Climate Change in Wildlands: Pioneering Approaches to Science and Management
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- نویسنده : Andrew J. Hansen, William B. Monahan, S. Thomas Olliff, David M.
Description
Theobald Land managers have a responsibility to preserve the ecological integrity of the landscapes they manage. Climate change is a global phenomenon affecting these landscapes in complex ways. Adaptation to climate change to sustain ecological integrity requires understanding how this global phenomenon will play out at the landscape scale. Thus, managers and members of the public who care about natural systems share a need to translate the effects of global climate change to the scale of a park, forest, refuge, or other management unit. Complicating this translation are coincident and interacting changes in land use. The challenge of maintaining the ecological integrity of natural landscapes under the dual onslaught of climate change and land use change is a seemingly hopeless task for those managing locally without direct access to the regional, much less global, picture. Bringing the bigger picture to land managers responding to a rapidly changing world is possible, as the following pages make clear. Required is an integration of the latest observation technologies, including satellites imaging globally at landscape resolutions (i.e., pixel sizes ranging from tens to hundreds of square meters) and an interoperable framework for climate and ecological models to relate climate and land use changes to ecological responses.
