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Reference

CHANGES IN CLIMATE (National)

• US Global Change Resource Program. 2017. Climate Science Special Report  – This report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States.
• US Forest Service. 2018. A Gallery of Climate Data and Resources – The Office of Sustainability and Climate has compiled web-based maps and resources related to climate change, including projections of temperature, precipitation, and snow residence time

CHANGES IN CLIMATE (Regional)

• Janowiak et al. 2018. New England and New York Forest Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment and Synthesis: A Report from the New England Climate Change Response Framework – Chapter 2 of the report summarizes regional changes in climate.
• US Forest Service. 2018. A Gallery of Data and Resources Related to the New England and Northern New York Vulnerability Assessments – The Office of Sustainability and Climate has compiled web-based maps and resources related to the New England forest vulnerability assessment.
• Trends in Extreme Precipitation for the Northeast United States, 1948-2007
• Trends in Wintertime Climate in the Northeast United States, 1965-2005

CHANGES IN CLIMATE (New Hampshire specific)

• New Hampshire State Climate Summary (NOAA/Runkle et al.: 2017) – Provides a nice overview and figures related to past climate trends and future projections.
• The University of New Hampshire produced several state-level reports:
• Climate Change in Northern New Hampshire: Past, Present, and Future
• Climate Change in Southern New Hampshire: Past, Present, and Future
• Climate Change and Human Health in New Hampshire
• NOAA’s Climate-at-a-Glance interface provides an easy way to look up historical data and make figures.

Forests

• New England and New York Forest Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment and Synthesis: A Report from the New England Climate Change Response Framework (Janowiak et al: 2018) – Summarizes current understanding of climate change impacts on forests ecosystems and provides model projections of tree species and forest change (see appendices 4-6 for additional model results).
•  A Gallery of Data and Resources Related to the New England and Northern New York Vulnerability Assessments (US Forest Service: 2018) –The Office of Sustainability and Climate has compiled web-based maps and resources related to the New England forest vulnerability assessment.
• Changing Climate, Changing Forests: The Impacts of Climate Change on Forests of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada (Rustad et al.: 2012) – This report also provided a regional overview.
• Good Forestry in the Granite State - Recommended Voluntary Forest Management Practices for New Hampshire (2010, UNH Extension)

Wildlife

(incl. fish and aquatic orgs.)

• Littlefield, C. E., & D'Amato, A. W. (2022). Identifying trade-offs and opportunities for forest carbon and wildlife using a climate change adaptation lens. Conservation Science and Practice, 4( 4), e12631. 
• New Hampshire Wildlife Action Plan (New Hampshire Fish and Game Department: 2015) – Chapter 4 includes a section on Climate Change and Severe Weather.
• New Hampshire Ecosystems and Wildlife Climate Change Adaptation Plan (New Hampshire Fish and Game Department: 2013) Developed to supplement the 2005 Wildlife Action Plan and includes summaries of community- and species-level vulnerabilities.
• Staudinger et al. 2015. Integrating Climate Change into Northeast and Midwest State Wildlife Action Plans – Summarizes regional climate change impacts on wildlife and identifies ecosystems and species at greatest risk. Potentially most relevant is Chapter 3: Biological Responses to Climate Impacts with a Focus on Northeast and Midwest Regional Species of Conservation Need, which highlights vulnerable terrestrial and aquatic species.
• Janowiak et al. 2018. New England and New York Forest Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment and Synthesis: A Report from the New England Climate Change Response Framework – Appendix 8 contains additional description of some impacts to wildlife.

Recreation

• Climate Impacts on the Winter Tourism Economy of the United States (Natural Resources Defense Council and Protect Our Winters: 2012) – Provides a good overview of economic and social impacts.
• Riding Winter’s Trails (Hubbard Brook Research Foundation: 2014) – Summarizes discussion from a roundtable of NH snowmobile groups.
• Projected Climate Change Impacts on Skiing and Snowmobiling (Wobus et al: 2017) – Includes projections for 2050 and 2090 that indicate significantly reduced seasons.
• A temporal importance-performance analysis of recreation attributes on national forests: a technical document supporting the Forest Service update of the 2010 RPA Assessment (Askew et al.: 2017) – provides a comprehensive analysis of projected changes in recreation given changes in demographics and climate. Identifies activities expected to increase and decrease.

Water Resources

• Streamflow responses to past and projected future changes in climate at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, USA (Campbell et al.: 2011) – Modeled response of Hubbard Brook watershed to future changes in climate.
• Regional climate change projections of streamflow characteristics in the Northeast & Midwest U.S. (Demaria et al.: 2016) – Includes coarse-scale projections of stream changes in New England and New York using more recent climate models.

Riparian Areas

• Incorporating climate change projections into riparian restoration planning and design (Perry et al: 2015) – Review paper that discusses how restoration activities can respond to anticipated climate impacts.

Invasives

• Do invasive alien plants benefit more from global environmental change than native plants? (Liu et al: 2016) – Review paper showing that invasive plants are better able to take advantage of increased temperature and carbon dioxide levels relative to native plants.