The journal Conservation Biology has created anopen-access online virtual issue focused on climate change in honor of the International Year of Biodiversity. Two other virtual issues focus on Connectivity and Corridors and Conservation Social Science Articles in the issue have publication dates ranging from 1988-2009.
According to the site:
"Changes in climate, coincident with changes in human use of terrestrial and aquatic systems, are creating fundamentally new combinations of biological and physical conditions for which there are no past analogues on which to base predictions. Moreover, the extent to which human populations and biological diversity at all levels are affected by global phenomena or factors well outside their immediate geographic and temporal sphere are unprecedented in the history of human society.
Articles in this virtual issue highlight research in all conservation sciences – social, biological, and physical – that may reduce uncertainty about the potential effects of alternative management and investment decisions on diverse conservation targets."
For a list of articles,
A Review of Climate-Change Adaptation Strategies for Wildlife Management and Biodiversity Conservation
Jonathan R. Mawdsley, Robin O'Malley, and Dennis S. Ojima
Paleoecology and the Coarse-Filter Approach to Maintaining Biological Diversity
Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr., George L. Jacobson, Jr., and Thompson Webb, III
Implications of Global Climate Change for Biogeographic Patterns in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
William H. Romme and Monica G. Turner
Can Large-Scale Climatic Models Be Linked with Multiscale Ecological Studies?
Terry L. Root and Stephen H. Schneider
Positive Feedbacks among Forest Fragmentation, Drought, and Climate Change in the Amazon
William F. Laurance and G. Bruce Williamson
Amphibian Breeding and Climate Change
Andrew R. Blaustein, Lisa K. Belden, Deanna H. Olson, David M. Green, Terry L. Root, and Joseph M. Kiesecker
Mortality Gradients within and among Dominant Plant Populations as Barometers of Ecosystem Change During Extreme Drought
Alicyn R. Gitlin, Christopher M. Sthultz, Matthew A. Bowker, Stacy Stumpf, Kristina L. Paxton, Karla Kennedy, Axhel Muñoz, Joseph K. Bailey, and Thomas G. Whitham
A Framework for Debate of Assisted Migration in an Era of Climate Change
Jason S. McLachlan, Jessica J. Hellmann, and Mark W. Schwartz
The Melting Himalayas: Cascading Effects of Climate Change on Water, Biodiversity, and Livelihoods
Jianchu Xu, R. Edward Grumbine, Arun Shrestha, Mats Eriksson, Xuefei Yang, Yun Wang, and Andreas Wilkes
Identifying Reefs of Hope and Hopeful Actions: Contextualizing Environmental, Ecological, and Social Parameters to Respond Effectively to Climate Change, T.R. McClanahan, J.E. Cinner, N.A.J. Graham, T.M. Daw, J. Maina, S.M. Stead, A. Wamukota, K. Brown, V. Venus, and N.V.C. Polunin
Conservation Threats Due to Human-Caused Increases in Fire Frequency in Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems
Alexandra D. Syphard, Volker C. Radeloff, Todd J. Hawbaker, and Susan I. Stewart
Understanding Recent Climate Change, Mark C. Serreze
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