Category Archives: Climate change

Climate change

Species recovery as a carbon offset? Carbon credits proposed for whale conservation

Posted on February 26, 2010 by | Leave a comment

In a talk on 25 February at the American Geophysical Union’s 2010 Ocean Sciences meeting in Portland, Oregon, researcher Andrew Pershing proposed that carbon credits be granted for whale conservation. Continue reading →

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New research on ecosystem conservation and management under climate change

Posted on February 19, 2010 by | 1 Comment

Several papers addressing the challenges of conserving ecosystems under changing climates are forthcoming Continue reading →

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Special Section in Conservation Biology

Posted on February 9, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Related to the posts below, the latest issue (24:1) of Conservation Biology includes a Special Section on “Ecological Responses to Contemporary Climate Change within Species, Communities, and Ecosystems.”

The Section Introduction by Belant, Beever, Gross, and Lawler notes that the 7 papers in this section “provide insights from disciplines ranging from physical climatology, to community ecology, to international policy. They contribute to a deeper understanding of the challenges conservation practitioners and natural resource managers face and to development of more-informed and appropriate responses to those challenges.” Timely!

The paper by Wiens and Bachelet is particularly compelling for those of us working on issues related to wildlife habitat connectivity across multiple spatial scales and jurisdictions.  I am providing a link to the abstract here.  If you can’t access the article, let me know.  Enjoy!

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Fixing the communications failure

Posted on February 4, 2010 by | Leave a comment

People’s grasp of scientific debates can improve if communicators build on the fact that cultural values
influence what and whom we believe, Continue reading →

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Identifying climate refugia and corridors based on species niche models

Posted on February 2, 2010 by | 1 Comment

In the last post, I described two approaches to climate change adaptation planning. Continue reading →

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New paper on “enduring features” approach to climate change adaptation planning

Posted on January 22, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Conservation planners use ‘climate change adaptation’ modeling is to identify areas that connect current and potential future habitat. Continue reading →

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