Overview
- Outlines a new approach to preservation and management of montane environments for wildland managers
- Examines the effects of climate and land-use changes on wildland ecosystems
- Offers an approachable introduction to landscape-scale impacts of climate change and land use change in wildlands
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Approaches For Climate Adaptation Planning
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Climate And Land Use Change
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Ecological Consequences and Vulnerabilities
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About this book
Scientists have been warning for years that human activity is heating up the planet and climate change is under way. We are only just beginning to acknowledge the serious effects this will have on all life on Earth. The federal government is crafting broad‑scale strategies to protect wildland ecosystems from the worst effects of climate change. One of the greatest challenges is to get the latest science into the hands of resource managers entrusted with vulnerable wildland ecosystems. This book examines climate and land‑use changes in montane environments, assesses the vulnerability of species and ecosystems to these changes, and provides resource managers with collaborative management approaches to mitigate expected impacts.
Climate Change in Wildlands proposes a new kind of collaboration between scientists and managers—a science‑derived framework and common‑sense approaches for keeping parks and protected areas healthy on a rapidly changing planet.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
William B. Monahan oversees the Quantitative Analysis Program for the Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team of the USDA Forest Service. Bill’s work focuses on how forests across the United States respond to environmental changes and insect and disease disturbances operating across multiple spatiotemporal scales. Previously, he was an ecologist with the US National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program in Fort Collins, CO.
David M. Theobald is a senior scientist at Conservation Science Partners in Fort Collins, Colorado, and adjunct professor at Colorado State University. He applies concepts from geography and landscape ecology and methods from spatial analysis to understand patterns of landscape change and their effects on watersheds, fish and wildlife habitat and biodiversity.
S. Thomas Olliff is the co-coordinator of the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative and Division Chief of Landscape Conservation and Climate Change for the National Park Service Intermountain Region. He is the natural resources representative on the NPS Revisiting Leopold Implementation Team.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change in Wildlands
Book Subtitle: Pioneering Approaches to Science and Management
Editors: Andrew J. Hansen, William B. Monahan, S. Thomas Olliff, David M. Theobald
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-713-1
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Island Press 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-713-1Published: 27 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 391
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nature Conservation, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences