Conservation values, conservation-planning and climate change

Climate Change and Conservation Planning in Minnesota

Conservation Planning with Uncertain Climate Change Projections

Climate change is affecting biodiversity worldwide, but conservation responses are constrained by considerable uncertainty regarding the magnitude, rate and ecological consequences of expected climate change. Here we propose a framework to account for several sources of uncertainty in conservation prioritization. Within this framework we account for uncertainties arising from (i) species distri...

Climate change adaptation strategies for resource management and conservation planning.

Recent rapid changes in the Earth's climate have altered ecological systems around the globe. Global warming has been linked to changes in physiology, phenology, species distributions, interspecific interactions, and disturbance regimes. Projected future climate change will undoubtedly result in even more dramatic shifts in the states of many ecosystems. These shifts will provide one of the lar...

Climate change, wine, and conservation.

Climate change is expected to impact ecosystems directly, such as through shifting climatic controls on species ranges, and indirectly, for example through changes in human land use that may result in habitat loss. Shifting patterns of agricultural production in response to climate change have received little attention as a potential impact pathway for ecosystems. Wine grape production provides...

Conservation and climate change: the challenges ahead.

Climatic changes in the distant past were driven by natural causes, such as variations in the Earth’s orbit or the carbon dioxide (CO2) content of the atmosphere. Today, and even more so in the future, climatic changes have another driver as well: human activities (IPCC 1996). The natural greenhouse effect from clouds, water vapor, and CO2, primarily, is responsible for some 33◦ C of surface wa...