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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 about how greenhouse gas emissions and human population size will change over time. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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... Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides  8-4 8.4 What Species Are Most Vulnerable  to Climate Change?    Species most likely to be negatively affected by climate change include resource specialists (e.g., species that use only a narrow subset of plants as larval host plants or for pollen)
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... Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides  8-5 Habitat corridors and stepping-stones (patches of habitat that are close enough to allow movement among them) are important because they allow bees, butterflies, and other insect pollinators to move around the landscape.
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... Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides  8-6 possible, include more than three species per bloom period; plantings that are more diverse can support more species of pollinators and have greater resilience. Provide Nesting Habitat for Native Bees When many people think about bees they think about honey bee hives or bumble bee nests; however, the vast majority of bees are solitary -- nesting in narrow tunnels in the ground or in wood.
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... Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides  8-7 in regions where opposing conditions will both become more common. For example, in many regions both flooding and drought will 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.
From page 225...
... Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides  8-9 (Harrison 2014)

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