Climate Change in Wildlands Pioneering Approaches to Science and Management /
This volume is a collaboration between scientists and managers, providing a science-derived framework and common-sense approaches for keeping parks and protected areas healthy on a rapidly changing planet. Scientists have been warning for years that human activity is heating up the planet and climat...
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Washington, DC :
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-713-1 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Why Study Climate Change in Mountains?- PART I: Approaches for Climate Adaptation Planning
- 2. Linking Climate Science and Management
- 3. Challenges and Approaches for Integrating Climate Science into Federal Land Management
- PART II: Climate and Land Use Change
- 4. Historical and Projected Climates to Support Climate Adaptation across the Northern Rocky Mountains
- 5. Foundational Analyses of Historical and Projected Climates as a Basis for Climate Change Exposure and Adaptation Potential across the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative
- 6. Assessing Vulnerability to Land Use and Climate Change at Landscape Scales: Landforms and Physiographic Diversity as Coarse-Filter Targets Representing Species and Processes
- PART III: Ecological Consequences and Vulnerabilities
- 7. Quantifying Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Processes in the Great Northern and Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
- 8. Modeling Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation for National Parks in the Eastern United States
- 9. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tree Species and Biome Types in the United States Northern Rocky Mountains
- 10. Past, Present, and Future Climate Shapes the Vegetation Communities of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem across Elevation Gradients
- 11. Assessing the Vulnerability of Tree Species to Climate Change in the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative
- 12. Likely Responses of Native and Invasive Salmonid Fishes to Climate Change in the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains
- PART IV. Managing under Climate Change
- 13. Opportunities, Challenges, Approaches to Achieving Climate-Smart Adaptation
- 14. Perspectives on Responding to Climate Change at Rocky Mountain National Park
- 15. Case Study: Whitebark Pine in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
- 16. Assessing Success in Sustaining Wildland Ecosystems: Insights from Greater Yellowstone
- 17. Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index.