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|a Facilitating adaptation of biodiversity to climate change |h [electronic resource] |b a conceptual framework applied to the world's largest Meditteranean-climate woodland |y English. |
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|a [S.l.] : |b Springer, |c 2011-06-21. |
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|a The importance of ecological management for reducing the vulnerability of
biodiversity to climate change is increasingly recognized, yet frameworks to facilitate
a structured approach to climate adaptation management are lacking. We developed
a conceptual framework that can guide identification of climate change impacts and
adaptive management options in a given region or biome. The framework focuses on
potential points of early climate change impact, and organizes these along two main axes. First, it recognizes that climate change can act at a range of ecological scales.
Secondly, it emphasizes that outcomes are dependent on two potentially interacting
and countervailing forces: (1) changes to environmental parameters and ecological
processes brought about by climate change, and (2) responses of component systems
as determined by attributes of resistance and resilience. Through this structure,
the framework draws together a broad range of ecological concepts, with a novel
emphasis on attributes of resistance and resilience that can temper the response of
species, ecosystems and landscapes to climate change. We applied the framework to
the world’s largest remaining Mediterranean-climate woodland, the ‘Great Western
Woodlands’ of south-western Australia. In this relatively intact region, maintaining
inherent resistance and resilience by preventing anthropogenic degradation is of
highest priority and lowest risk. Limited, higher risk options such as fire management,
protection of refugia and translocation of adaptive genes may be justifiable
under more extreme change, hence our capacity to predict the extent of change
strongly impinges on such management decisions. These conclusions may contrast
with similar analyses in degraded landscapes, where natural integrity is already
compromised, and existing investment in restoration may facilitate experimentation
with higher risk options. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Florida International University, |d 2015. |f (dpSobek) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a Eddie J. B. van Etten. |
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|a Grant W. Wardell-Johnson. |
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|u http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI15050359/00001 |y Click here for full text |
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