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Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate
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2012
About this book
Human-induced climate change is emerging as one of the gravest threats to biodiversity in history, and while a vast amount of literature on the ecological impact of climate change exists, very little has been dedicated to the management of wildlife populations and communities in the wake of unprecedented habitat changes. Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate is an essential resource, bringing together leaders in the fields of climate change ecology, wildlife population dynamics, and environmental policy to examine the impacts of climate change on populations of terrestrial vertebrates. Chapters assess the details of climate change ecology, including demographic implications for individual populations, evolutionary responses, impacts on movement patterns, alterations of species interactions, and predicting impacts across regions. The contributors also present a number of strategies by which conservationists and wildlife managers can counter or mitigate the impacts of climate change as well as increase the resilience of wildlife populations to such changes. A seminal contribution to the fields of ecology and conservation biology, Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate will serve as the spark that ignites a new direction of discussions about and action on the ecology and conservation of wildlife in a changing climate.
Author / Editor information
Jedediah F. Brodie is assistant professor of conservation ecology at the University of British Columbia. Eric S. Post is professor of biology at the Pennsylvania State University. Daniel F. Doak is professor in the Department of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming.
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“Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate provides an important, cutting-edge, and forward-looking contribution toward our understanding of climate effects on wildlife species. Much of our current understanding in this field is largely a sketch of macroecological patterns and inferences. This book takes us a long step forward by filling in the sketchy understanding with detailed and nuanced biological information, not only about species-habitat associations, but also about species’ potential to adapt or migrate and the consequences for whole ecosystem structure and functioning. The book’s strength is that it is a compendium of work by both academic scientists and front-line conservation practitioners who are wrestling with ideas and practical ways to conserve wildlife in the face of changing climate. These essays set the standard for providing scientific insights for the practice of wildlife conservation in an era of changing climate.”
— Oswald Schmitz, Yale University“Recommended.”
— F. Huettmann, University of Alaska, Choice“With research and practice quickly rising to the new challenges posed by climate change, any synthesis of this field is a moving target. Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate provides an admirable cross-section of this growing body of work. The authors should be congratulated for tackling a subject that is complex, multifaceted, and rapidly advancing.”
— EcologyTopics
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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1. Climate Change and Wildlife Conservation
1 - Part 1. Assessing and Predicting Climate Change Impact on Wildlife
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2. Recent and Future Climatic Change and Its Potential Implications for Species and Ecosystems
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3. Natural Selection and Phenotypic Plasticity in Wildlife Adaptation to Climate Change
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4. Demographic Approaches to Assessing Climate Change Impact: An Application to Pond-Breeding Frogs and Shifting Hydropatterns
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5. Modeling Range Shifts for Invasive Vertebrates in Response to Climate Change
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6. Can We Predict Climate-Driven Changes to Disease Dynamics? Applications for Theory and Management in the Face of Uncertainty
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7. Rapid Assessment of Plant and Animal Vulnerability to Climate Change
129 - Part 2. Case Studies of Climatic Effects on Wildlife Conservation
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8. Changing Rainfall and Obstructed Movements: Impact on African Ungulates
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9. Ecological Eff ects of Climate Change on European Reptiles
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10. Arctic Shorebirds: Conservation of a Moving Target in Changing Times
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11. Island Species with Nowhere to Go
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12. Retreat of the American Pika: Up the Mountain or into the Void?
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13. Sensitivity of High Arctic Caribou Population Dynamics to Changes in the Frequency of Extreme Weather Events
271 - Part 3. Promoting Resilience: Wildlife Management in the Face of Climate Change
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14. Harvest Models for Changing Environments
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15. From Connect-the-Dots to Dynamic Networks: Maintaining and Enhancing Connectivity as a Strategy to Address Climate Change Impacts on Wildlife
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16. Restoring Predators as a Hedge against Climate Change
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17. Assisted Colonization of Wildlife Species at Risk from Climate Change
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18. The Integration of Forest Science and Climate Change Policy to Safeguard Biodiversity in a Changing Climate
369 - Concluding Remarks
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19. What to Expect and How to Plan for Wildlife Conservation in the Face of Climate Change
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Index
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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December 3, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9780226074641
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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416
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35 halftones, 37 line drawings, 16 tables
eBook ISBN:
9780226074641
Keywords for this book
conservation; animals; plant life; wildlife preservation; biology; ecology; climatology; zoology; environmentalism; natural science; human-induced climate change; biodiversity; ecological impact; habitat changes; population dynamics; environmental policy; social issues; current affairs; movement patterns; evolutionary responses; species interactions; conservationists; managers; bioclimatology; phenotypic plasticity; animal vulnerability; extreme weather events
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;