Pollinator Habitat Conservation Along Roadways, Volume 3: Florida (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 According to the Fourth National Climate Assessment (USGCRP 2018) : Increased temperatures, combined with more frequent extreme weather events (including flooding, drought, and fire)
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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 imperiled pollinators occurring in the revegetation project area (Chapter 3)
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Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat along Roadsides 8-9 8.5.5 Additional Benefits of Climate-Smart Pollinator Habitat Creating climate-smart pollinator habitat along roadsides has many additional benefits beyond pollinator conservation. Pollinator habitat also provides benefits such as erosion control and reduced runoff.
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