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2 CLIMATE CHANGE ALBERTAS BIODIVERSITY This report describes the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institutes 3-year Biodiversity Management and Climate Change Adaptation project Thank you to the BMCCA project team for contributing technical and editorial insight and figures. Preferred Citation Nixon A. C. Shank and D. Farr. 2015. Understanding and Responding to the Effects of Climate Change on Albertas Biodiversity. Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Edmonton Alberta Canada. Available at www.biodiversityandclimate.abmi.ca. Core funding for this project was provided by the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation. Collaborators and other funders Several individual projects were jointly funded with the following organizations. Full acknowledgements can be found in individual reports Government of Canada Canadian Wildlife ServiceEnvironment Canada Interdepartmental Recovery Fund National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Agriculture and Agri-food Canada Department of Defense CFB Suffield Cenovus Nexen Altalink Suncor IHS Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Alberta Sport Recreation Parks and Wildlife Foundation Saskatchewan Ministry of the Environment the Foundation for Orchid Research and Conservation the Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency and Alberta Innovates Bio-Solutions.