Comment submitted by James W. Beever, III, Principal Planner, Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council (SWFRPC)

The method seems to work for the species examples presented. It would be instructive to run an example on a wider ranging species that has a reproductive cycle that is very sensitive to climate change such as the wood stork. There appears to be a strong co-correlation in the method between climate suseptabilty and limited habitat range. It might be good to run a simplified version where this is not double counted by apllying the same measure as though it was two seperate independent variables. I am attaching a vulnerability assessment we did for southwest Florida this year. The section on listed species starts on page 169. We think most of the federally listed species in our area will be effected by anticipated future climate change. Even species that have been recently de-listed. Thank you Jim Beever Principal Planner SWFRPC jbeever@swfrpc.org