to substantial
flow changes will be most widespread in the interior and northern Pacific Northwest.
There were few locations where we projected that steelhead had both relatively low exposure
and sensitivity to climate change.
4. Synthesis and applications. There are few areas where habitat protection alone is likely to
be sufficient to conserve steelhead under the scenario of climate change considered here.
Instead, our results suggest the need for coordinated, landscape-scale actions that both
increase salmon resilience and ameliorate climate change impacts, such as restoring connectivity
of floodplains and high-elevation habitats.
Salmon gridded data for PNW.
Addresses Legal Mandate
Derived from other data
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These data are available to the public
Peer Reviewed Publication: Restoring salmon habitat for a changing climate
Peer Reviewed Publication: Salmon vulnerabiity to climate change
Theme
PARR Exclusion
Non-NOAA Funded
Theme
Habitat characteristics
Theme
climate change
Theme
habitat
Theme
salmon
Spatial
Pacific NW
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Seattle
WA
USA
Data Set
Table (digital)
Instrument Not Applicable
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Data Steward
2015-10-01
Person
Imaki, Hiroo
Hiroo.Imaki@noaa.gov
2725 Montlake Boulevard East
Seattle
WA
98112
206-302-2409
Distributor
2015-10-01
Organization
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
NWFSC
nmfs.nwfsc.metadata@noaa.gov
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Seattle
WA
98112
USA
206-860-3200
http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov
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Metadata Contact
2015-10-01
Person
Contact, Metadata
nmfs.nwfsc.metadata@noaa.gov
2725 Montlake Boulevard East
Seattle
WA
98112
USA
(206) 860-3433
Originator
2015-10-01
Person
Beechie, Tim
Tim.Beechie@noaa.gov
2725 Montlake Boulevard East
Seattle
WA
98112
206-860-3409
Point of Contact
2015-10-01
Person
Hanson, Karrie
Karrie.Hanson@noaa.gov
2725 Montlake Boulevard East
Seattle
WA
98112
206-860-3334
-122.3062
-122.3062
47.6449
47.6449
Pacific NW: Columbia Basin and coastal Pacific NW
Range
2010-01-01
2013-09-30
Unclassified
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365 days
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Climate modeling, scoring of steelhead vulnerabiliy
NWFSC Annual Project Planning System
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2013-01-31T18:18:01
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2016-02-28
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
NWFSC
2725 Montlake Boulevard East
Seattle
WA
98112
USA
206-860-3200
http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov
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Public
No
2016-02-28
1 Year
2017-02-28