Several papers addressing the challenges of conserving ecosystems under changing climates are forthcoming
from scientists that have been involved in projects supported by the Wilburforce Conservation Science Program. In a forthcoming review in the journal TREE, Bethany Bradley and colleagues discuss how new approaches can help predict the response of invasive species to climate change.
In a new review paper in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Joshua Lawler, Lara Hansen (director of EcoAdapt), and co-authors from the Nature Conservancy, discuss how conservation managers can choose interventions that are likely to be robust to the uncertainty inherent in climate change projections. The authors discuss examples applying these principles to three sites across North America.
Lastly, Stuart Chapin heads up a review paper forthcoming in TREE that discusses how the concepts of ecosystem stewardship and sustainability can be adapted to cope with rapidly changing ecosystems, in order to increase the adaptive capacity and resilience of linked social and ecological systems.
In this context, and considering broad-scale management strategies for minimizing biodiversity loss due to climate change, an additional article by our Wilburforce friend, Healy Hamilton, and colleagues is also of interest: http://research.calacademy.org/cabi/news/1766.
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