Conservation implications of ecological responses to extreme weather and climate events

By S. Maxwell, N. Butt, Martine Maron, Clive McAlpine, S. Chapman, A. Ullmann, Daniel B. Segan, James E. M. Watson. Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity, 2018

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Many conservation efforts now focus on mitigating biodiversity loss due to climate change. While a focus on impacts from mean, long‐term changes in climate is warranted, the vast majority of conservation plans largely ignore another key factor of climate change—changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather and climate events. A typology of the full range and severity of ecological responses to extreme events would help underpin tracking of their impacts.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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