The Prioritization, Adaptation, and Resilience for Climate Toolkit

  • The Prioritization, Adaptation, and Resilience for Climate (PARC) Toolkit for the Coachella Valley is a prioritization tool that the Center for Conservation Biology at UC Riverside has created for the Coachella Valley for adaptive conservation management that may be used to identify needs.

    The PARC Toolkit draws from scientific research on local soil and native vegetation distribution, climate refugia mapping, and carbon stocks assessments for the region to describe vegetation and carbon dynamics within a coherent framework.

  • Luis Barrios created the belowground soil organic and soil inorganic sequestration maps. Danelle Baronia and Luis Barrios created the aboveground carbon sequestration map. Dr. Hector Zumbado-Ulate created the native plant suitable habitat range models, which Danelle Baronia used to create the perennial and annual plant suitable habitat range predictions maps and the plant biodiversity prediction map. Luis Barrios and Danelle Baronia synthesized the PARC Toolkit. Dr. Lynn Sweet and Melanie J. Davis contributed photos. Melanie J. Davis also contributed botanical illustrations. Dr. Lynn Sweet and Dr. Darrel G. Jenerette provided supervision and edits for the PARC Toolkit.

Explore the PARC Toolkit