Adam Terando

Bio

Education

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University (2012)

Research Interests

Human-caused global change impacts on climate and ecosystems

Dr. Terando is a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey at the Southeast Climate Science Center, and an Adjunct Professor with the Applied Ecology Department at North Carolina State University. His current research focuses on the impacts of climate and land use change on ecosystems and the complex human-environment relationships that drive these processes. This includes understanding and predicting climatically-induced changes to extreme wildfires in the Southeast US; developing methods to quantify the information value of climate models for use in adaptive management problems; simulating urban growth and land use pattern changes in the Southeast; exploring the feedbacks between climate, land use change, and coastal development; and developing ultra high-resolution climate projections for the U.S. Caribbean to support the creation of robust conservation reserves for at-risk species. Adam also serves as the federal coordinating lead author for the U.S. National Climate Assessment’s Southeast Chapter.

Web Resources

• US Dept of Interior/USGS Southeast Climate Science Center

Publications

• Applying portfolio theory to benefit endangered amphibians in coastal wetlands threatened by climate change, high uncertainty, and significant investment risk , FRONTIERS IN CONSERVATION SCIENCE (2024)
• Projecting the long-term effects of large-scale human influence on the spatial and functional persistence of extant longleaf pine ecosystems in the Florida Flatwoods Pyrome , CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE (2024)
• Bayesian weighting of climate models based on climate sensitivity , COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT (2023)
• Conservation decision makers worry about relevancy and funding but not climate change , WILDLIFE SOCIETY BULLETIN (2023)
• Robust assessment of associations between weather and eastern wild turkey nest success , The Journal of Wildlife Management (2023)
• Spatially interactive modeling of land change identifies location-specific adaptations most likely to lower future flood risk , SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2023)
• Vulnerability of Estuarine Systems in the Contiguous United States to Water Quality Change Under Future Climate and Land-Use , EARTHS FUTURE (2023)
• Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap , ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS (2022)
• Predicting flood damage probability across the conterminous United States , ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS (2022)
• Prescribed fire in longleaf pine ecosystems: fire managers' perspectives on priorities, constraints, and future prospects , FIRE ECOLOGY (2022)