Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Alaska
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

The overarching goal of this research work order is continued development and application of the Integrated Ecosystem Model (IEM) that integrates the driving components for, and the interactions among, disturbance regimes, permafrost dynamics, hydrology, and vegetation in Alaska and Northwest Canada. The outputs from the integrated model will provide natural resource managers and decision makers an improved understanding of the potential response of ecosystems to a changing climate. These projections of key ecological variables of interest (e.g., wildlife habitat conditions) can facilitate the integration of how landscapes may respond to climate change into resource management decisions.