Research & Data from the Southwest Hub Region
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Vulnerability Assessments of U.S. Agriculture and Forests (2018)
Two special issues in the journal Climatic Change feature vulnerability assessments of agriculture and forestry across the Nation written by the Climate Hubs and their partners.
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Livestock Ranching, Rangelands, and Resilience: Ensuring Adaptive Capacity in an Increasingly Variable Climate
Beginning in 2018 and concluding in 2022, the USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub helped conduct a research and outreach project to explore the concept of "socio-ecological resilience" from…
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2020 Jornada Virtual Symposium
The USDA Southwest Climate Hub team prepared flash presentations to showcase our climate adaptation projects. The Hub has three functional areas: 1) research, science synthesis, assessments, 2) tool…
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Spatio-temporal analysis of Federal crop insurance cause of loss data: A roadmap for research and outreach efforts
Federal crop insurance provides a financial safety net for farmers against insured perils such as drought, heat, and freeze. In this white paper, we analyze publicly-available Federal crop insurance…
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Synthesis of Grazing and Water Management Strategies in the Great Basin
Many tribal and non-tribal ranchers throughout the Great Basin either lack water access, or experience water shortages for their cattle operations. These shortages can negatively impact livestock…
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Long Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) Network
The Long Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) is a partnership among 18 premier long-term research sites across the United States. The LTAR network will provide data that can be used in the…