Are existing biodiversity conservation strategies appropriate in a changing climate?

Mapping Conservation Strategies under a Changing Climate

Beyond predictions: biodiversity conservation in a changing climate.

Climate change is predicted to become a major threat to biodiversity in the 21st century, but accurate predictions and effective solutions have proved difficult to formulate. Alarming predictions have come from a rather narrow methodological base, but a new, integrated science of climate-change biodiversity assessment is emerging, based on multiple sources and approaches. Drawing on evidence fr...

Effective climate change adaptation strategies for biodiversity conservation

Effective Climate Change (CC) adaptation strategies for biodiversity conservation have been heavily discussed recently. Currently, there are ∼650 CC adaptation recommendations such as managing healthy vegetation on slopes (Veech, 2003), terrestrial and inland water systems (Settele et al., 2014), landscape restoration efforts (Pradhan and Shrestha, 2007), creation and protection of climate refu...

Conservation Medicine: the Changing View of Biodiversity

Meffe's (1999) editorial in Conservation Biology established a timely point of discussion on the intersection between conservation biology and medicine. As Meffe points out, conservation biology is becoming increasingly multidisciplinary. To that end, the editorial primarily considers conservation medicine, meaning health, both human and animal, considered in an ecological context. But the unde...

Regional climate change adaptation strategies for biodiversity conservation in a midcontinental region of North America

0006-3207/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.03.030 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 612 624 3242; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S. Galatow Frelich), [email protected] (L. Phillips-Mao). Scenario planning should be an effective tool for developing responses to climate change but will depend on ecological assessments of broad enough scope to support decisi...