Impacts in the Pacific Coastline

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Impacts in the Pacific Coastline
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Engineering Institute of Medicine National
Research Council

• Shifting Ranges of Checkerspot Butterflies
• Ediths checkerspot range has shifted northward
  and to higher elevations over 40 years
• Quino checkerspot first endangered species for
  which climate change is officially listed as a
  threat and as a factor in the plan for its
  recovery

Image courtesy of Dr. Gordon Pratt,
www.quinocheckerspot.com.
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Impacts in the Pacific Coastline
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Engineering Institute of Medicine National
Research Council

• Changes in the Water
• Shift in species ranges many species moving
  northward
• Mysterious dead zones along Washington and Oregon
  coastline cause undetermined but potential links
  to climate change

Scientists retrieve a water sample for research
on a recurring dead zone off the coasts of
Washington and Oregon.
Image courtesy of Oregon State University.
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Impacts in the Pacific Coastline
National Academy of Sciences National Academy of
Engineering Institute of Medicine National
Research Council

• California Wine Industry Unwelcome Changes?
• Climate change affects managed ecosystems like
  vineyards and farms just as it affects natural
  ecosystems
• Future warming unlikely to help wine growers in
  Californias premium wine regions some areas
  projected to become marginal by 2100