Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Brook Trout (New York)
Assessment full text
This species was identified as moderately vulnerable to climate change because of the following factors:
- Very sensitive to changes in temperature
- Natural and anthropogenic barriers prevent dispersal or shifts in species' range
- Sensitive to changes in precipitation
- Requires specialized habitat
- Depends on natural disturbance likely to be affected by climate change
- Impacted by changes due to human response to climate change
- Sea level rise
- Slight decrease in population or range size is predicted
- Little overlap between current range and range predicted for 2050
The factors below decrease this species' vulnerability to climate change:
- Ability to move across the landscape and/or disperse relatively long distances
Ranking
Highly Vulnerable
Confidence
Very High
Climate scenario
SRES A1B (Mid-range emissions scenario)
Location
New York
Time period
2050
Assessment reference text
Schlesinger, M.D., J.D. Corser, K.A. Perkins, and E.L. White. 2011. Vulnerability of at-risk species to climate change in New York. New York Natural Heritage Program, Albany, NY. Available from: https://connect.natureserve.org/sites/def…
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