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| Property | Value |
| Name | Strategies for Managing the Effects of Climate Change on Wildlife and Ecosystems |
| Release Year | 2008 |
| Primary Author | Organization
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| Description | The scientific literature contains numerous descriptions and predictions of the effects of climate change on wildlife populations and ecosystems. Recently, resource managers and planners have proposed “adaptation strategies” to help wildlife and ecosystems adjust to the effects of a changing climate. In this report, we review the scientific literature on climate change adaptation as it relates to biodiversity conservation and wildlife management. We also review a series of actual climate change adaptation plans that have been developed in the U.S.A., Canada, England, México, and South Africa. From these reviews, we identify eighteen general strategies that could be used to manage the effects of climate change on wildlife and biodiversity.
We recommend that any strategy for managing the effects of climate change on wildlife and ecosystems be deployed within an adaptive management framework, in order to enable managers to learn from previous management activities, and to respond quickly and creatively to the challenges posed by climate change.
For each of the eighteen strategies, we provide a brief summary and discussion of its advantages and disadvantages (including availability of tools or techniques for implementation, as well as relative costs). We present a decision tree to help natural resource managers select the most appropriate set of strategies for use in particular management situations. |
| Sectors | |
| Source | NGO |
| Keywords | Climate Change, Adaptation, Impacts, Conservation, Monitoring, Planning, Management, Watershed, Policy Recommendations |
| Homepage | http://www.heinzctr.org/publications/index.shtml |
