B. 10.4. INCORPORATING CLIMATE CHANGE INFORMATION 
Given the predicted effects of climate change in the state, staff should consider climate 
change in its AIS management strategies. Climate change-related data, criteria, and models 
could be incorporated into some aspects of the Kansas ANS Management Plan. 
B.l0.4.1. Leadership and Coordination 
The Management Plan focuses on prevention and on priority species and identifies 
collaboration and coordination as Objective 1. Climate change should be a consideration in 
communication on encroaching species and potential vectors and on adapting management 
practices to accommodate changing conditions. 
B.10.4.2. Prevention 
Strategic Action 2A1 calls for the identification of AIS that have the greatest potential to 
establish in Kansas and the identification of existing and potential pathways that facilitate new 
AIS introductions. Including climate change considerations into assessments of invasive 
potential could improve predictions of establishment and range expansions. Strategic 
Action 2A2 call for the establishment of approaches to facilitate legislative, regulatory, and other 
actions needed to prevent new AIS introductions and to promote rules that establish the state’s 
authority to control these introductions. The consideration of climate change effects could 
improve these prevention measures by helping identify species with high invasive potential 
B.10.4.3. Early Detection/Rapid Response, Control, and Management 
Strategic Action 4A1 includes tasks on researching and developing control strategies 
using the best available science and coordinating with other entities involved in AIS control. 
Climate change data should be integrated as a part of this research because climate change can 
impact the success of control and eradication methods, particularly the consideration of 
biocontrol organisms. 
B.10.4.4. Research 
Strategic Action 6A1 requires Kansas to support research that identifies, predicts, and 
prioritizes potential AIS introductions. Potential introductions are subject to the impacts of 
climate change. As temperatures, precipitation regimes, and nutrient availability change, 
previously limited AIS may be allowed to establish in the state. Kansas could support research 
to understand how changing conditions may influence AIS spread to guide prevention efforts. 
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