Climate change in wildlands pioneering approaches to science and management

This volume is a collaboration between scientists and managers, providing a science-derived framework and common-sense approaches for keeping parks and protected areas healthy on a rapidly changing planet. Scientists have been warning for years that human activity is heating up the planet and climat...

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Otros Autores: Hansen, A. J., 1955- (-), Monahan, William B., Olliff, S. Thomas, Theobald, David M.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press 2016.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Lessons from mountain ecosystems.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: Why Study Climate Change in Mountains?- PART I: Approaches for Climate Adaptation Planning
  • 2. Linking Climate Science and Management
  • 3. Challenges and Approaches for Integrating Climate Science into Federal Land Management
  • PART II: Climate and Land Use Change
  • 4. Historical and Projected Climates to Support Climate Adaptation across the Northern Rocky Mountains
  • 5. Foundational Analyses of Historical and Projected Climates as a Basis for Climate Change Exposure and Adaptation Potential across the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative
  • 6. Assessing Vulnerability to Land Use and Climate Change at Landscape Scales: Landforms and Physiographic Diversity as Coarse-Filter Targets Representing Species and Processes
  • PART III: Ecological Consequences and Vulnerabilities
  • 7. Quantifying Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Processes in the Great Northern and Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
  • 8. Modeling Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation for National Parks in the Eastern United States
  • 9. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tree Species and Biome Types in the United States Northern Rocky Mountains
  • 10. Past, Present, and Future Climate Shapes the Vegetation Communities of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem across Elevation Gradients
  • 11. Assessing the Vulnerability of Tree Species to Climate Change in the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative
  • 12. Likely Responses of Native and Invasive Salmonid Fishes to Climate Change in the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains
  • PART IV. Managing under Climate Change
  • 13. Opportunities, Challenges, Approaches to Achieving Climate-Smart Adaptation
  • 14. Perspectives on Responding to Climate Change at Rocky Mountain National Park
  • 15. Case Study: Whitebark Pine in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
  • 16. Assessing Success in Sustaining Wildland Ecosystems: Insights from Greater Yellowstone
  • 17. Conclusion
  • Contributors
  • Index.