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

Staff Member

Adam Terando

Email: ajterand@ncsu.edu

Research Publications Publication Date
Van Beusekom, A. E., W. A. Gould, A. J. Terando, J. A. Collazo. 2015. . CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER RESOURCES IN A TROPICAL ISLAND SYSTEM: PROPAGATION OF UNCERTAINTY FROM STATISTICALLY DOWNSCALED CLIMATE MODELS TO HYDROLOGIC MODELS. International Journal of Climatology 2015:1-36. doi:10.1002/joc.4560. October 2015
Terando, A.J., B. Reich, K. Pacifici, J. Costanza, A. McKerrow, and J. Collazo. 2017. Uncertainty quantification and propagation for projections of extremes in monthly area burned under climate change: A case study in the coastal plain of Georgia, USA. Natural Hazard Uncertainty Assessment: Modeling and Decision Support, Geophysical Monograph 223, First Edition. Edited by Karin Riley, Peter Webley, and Matthew Thompson. © 2017 American Geophysical Union. Published 2017 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-119-02786-7. January 2017
Terando, A., S. Traxler, and J. A. Collazo. 2013. Landscape and Climate Science and Scenarios for Florida. USGS series number (OFR 2014-1150) April 2013
Terando, A. J., J. A. Collazo, R. Boyles, J. Bowen, V. Misra, L. Stefanova, and W. Gould. 2017. Developing multi-model ensemble projections of ecologically relevant climate variables for Puerto Rico and the US Caribbean. Extended Abstract. IP-82236, Approved 13 March 2017. March 2017
Terando, A, J. Costanza, C. Belyea, R. R Dunn, A. McKerrow, and J. A. Collazo. 2014. The Southern Megalopolis: Using the past to predict the future of urban sprawl in the Southeast U.S. PLoS ONE. May 2014
Rivera-Burgos, A. C., J. A. Collazo, A. J. Terando, and K. Pacifici. 2021. Linking demographic rates to local environmental conditions in support of Climate Adaptation Strategies for Eleutherodactylus frogs. Global Ecology and Conservation 28 (2021) e01624. | Abstract May 2021
Monroe, K. E., J. A. Collazo, K. Pacifici, B. J. Reich, A. R. Puente-Rolón, and A. J. Terando. 2017. Occupancy and index of abundance of Eleutherodactylus wightmanae and E. brittoni along elevational gradients in west-central Puerto Rico. Caribbean Naturalist 40:1-18. ( ISSN 2326-7119 [online]). April 2017
Monroe, K. E, J. A. Collazo, K. Pacifici, B. J. Reich, A. R. Puente-Rolón, and A. J. Terando. 2017. Occupancy and abundance of Eleutherodactylus Frogs in Coffee Plantations in Puerto Rico. Herpetologica 73:297-306. https://doi.org/10.1655/Herpetologica-D-16-00089. December 2017
Henareh Khalyani, W. A. Gould, E. Harmsen, M. Quinones, and Jaime A. Collazo. 2015. Climate change implications for tropical islands: Interpolating and 1 interpreting statistically downscaled GCM projections for 2 management and planning. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 55:265-282. DOI:10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0182.1 December 2015
Costanza, J., S. Beck, M. Pyne, A. Terando, M. Rubino, R. White, and J. Collazo. 2016. Assessing climate-sensitive ecosystems in southeastern U.S. Open-file Report 1073, Southeast Climate Science Center, Raleigh, NC. June 2016
Costanza, J. K., A. J. Terando, A. J. McKerrow, and J. A. Collazo. 2014. Climate change, urbanization, and management of a fire-dependent ecosystem. J. of Environmental Management 151186-199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.12.032 January 2015
Collazo, J.A., A. J. Terando, M. J. Eaton, E. Martinez, R.C. Bell, A. Puente-Rolon. 2023. Strategic Habitat Conservation and Adaptive Strategies for Recovery and Pre-listing Conservation of Eleutherodactylus (coqui) Amphibians in Puerto Rico. Cooperator Report (ScienceBase). | Abstract January 2024
Collazo, J.A,. A.J. Terando, A.C. Engman, P.F. Fackler, and T.J. Kwak. 2019. Toward a Resilience-Based Conservation Strategy for Wetlands in Puerto Rico: Meeting Challenges Posed by Environmental Change. Wetlands 39: 1255-1269. DOI 10.1007/s13157-018-1080-z February 2020
