Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept. (TPWD) participated in a regional workshop sponsored by USFWS and USGS entitled Climate Change: The Western Gulf Coast and Southern Plains: http://www.fws.gov/southwest/Climatechange/workshop.html. Dr. Wendy Gordon, TPWD’s representative to AFWA’s Climate Change Committee, gave a talk on Grasslands and Climate Change that emphasized the potential effects of changing temperature and precipitation patterns on the composition and productivity of southern plains grasslands. The talk summarized simulations and experiments covering this region, including some research projects on which she previously worked.
Dr. Gordon will also be the keynote speaker of the upcoming Texas Plant Conservation conference: http://www.wildflower.org/tpcc/ at which she will address the topic of Climate Change, Plants and
For more information contact Dr. Wendy Gordon at Wendy.Gordon@tpwd.state.tx.us
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