Climate and Conservation
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Climate and Conservation presents case studies from around the world of leading-edge 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. Projects profiled range from North American grasslands to boreal forests to coral reefs to Alpine freshwater environments.
Chapter authors have extensive experience in their respective regions and are actively engaged in working on climate-related issues. The result is a collection of geographical case studies that allows for effective cross-comparison while at the same time recognizing the uniqueness of each situation and locale.
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. It informs readers of how a diverse set of conservation actors have been responding to climate change at a scale that matches the problem, and is an essential contribution for anyone involved with large-scale biodiversity conservation.
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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
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