Description: One of the greatest challenges faced by resource managers across the Northeast is developing management strategies that address the interactive, compounding effects of multiple stressors such as climate change, sea level rise, invasive species, disease, coastal erosion, land use change, urbanization, nutrient loading, and pollution. In this session, we will begin by highlighting NE CASC research that investigates how two major global threats, climate change and invasive species, are powerfully converging to impact the Northeast. We will then discuss additional NE CASC research that examines how the region’s declining brook trout population is responding to the dual threats of rising stream temperatures and changing water flow. Finally, we will conclude with a management-led presentation focusing on the need for stocking of Northeast ponds and lakes with climate-adapted fish species. View a list of NE CASC projects relevant to this theme.
Moderators:
Speakers:
- Breaking Down Barriers to Proactive Regulation of Invasive Plants: Bethany Bradley, NE CASC University Co-Director & UMass Amherst; Nancy Olmstead, Maine Department of Conservation, Agriculture & Forestry
- Climate-adaptive stocking as a fishery management approach: Peter McIntyre, NE CASC PI, Cornell University; James Daley, New York DEC; Tommy Detmer, Cornell University (co-author)
- Understanding mechanisms for Brook Trout persistence in warming streams: how does prior thermal history influence subsequent thermal performance? Matthew O'Donnell, U.S. Geological Survey-Leetown Science Center; Rebecca Quiñones, Mass Wildlife