Pollinator Habitat Conservation Along Roadways, Volume 7: Inland Northwest (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 multiple effects of climate change simultaneously. While some pollinator species may fare better under climate change, many species will be negatively affected.
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Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides 8-4 8.5 Increasing Climate Resiliency for Pollinators Increasing climate resilience for pollinators requires a multifaceted approach. Creating and restoring habitat, increasing habitat connectivity, and reducing other stressors are all key components for increasing pollinator climate resilience.
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8-5 8.5.3 Reducing Additional Stressors Reducing stressors (i.e., drivers of pollinator declines; see Chapter 3) to pollinators such as pesticide exposure, habitat loss, and invasive species is important because these different stressors can interact with each other and with climate change to magnify negative effects on pollinators.
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Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides 8-6 species to build nests (Chapter 2, Pollinator Biology and Roadsides)
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Chapter 8. Creating Climate‐Smart Pollinator Habitat Along Roadsides 8-7 Climate change is likely to also affect the quantity and quality of floral resources for pollinators. For example, increased drought frequency is projected for this region, and drought-stressed plants produce fewer flowers with less nectar, lowering pollinator carrying capacity (the number of pollinators that can be supported by the habitat)
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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 carbon stored by the soils (Lange et al.
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