Report Nr. 3564 Changing Climate, Changing Wildlife A Vulnerability Assessment of 400 Species of Greatest Conservation Need and Game Speicies in Michigan

Michigan’s climate has been warming, and the warming trend is accelerating. The best available science indicates the acceleration is likely to continue, and warming in the next 40 years will be roughly 10 times as fast as the warming over the past 100 years in Michigan. Michigan wildlife face myriad conservation challenges, including land use change and habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, competition from invasive exotic species, altered ecological processes, and a rapidly changing climate. This report focuses on the effect of a rapidly changing climate.