Clement, M, J. D. Nichols, J. A. Collazo, A. J. Terando, J. E. Hines, and S. Williams. 2019. Partitioning global change: assessing the relative importance of changes in climate and land cover for changes in avian distribution. Ecology and Evolution 9:1985-2003. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4890 January 2019
Campos-Cerqueria, M., A. J. Terando, B. Murray, J. A. Collazo, and T. M. Aide. 2021. Climate change is creating a mismatch between protected areas and suitable habitats for frogs and birds in Puerto Rico. Biodiversity and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02258-9 October 2021
Bowden, J.H., A. J. Terando, V. Misra, A. Wootten, A. Bhardwaj,
R. Boyles, W, Gould, J.A. Collazo, T. L. Spero. 2021. High-resolution dynamically downscaled rainfall and temperature projections for ecological life zones within Puerto Rico and for the US Virgin Islands. International Journal of Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6810 		January 2021
Project Completion Date
Strategic habitat conservation and adaptive strategies for recovery and pre-listing conservation of Eleutherodactylus (coqui) amphibians in Puerto Rico. September 2022
Applying downscaled climate projections to inform decisions June 2019
Development of Long-term acoustic monitoring program and projected species distribution under future scenarios in the US Caribbean. September 2021
Characterizing Uncertainty in Changing Precipitation Regimes for Ecological and Hydrological Applicaitons in the Southeast and the Caribbean US. August 2021
Presentations Presentation Date
Terando, A., J. Collazo, J. Bowden, M. Eaton, R. Majumder, E. Martinez, A. Rivera-Burgos, and R. Chaparro. 2023. Exposure risk for high elevation tropical anurans based on observed physiological thresholds and statistical-dynamical downscaling of global climate model simulations. AGU 2023, San Francisco,CA.<br><br><br> December 2023
Terando, A. J., J. A. Collazo, and J. Bowden. 2022. Transitioning to action: Long-term cross-disciplinary collaboration across the earth system sciences to facilitate local adaptationstrategies for high-elevation amphibian species in the US Caribbean. December 2022
Rivera-Burgos, A. C., J. A. Collazo, and A. J. Terando. 2018. Coping with extreme weather events in Puerto Rico: amphibian research and hurricane Maria. SE Climate and Adaptation Science Center Newsletter. October 2018
Rafael Chaparro<sup>1</sup>, Ana C. Rivera<sup>1</sup>, Eloy Martinez<sup>2</sup>, Adam J Terando<sup>3</sup>, Mitch J. Eaton<sup>3</sup>, and Jaime A. Collazo. 2023. Thermal limits of coqui frogs in Puerto Rico: implications for conservation. 7th Symposium of Puerto Rican Herpetology. September 13, University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo.<br><br> September 2023
Collazo, J. A., A. Terando, T. J. Kwak, A. C. Engman, D. López Ocasio, C. G. Lilyestrom, E. Gonzalez, A. Dragoni, N. Ríos López, S. Vega Castillo, A. Puente Rolón, E. Martínez, J. K. Pacifici, B. Reich, and E. Laber. Toward an emergent sustainable landscape in Puerto Rico: building on multiple objectives, scales, and scientific efforts to foster resiliency across ecosystems. Society of Wetlands Scientists 2017 Annual Conference. June 2017
2. Bowden, J., T. Spero, A.J. Terando, C.G. Nolte, and J. Collazo. 2018. Addressing SST Uncertainty for Future Precipitation Extremes within the Southeast and Caribbean US at Convective Permitting Scales. Abstract GC43J-1674 presented at 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, D.C., 10-14 December. December 2018
1. Terando, A. J., J. A. Collazo, A. C. Engman, P. F. Fackler, and T. Kwak. 2018. Adaptive Management as structured Translational Ecology: A proposal and a case study from Puerto Rico. Presented at 2018 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Washington, D.C., 10-14 December. December 2018