Details the largest climate change vulnerability assessment in North America Provides unique insight into the potential effects of climate change in Montana, North Dakota, northern Idaho and northwestern Wyoming Each chapter is illustrated with colour figures, maps and tables

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Dr. Jessica Halofsky is a Research Scientist in the University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. She has been involved in climate change research since 2008, and is a national leader in climate change adaptation, especially the application of climate change science in natural resource management. The author of many journal articles and book chapters on climate change and fire ecology, this will be her first book.

Dr. David Peterson is a Senior Research Biologist with the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. He has been involved in climate change research for 25 years and is a national leader in climate change assessment and adaptation. The author of 220 scientific articles, this will be his fourth book, including Climate Change and United States Forests (a Choice Award winner published by Springer in 2014).

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Chapter 1. Introduction and Biogeography (Jessica Halofsky, David Peterson, and Karen Dante-Wood).- Chapter 2. Climatology (Linda Joyce and Marian Talbert).- Chapter 3. Water Resources (Chales Luce).- Chapter 4. Fisheries (Michael Young and Daniel Isaak). - Chapter 5. Forest Vegetation (Robert Keane).- Chapter 6.- Non-Forest Vegetation (Matthew Reeves).- Chapter 7. Ecological Disturbance (Rachel Loehman).- Chapter 8. - Wildlife (Kevin McKelvey and Polly Buotte).- Chapter 9. Recreation (Michael Hand and Megan Lawson).- Chapter 10.- Ecosystem Services (Travis Warziniack).- Chapter 11. Cultural Resources (Carl Davis).- Chapter 12. Applications in Resource Management and Planning (Karen Dante-Wood and Linh Hoang).