Climate‐change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane
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- Toni Lyn Morelli
- Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center US Geological Survey (USGS) Amherst MA
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- Cameron W Barrows
- Center for Conservation Biology University of California–Riverside Riverside CA
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- Aaron R Ramirez
- Department of Biology and Environmental Studies Reed College Portland OR
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- Jennifer M Cartwright
- Lower Mississippi–Gulf Water Science Center USGS Nashville TN
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- David D Ackerly
- Department of Integrative Biology and Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California–Berkeley Berkeley CA
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- Tatiana D Eaves
- Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD
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- Joseph L Ebersole
- Pacific Ecological Systems Division Office of Research and Development US Environmental Protection Agency Corvallis OR
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- Meg A Krawchuk
- Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society Oregon State University Corvallis OR
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- Benjamin H Letcher
- Conte Anadromous Fish Laboratory USGS Turners Falls MA
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- Mary F Mahalovich
- Northern, Rocky Mountain, Southwestern, and Intermountain Regions, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Moscow ID
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- Garrett W Meigs
- Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society Oregon State University Corvallis OR
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- Julia L Michalak
- School of Environmental and Forest Sciences University of Washington Seattle WA
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- Constance I Millar
- Pacific Southwest Research Station USDA Forest Service Albany CA
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- Rebecca M Quiñones
- Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Westborough MA
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- Diana Stralberg
- Department of Renewable Resources University of Alberta Edmonton Canada
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- James H Thorne
- Department of Environmental Science and Policy University of California–Davis Davis CA
Description
<jats:p>Climate‐change adaptation focuses on conducting and translating research to minimize the dire impacts of anthropogenic climate change, including threats to biodiversity and human welfare. One adaptation strategy is to focus conservation on climate‐change refugia (that is, areas relatively buffered from contemporary climate change over time that enable persistence of valued physical, ecological, and sociocultural resources). In this Special Issue, recent methodological and conceptual advances in refugia science will be highlighted. Advances in this emerging subdiscipline are improving scientific understanding and conservation in the face of climate change by considering scale and ecosystem dynamics, and looking beyond climate exposure to sensitivity and adaptive capacity. We propose considering refugia in the context of a multifaceted, long‐term, network‐based approach, as temporal and spatial gradients of ecological persistence that can act as “slow lanes” rather than areas of stasis. After years of discussion confined primarily to the scientific literature, researchers and resource managers are now working together to put refugia conservation into practice.</jats:p>
Journal
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- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18 (5), 228-234, 2020-06
Wiley
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1360016868166676736
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- DOI
- 10.1002/fee.2189
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- ISSN
- 15409309
- 15409295
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- Data Source
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- Crossref