Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate
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Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate
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.
416 pages | 35 halftones, 37 line drawings, 16 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2012
Biological Sciences: Conservation, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
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Table of Contents
1
Climate Change and Wildlife Conservation
Jedediah F. Brodie, Eric S. Post, and Daniel F. Doak
Part 1 Assessing and Predicting Climate Change Impact on Wildlife
2
Recent and Future Climatic Change and Its Potential Implications for Species and Ecosystems
Karen Carney, Brian Lazar, Charles Rodgers, Diana R. Lane, Russell
Jones, Scott Morlando, and Allison E. Ebbets
3
Natural Selection and Phenotypic Plasticity in Wildlife Adaptation to Climate Change
James D. Austin, Christine W. Miller and Robert J. Fletcher, Jr.
4
Demographic Approaches to Assessing Climate Change Impact: An Application to Pond-Breeding Frogs and Shifting Hydropatterns
John H. Matthews, W. Chris Funk, and Cameron Ghalambor
5
Modeling Range Shifts for Invasive Vertebrates in Response to Climate Change
Damien A. Fordham, H. Resit Akçakaya, Miguel Araújo, and Barry W.
Brook
6
Can We Predict Climate-Driven Changes to Disease Dynamics? Applications for Theory and Management in the Face of Uncertainty
Sara H. Paull and Pieter T.J. Johnson
7
Rapid Assessment of Plant and Animal Vulnerability to Climate Change
Bruce E. Young, Kimberly R. Hall, Elizabeth Byers, Kelly Gravuer,
Geoff Hammerson, Alan Redder, and Kristin Szabo
Part 2 Case Studies of Climatic Effects on Wildlife Conservation
8
Changing Rainfall and Obstructed Movements: Impact on African Ungulates
Norman Owen-Smith and Joseph O. Ogutu
9
Ecological Effects of Climate Change on European Reptiles
Jean François Le Galliard, Manuel Massot, Jean-Pierre Baron, and Jean
Clobert
10
Arctic Shorebirds: Conservation of a Moving Target in Changing Times
Steve Zack and Joe Liebezeit
11
Island Species with Nowhere to Go
Lisa Manne
12
Retreat of the American Pika: Up the Mountain or into the Void?
Chris Ray, Erik Beever, and Scott Loarie
13
Sensitivity of High Arctic Caribou Population Dynamics to Changes in the Frequency of Extreme Weather Events
Joerg Tews, Rebecca Jeppesen, and Carolyn Callaghan
Part 3 Promoting Resilience: Wildlife Management in the Face of Climate Change
14
Harvest Models for Changing Environments
Mark S. Boyce, Kyle Knopff, Joseph Northrup, Justin Pitt, and Liv S.
Vors
15
From Connect-the-Dots to Dynamic Networks: Maintaining and Enhancing Connectivity as a Strategy to Address Climate Change Impacts on Wildlife
Molly S. Cross, Jodi A. Hilty, Gary M. Tabor, Joshua J. Lawler, Lisa J.
Graumlich, and Joel Berger
16
Restoring Predators as a Hedge against Climate Change
Chris C. Wilmers, Chris T. Darimont and Mark Hebblewhite
17
Assisted Colonization of Wildlife Species at Risk from Climate Change
Viorel D. Popescu and Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr.
18
The Integration of Forest Science and Climate Change Policy to Safeguard Biodiversity in a Changing Climate
Nicholas Blay and Michael Dombeck
Concluding Remarks
19
What to Expect and How to Plan for Wildlife Conservation in the Face of Climate Change
Daniel F. Doak, Jedediah F. Brodie, and Eric S. Post
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