Abstract: Climate plays an important role in shaping the environment, natural resources, infrastructure, economy, and other aspects of life in all countries of the world. Therefore, variations and changes in climate can have substantial environmental and socioeconomic implications.
Abstract: The objective of the Western Mountain Initiative (WMI) is to understand and predict the responses - emphasizing sensitivities, thresholds, resistance, and resilience - of Western mountain ecosystems to climatic variability and change.
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U.S. Geological Survey
Abstract: Climate plays an important role in shaping the environment, natural resources, infrastructure, economy, and other aspects of life in all countries of the world. Therefore, variations and changes in climate can have substantial environmental and socioeconomic implications.