Conservation and Climate Change: the Challenges Ahead

The challenges confronting conservation and climate change are discussed. The balance of evidence from meta-analyses done on species from many different taxa examined at disparate locations around the globe suggests that a significant impact from recent climatic warming is discernible in the form of...

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Published in:Conservation biology 2006-06, Vol.20 (3), p.706-708
Main Authors: ROOT, TERRY L., SCHNEIDER, STEPHEN H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Animals
Applied ecology
Biological and medical sciences
Challenges Ahead
Climate change
Climate models
Conservation biology
Conservation of Natural Resources
Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife
Ecosystem
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
General aspects
Global climate models
Global warming
Greenhouse Effect
International environmental cooperation
Marine ecology
Paleoclimatology
Parks, reserves, wildlife conservation. Endangered species: population survey and restocking
Plants
Time Factors
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Summary:The challenges confronting conservation and climate change are discussed. The balance of evidence from meta-analyses done on species from many different taxa examined at disparate locations around the globe suggests that a significant impact from recent climatic warming is discernible in the form of long-term, large-scale alteration of animal and plant populations. Conservation biologists and others face a number of challenges regarding climate change over the next several decades, both in predicting and documenting its patterns and in dealing with its effects, including improvement of regional analyses, study of transients, inclusion of many variables, multiscale analyses, and synergistic effect of habitat fragmentation. Conservation biologists not only need to anticipate the phenology and movements of individual species in response to climate change but must also project potential changes to biological communities.
ISSN:0888-8892
1523-1739
DOI:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00465.x