Handbook of Climate Change and Biodiversity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Water Management and Climate Change in the Focus of International Master Programs in Latin America and the Carribian

   • Frido Reinstorf, Petra Schneider, Raymundo Rodriguez Tejeda, Leslie Santos Roque, Henrietta Hampel, Raul F. Vazquez

   Pages 1-23

3. Mangrove Conservation Policies in the Gulf of Guayaquil

   • Daniel Ortega-Pacheco, Maria J. Mendoza-Jimenez, Paul Herrera

   Pages 25-43

4. Biodiversity Issues Should Be Better Taken into Account in the Energy Transition

   • Agnès Hallosserie, Hélène Soubelet, Hélène Leriche, Patricia Savin, Jean-François Silvain

   Pages 45-59

5. Approaches to Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Assessment in Belarus

   • Siarhei Zenchanka, Nikolai Gorbatchev

   Pages 61-78

6. Community Action for Biodiversity and Forest Conservation and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Wild Coffee Forests (CAFA)

   • Svane Bender, Mesfin Tekle

   Pages 79-92

7. Impact of Climate Change on Sawfly (Suborder: Symphyta) Polinators in Andalusia Region, Spain

   • Jelena Barbir, Luis Oscar Aguado Martín, Xavier Rodriguez Lloveras

   Pages 93-111

8. Coffee, Climate and Biodiversity: Understanding the Carbon Stocks of the Shade Coffee Production System of India

   • Nadesa Panicker Anil Kumar, Amsad Ibrahim Khan Saleem Khan, Vaniyan Balakrishnan

   Pages 113-134

9. Implications for Biodiversity of Potentially Committed Global Climate Change (from Science and Policy)

   • Peter D. Carter

   Pages 135-149

10. Ensuring Co-benefits for Biodiversity, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

    • Risa Smith, Oscar Guevara, Lauren Wenzel, Nigel Dudley, Valeria Petrone-Mendoza, Martin Cadena et al.

    Pages 151-166

11. Sustainable Hydropower: Using Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Increase Local Adaptation Capacity in Brazil

    • Katia Cristina Garcia, Alexandre Mollica, Denise Ferreira de Matos, Luciana Rocha Leal da Paz

    Pages 167-178

12. The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative as an Adaptive Response to Climate Change

    • Charles C. Chester, Jodi A. Hilty

    Pages 179-193

13. Saving the Last Endemic-Church Forests in Ethiopia: The Case of Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve

    • Teowdroes Kassahun, Svane Bender

    Pages 195-210

14. Factors Affecting Communication and Information Sharing for Water Resource Management in Lake Victoria Basin (LVB)

    • Odongtoo Godfrey, Ssebuggwawo Denis, Lating Peter Okidi

    Pages 211-222

15. Climate Sentinels Research Program: Developing Indicators of the Effects of Climate Change on Biodiversity in the Region of New Aquitaine (South West, France)

    • Fanny Mallard, Laurent Couderchet

    Pages 223-241

16. Introducing Spatio-Temporal Conservation Units: Models for Flexible Optimization of Species Persistence Under Climate Change

    • Diogo Alagador, Jorge Orestes Cerdeira

    Pages 243-258

17. The Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Wild Terrestrial Animals in Selected Rural Coastal Regions of Kenya

    • Bertha Othoche

    Pages 259-271

18. Biodiversity Risks for Belarus Connected with the UV Climate Change

    • Aliaksandr Krasouski, Siarhei Zenchanka, Elena Loginova, Maxim Andreev

    Pages 273-286

19. The Impact of Forest Fire on the Biodiversity and the Soil Characteristics of Tropical Peatland

    • Cahyono Agus, Fatikhul F. Azmi, Widiyatno, Zinda R. Ilfana, Dewi Wulandari, Dony Rachmanadi et al.

    Pages 287-303

20. Promoting Climate Agenda and Biodiversity Conservation at the Local Level: A Case for Nepal’s Rural and Urban Municipalities

    • Krishna Roka

    Pages 305-323

This book comprehensively describes essential research and projects on climate change and biodiversity. Moreover, it includes contributions on how to promote the climate agenda and biodiversity conservation at the local level. Climate change as a whole and global warming in particular are known to have a negative impact on biodiversity in three main ways. Firstly, increases in temperatures are detrimental to a number of organisms, especially those in sensitive habitats such as coral reefs and rainforests. Secondly, the pressures posed by a changing climate may lead to sets of responses in areas as varied as phenology, range and physiology of living organisms, often leading to changes in their lifecycles (especially but not only in reproduction), losses in productivity or even death. In some cases, the very survival of very sensitive species may be endangered. Thirdly, the impacts of climate change on biodiversity will be felt in the short term with regard to some species and ecosystems, but also in the medium and long term in many biomes. Indeed, if left unchecked, some of these impacts may be irreversible.

Many individual governments, financial institutes and international donors are currently spending billions of dollars on projects addressing climate change and biodiversity, but with little coordination. Quite often, the emphasis is on adaptation efforts, with little emphasis on the connections between physio-ecological changes and the lifecycles and metabolisms of fauna and flora, or the influence of poor governance on biodiversity. As such, there is a recognized need to not only better understand the impacts of climate change on biodiversity, but to also identify, test and implement measures aimed at managing the many risks that climate change poses to fauna, flora and micro-organisms. In particular, the question of how to restore and protect ecosystems from the impact of climate change also has to be urgently addressed.

This book was written to address this need. The respective papers explore matters related to the use of an ecosystem-based approach to increase local adaptation capacity, consider the significance of a protected areas network in preserving biodiversity in a changing northern European climate, and assess the impacts of climate change on specific species, including wild terrestrial animals. The book also presents a variety of case studies such as the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, the effects of climate change on the biodiversity of Aleppo pine forest in Senalba (Algeria), climate change and biodiversity response in the Niger Delta region, and the effects of forest fires on the biodiversity and the soil characteristics of tropical peatlands in Indonesia. 

This is a truly interdisciplinary publication, and will benefit all scholars, social movements, practitioners and members of governmental agencies engaged in research and/or executing projects on climate change and biodiversity around the world.

• Climate Change Adaptation
• Biodiversity Conservation
• Biodiversity
• Research
• Case Studies
• climate change
• Climate change management

• Faculty of Life Sciences, Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management”, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

  Walter Leal Filho

• International Climate Change Information and Research Programme, Hamburg, Germany

  Jelena Barbir

• School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

  Richard Preziosi

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