NCEP Exercise - Climate Change and the Future of the Mink Frog in New York State

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There is tremendous uncertainty about what the biotic effects of future climate change might be. Amphibians are of particular concern because of the close association of many of their physiological processes with ambient temperature (especially in northern regions like ours) and moisture levels. This exercise seeks to answer the following questions: Will climate change radically alter distributional patterns for amphibians in New York State? Or will the predicted changes in climate occur within the range of environmental conditions these species already cope with across New York State and therefore be of little direct consequence? This activity is part of the NCEP Module "The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change."

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Ecological Core Concept	Human impacts -- Climate change Applied ecology -- Conservation Applied ecology
Classification	Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection
Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection	Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection	On
Big Data Collection	Off
Editor's Choice	No
Audience	Undergraduate upper division 15-16 Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Pedagogical Use Description	The objective of this exercise is to combine sophisticated computer projections of climate change in New York with data on species distributional patterns recently accumulated via the New York Amphibian and Reptile Atlas project of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. The exercise will subsequently examine how New York’s climate is projected to change and determine whether the mink frog will be left with any habitat.
Keywords	NCEP, conservation, amphibians, climate change
Life science discipline (subject)	Ecology
Primary Author Controlled Name	J.P. Gibbs
Primary Author Affiliation	State University of New York
Primary Author email	ncep@amnh.org
Rights	Reproduction of this material is authorized by the recipient institution for non-profit/non-commercial educational use and distribution to students enrolled in course work at the institution. Copyright 2004, by the authors of the material, with license for use granted to the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation of the American Museum of Natural History. All rights reserved.
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Reviewer A	Unknown
Reviewer B	Unknown
Date Of Record Submission	2011-11-14

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