Pollinator Habitat Conservation Along Roadways, Volume 1: Alaska (2023) / Chapter Skim
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8-1 Chapter 8 Creating ClimateSmart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides 8.1 Introduction More than 98 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is occurring and that human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, are the cause. The effects are already being felt across the country in rising temperatures and increased frequency of extreme weather events.
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Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides 8-2 Increased temperatures can cause rutting, cracking, and buckling of roads. Nationally, 60,000 miles of bridges and roads run through coastal floodplains, which are at increased risk from flooding and storms.
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Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides 8-3 8.2.1 Where Do These Numbers Come From? Scientists use models to project the effects of climate change in the future (usually up to 100 years)
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Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides 8-4 Combined stressors. Climate change may exacerbate the effects of other stressors, such as habitat loss, pesticide use, and pathogen exposure, magnifying effects on pollinators.
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Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides 8-5 DOTs and other managers of roadsides can make especially meaningful contributions to climate resilience of wild pollinators. Habitat corridors and stepping-stones (patches of habitat that are close enough to allow movement among them)
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Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides 8-6 pollinators might be found on the property in question, including imperiled pollinators (Chapter 3) , and include specific flowering resources for those species if possible.
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Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides 8-7 diverse plant community will better ensure that some plants will be able to persist and thrive, supporting the pollinators that depend on them. This may be especially important in regions where opposing conditions will both become more common.
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Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides 8-8 Table 8-1. Plant traits that will generally be beneficial for adapting to different conditions associated with climate change.
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Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides 8-9 mitigate climate change by increasing carbon sequestration services of those habitats (Ament et al.
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