Beyond Predictions: Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Climate

By Terence P. Dawson, S. T. Jackson, J. House, I. C. Prentice, Georgina M. Mace. Science, 2011

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Hot and bothered: Using trait-based approaches to assess climate change vulnerability in reptiles (2016, methodology): “Trait-based approaches have been widely adopted by conservation planning agencies as a prioritization technique for climate change-affected species (Dawson et al., 2011; Pacifici et al., 2015; Williams et al., 2008); they can, however, still be constrained by limited data availability, especially fo”
Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change (2016, background): “Although well studied from both evolutionary and ecological perspectives, knowledge of local adaptation mechanisms and phenotypic plasticity remains underexploited in the context of climate change (Dawson et al. 2011).”
Assessing species vulnerability to climate and land use change: the case of the Swiss breeding birds (2014, background): “Land use change has certainly been the major driver of biodiversity loss in the past century due to its immediate impact on the habitats of many species, but climate change will probably become as important in the next decades in some landscapes (Sekercioglu et al., 2008; Dawson et al., 2011).”
Modelling spread of British wind‐dispersed plants under future wind speeds in a changing climate (2012, background): “Journal of Ecology 2012 British Ecological Society changing climate (Dawson et al. 2011).”
The push and pull of climate change causes heterogeneous shifts in avian elevational ranges (2012, background): “Of critical importance to conservation are reasons why species do not shift their ranges given climate change (Dawson et al., 2011).”
Small mammal responses to environmental change: integrating past and present dynamics (2014, background): “…species have responded to environmental change over past centuries and millennia in order to identify what makes certain species and species groups more resilient and others more vulnerable to chronic and cumulative environmental change (National Research Council 2009; Dawson et al. 2011).”
Prescriptive Evolution to Conserve and Manage Biodiversity (2014, background): “Many assessments of the effects of climate change on biodiversity involve species distribution models that predict range contractions and widespread extinctions due to climate change (Dawson et al. 2011).”
Taxonomic bias and international biodiversity conservation research (2017, background): “That information can then be incorporated into integrative frameworks (Dawson et al. 2011) to better predict how threatened taxa may be affected by different threats.”
How to understand species’ niches and range dynamics: a demographic research agenda for biogeography (2012, background): “Such range forecasts are widely used to assess the impacts of environmental change on biodiversity (Pereira et al., 2010; Dawson et al., 2011) and increasingly serve as the basis for systematic conservation planning (Pressey et al.”
Global Biodiversity Change: The Bad, the Good, and the Unknown (2012, background): “Species can also adapt to climate change by shifts in elevation (85, 92) or depth (83), shifting life history traits in time (93), or by adapting to the new conditions in their local range through phenotypic plasticity or microevolution (94).”
Exploring consensus in 21st century projections of climatically suitable areas for African vertebrates (2011, background): “BEMs rely on assumptions about the association between climate and species distributions, and their biological realism hinges on additional factors influencing species vulnerability to climatic changes, such as ecophysiological and micro-habitat preferences, phenotypic plasticity, evolutionary rates”
Ontario freshwater fishes demonstrate differing range‐boundary shifts in a warming climate (2014, background): “This relationship may also be strengthened by considering differences in species adaptive capacities (tolerance to climate change) and the arrangement of available suitable habitat across the province (Angert et al., 2011; Dawson et al., 2011).”