Mayacamas to Berryessa (M2B) Climate Connectivity

The goal of the M2B project is to tap into recent advances in habitat mapping, threat assessment, and climate change projections to co-produce a scientifically sound multi-county habitat connectivity roadmap for the region spanning from the Mayacamas Mountains to the Berryessa Range in concert with local land managers.

This project builds a place-based decision support platform for prioritizing and implementing habitat connectivity projects on the ground across multiple jurisdictions. The products are a science-based prioritization of critical habitat pinch-points co-created with local land managers that identifies threatened linkages in high value habitat corridors. Specific products include a region-wide prioritization of threatened linkages complemented by linkage-specific portfolio reports that evaluate site-specific benefits in terms of climate adaptation, plant and animal species conservation, and watershed integrity.

This gallery includes recent (1981 - 2010) and mid-century (2040 - 2069) projections for mean summer maximum (average of June, July, and August means; JJA) and mean winter minimum (average of December, January, February means; DJF) temperatures across the M2B study area, as well as climate connectivity benefits across the network of protected areas.