Climate and Conservation

Climate and Conservation presents case studies from around the world of projects focused on climate change adaptation-regional-scale endeavors where scientists, managers, and practitioners are working to protect biodiversity by protecting landscapes and seascapes in response to threats posed by climate change.

The book begins with an introductory section that frames the issues and takes a systematic look at planning for climate change adaptation. The nineteen chapters that follow examine particular case studies in every part of the world, including landscapes and seascapes from equatorial, temperate, montane, polar, and marine and freshwater regions.

Climate and Conservation offers readers tangible, place-based examples of projects designed to protect large landscapes as a means of conserving biodiversity in the face of the looming threat of global climate change.

Autorentext

Dr. Jodi Ann Hilty has served as the Director of the North America Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society since October 2007 and is based out of Bozeman, Montana. As Director, Dr. Hilty provides leadership on scientific applications to natural resource management and conservation. This includes leading efforts to address four major conservation challenges including natural resource extraction, livelihoods, connectivity, and climate change. As Director, she oversees a staff of approximately 55 individuals that works in some of the most remote places in North America; applies and communicates scientific information; promotes the active involvement of WCS in the larger scientific and conservation community; strengthens partnerships between WCS and other organizations; garners resources for WCS work; and cultivates the next generation of conservation science leaders. Trained as a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, her passion is focused on finding creative science-based solutions to resolve critical conflicts between humans and natural world. Dr. Hilty is lead author on the 2006 book titled, Corridor Ecology: the Science and Practice of Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation and co-editor on the 2010 book titled, Safe Passages: Highways, Wildlife and Habitat Connectivity. She also sits on the boards of several conservation and academic organizations, is a member of the professional Society for Conservation Biology, and serves as a science member on a National Parks Service advisory board planning committee.

Inhalt

Foreword

Preface

PART 1: SETTING THE CONTEXT

Chapter 1. Climate Change Science, Impacts, and Opportunities

Charles C. Chester, Jodi A. Hilty, and Stephen C. Trombulak

Chapter 2. Landscape and Seascape Climate Change Planning and Action

Molly S. Cross, Anne M. Schrag, Evan H. Girvetz, and Carolyn A. F. Enquist

PART 2: EQUATORIAL AND TROPICAL LANDSCAPES

Chapter 3. Albertine Rift, Africa

Anton Seimon and Andrew Plumptre

Chapter 4. The Brazilian Amazon

Eneas Salati, Marc Dourojeanni, Agenor Mundim, Gilvan Sampaio, and Thomas Lovejoy

Chapter 5. Mesoamerican Biological Corridor

Margaret Buck Holland

PART 3: TEMPERATE AND MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPES

Chapter 6. Boreal Forest, Canada

Meg Krawchuk, Kim Lisgo, Shawn Leroux, Pierre Vernier, Steve Cumming, and Fiona Schmiegelow

Chapter 7. Cape Floristic Region, South Africa

Lee Hannah, Dave Panitz, and Guy Midgley

Chapter 8. Eastern Mongolian Grassland Steppe

Evan H. Girvetz, Robert McDonald, Michael Heiner, Joseph Kiesecker, Galbadrakh Davaa, Chris Pague, Matthew Durnin, and Enkhtuya Oidov

Chapter 9. Northern Great Plains, North America

Anne M. Schrag and Steve Forrest

Chapter 10. Washington State, USA

Meade Krosby, Jennifer R. Hoffman, Joshua J. Lawler, and Brad H. McRae

PART 4: FRESHWATER AND SEASCAPES

Chapter 11. Alps Freshwater, Europe

Leopold Füreder, Aurelia Ullrich-Schneider, and Thomas Scheurer

Chapter 12. Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh

Brian D. Smith and Elisabeth Fahrni Mansur

Chapter 13. Vatu-i-Ra Seascape, Fiji

Stacy Jupiter, Caleb McClennen, and Elizabeth Matthews

Chapter 14. Wider Caribbean Region

Marianne Fish

PART 5: MONTANE LANDSCAPES

Chapter 15. Altai-Sayan, Eurasia

Yuri Badenkov, Tatyana Yashina, and Graeme Worboys

Chapter 16. Great Eastern Ranges, Australia

Ian Pulsford, Graeme Worboys, Gary Howling, and Thomas Barrett

Chapter 17. Madrean Sky Islands, North America

Laura López-Hoffman and Adrian Quijada-Mascareñas

Chapter 18. The Northern Appalachian/Acadian Ecoregion, North America

Stephen C. Trombulak, Robert F. Baldwin, Joshua J. Lawler, Jeffrey Hepinstall-Cymerman, and Mark G. Anderson

Chapter 19. Yellowstone to Yukon, North America

Charles C. Chester, Jodi A. Hilty, and Wendy L. Francis

PART 6: POLAR LAND TO SEASCAPES

Chapter 20. Arctic Alaska, USA

Steve Zack and Joe Liebezeit

Chapter 21. Antarctica

David Ainley and Tina Tin

PART 7: LESSONS LEARNED

Chapter 22. Moving Forward on Climate Change Science, Planning, and Action

Jodi A. Hilty, Molly S. Cross, and Charles C. Chester

References

Contributors

Index.