Ecosystems & Ecosystem Services

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The following are strategies related to ecosystems and ecosystem services that are included in the Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center's 2023-2026 Science Agenda. 

  • 1.8. Identify, design, and evaluate management interventions to maintain ecological integrity and ecosystem services under future precipitation patterns.
  • 1.6. Evaluate and quantify the potential of natural lands to moderate the effects of extreme rainfall, protect natural resources, and provide co-benefits to society.
  • 3.5. Assess changes to aquatic connectivity and the subsequent effects on wetland/aquatic ecosystems.
  • 4.1. Determine changes in the composition, structure, disturbance regimes, ecological function, and distribution of forests.
  • 4.2. Determine changes in the composition, structure, disturbance regimes, ecological function, and distribution of grasslands.

Read the full Science Agenda.

 

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