CO-PRODUCING SCIENCE TO SUPPORT CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION

Kat W Powelson; California Landscape Conservation Cooperative; katherine_powelson@fws.gov; Claudia Mengelt, Debra Schlafmann

The California Landscape Conservation Cooperative (CA LCC) is a management-science partnership created to inform and promote integrated science, natural resource management, and conservation to address impacts of climate change and other stressors within and across California's ecosystems. This novel program has spent the last five years working to improve communication and coordination between scientists and resource managers to enhance conservation outcomes. This presentation focuses on a collection of case studies that highlights the diversity of challenges, strategies, and benefits of incorporating co-production of science into natural resource conservation.

Wildlife and Climate Change