The Conservation Management Institute is an active partner in the management of natural resources in Virginia, across North America, and around the world. Institute project teams comprised of research faculty, staff, and students engage resource management agencies and organizations to understand their objectives and constraints in order to produce quality solutions through hard work and the application of sound science. Our researchers employ a range of skills, knowledge, and talents with particular strengths in field ecology, geospatial information technology, resource assessment, and logistical support.
Imagine a tropical rainforest that floods for three to five months each year, where villagers travel by boat to visit their neighbors.
Researchers at CMI recently completed work on a project aimed at examining how changing climate may impact species distributions in Virginia. The project was funded by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries through a State Wildlife Grant, and by the National Wildlife Federation with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The primary objective of the project was to develop models of select species distributions in Virginia under multiple climate change scenarios in order to help decision makers envision how these changes could impact management decision making and effectiveness.