Using the Conservation Standards Framework to Address the Effects of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Climate, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 10(2), P. 13 - 13

Published: Jan. 22, 2022

Climate change has challenged biodiversity conservation practitioners and planners. In this paper, we provide scalable guidance on integrating climate into planning adaptive management that results in the most appropriate strategies. This integrated “Climate-Smart Conservation Practice” focuses analyzing potential impact of species, ecosystems, ecosystem services, combined with “conventional” (non-climate) threats, incorporating knowledge projects. The is based already widely-used “Open Standards for Practice Conservation”, an application systems thinking management, which been successfully applied to thousands Our framework emphasizes a methodical analysis impacts projects support more productive goals strategy development. We two case studies showing applicability flexibility framework. An initial key element developing “situation models” document both current future threats affecting while interactions between conventional threats. Guidance also provided how design integrated, climate-smart strategies, detailed theories selected information suggestions presented are intended break down steps make process approachable, teams using within systematic process, demonstrate scientists can

Language: Английский

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Cambridge University Press eBooks, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1929 - 2042

Published: June 22, 2023

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Language: Английский

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Soil security—Strategizing a sustainable future for soil

Advances in agronomy, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 70

Published: Nov. 30, 2023

Language: Английский

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Conserving Evolutionary Potential: Combining Landscape Genomics with Established Methods to Inform Plant Conservation

Annual Review of Plant Biology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 75(1), P. 707 - 736

Published: April 10, 2024

Biodiversity conservation requires conserving evolutionary potential-the capacity for wild populations to adapt. Understanding genetic diversity and dynamics is critical informing decisions that enhance adaptability persistence under environmental change. We review how emerging landscape genomic methods provide plant programs with insights into dynamics, including local adaptation its drivers. Landscape approaches explore relationships between variation environments complement rather than replace established population common garden assessing adaptive phenotypic variation, structure, gene flow, demography. Collectively, these inform actions, rescue, maladaptation prediction, assisted flow. The greatest on-the-ground impacts from such studies will be realized when practitioners are actively engaged in research monitoring. the shaping of species an uncertain future.

Language: Английский

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Synthetic microbial communities: A gateway to understanding resistance, resilience, and functionality in spontaneously fermented food microbiomes

Food Research International, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 192, P. 114780 - 114780

Published: July 16, 2024

This review delves into the intricate traits of microbial communities encountered in spontaneously fermented foods (SFF), contributing to resistance, resilience, and functionality drivers. Traits SFF microbiomes comprise fluctuations community composition, genetic stability, condition-specific phenotypes. Synthetic (SMCs) serve as a portal for mechanistic insights strategic re-programming communities. Current literature underscores pivotal role shaping quality attributes preserving cultural heritage their origin. In contrast starter driven fermentations that tend be more controlled but lacking capacity maintain or reproduce complex flavors intricacies found SFF. SMCs, therefore, become indispensable tools, providing nuanced understanding control over food microbiomes. They empower prediction engineering interactions metabolic pathways with aim optimizing outcomes processing. Summarizing current application SMCs foods, there is still space improvement. Challenges achieving stability reproducibility are identified, stemming from non-standardized approaches. The future direction should involve embracing standardized protocols, advanced monitoring synthetic biology applications. A holistic, multi-disciplinary approach paramount unleashing full potential fostering sustainable innovative applications systems.

Language: Английский

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Active management: a definition and considerations for implementation in forests of temperate Australia

Australian Forestry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 87(3), P. 125 - 147

Published: July 2, 2024

Active management is often mentioned but rarely defined in current policies and strategies for native forests of temperate Australia. Lack clarity about active could mean that to support forest health human involvement with are not fit purpose. In this paper, we summarise the policy context Victoria (as a case study Australia) review representations broader temperate-forest literature, including its place relation associated concepts like adaptive management. Based on review, provide definition focuses activities – deliberate practices diverse purposes goals situated within operational approaches (e.g. frameworks) enact overarching philosophy paradigm(s) Our acknowledges multiple potential framings encompass philosophies sociocultural relationships require governance structures foster inclusive understandings. Additional considerations implementing Australia's include refreshed visions management, clearly stated criteria choosing among under uncertainty, revised guidelines practices, commitment building evidence base through iterative learning targeted experiments an or analogous framework.

Language: Английский

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A regional integrated assessment of the impacts of climate change and of the potential adaptation avenues for Quebec's forests

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 53(8), P. 556 - 578

Published: March 23, 2023

Regional analyses assessing the vulnerabilities of forest ecosystems and sector to climate change are key considering heterogeneity impacts as well fact that risks, opportunities, adaptation capacities might differ regionally. Here we provide Integrated Assessment on Quebec's forests, a work involved several research teams focused commercial forests potential solutions. Our showed will alter ecological processes within forests. These changes result in important modifications landscapes. Harvest cumulate with effects further future landscapes, which also have consequences wildlife habitats (including woodland caribou habitat), avian biodiversity, carbon budget, variety landscape values for Indigenous peoples. The be crucial mitigate ecosystem goods services improve their resilience. Moving forward, broad range measures, notably through reducing harvest levels, should explored help strike balance among social, ecological, economic values. We conclude without adaptation, strong negative likely affect

Language: Английский

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Where can managers effectively resist climate‐driven ecological transformation in pinyon–juniper woodlands of the US Southwest?

Global Change Biology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 29(15), P. 4327 - 4341

Published: May 29, 2023

Pinyon-juniper (PJ) woodlands are an important component of dryland ecosystems across the US West and potentially susceptible to ecological transformation. However, predicting woodland futures is complicated by species-specific strategies for persisting reproducing under drought conditions, uncertainty in future climate, limitations inferring demographic rates from forest inventory data. Here, we leverage new models quantify how climate change expected alter population demographics five PJ tree species place our results context a adaptation framework resist, accept, or direct Two study species, Pinus edulis Juniperus monosperma, projected experience declines, driven both rising mortality decreasing recruitment rates. These declines reasonably consistent various futures, magnitude growth due less than will respond changing climate. We assess effectiveness management reduce density mitigate competition, use classify southwest into areas where transformation (a) unlikely can be passively resisted, (b) likely but may resisted active management, (c) unavoidable, requiring managers accept trajectory. Population promote warmer drier communities southwest, encompassing 37.1%-81.1% sites, depending on scenarios. Less 20% sites transform away have potential retain existing composition reduction. Our inform this strategy could successfully resist coming decades allow portfolio design approach geographic range woodlands.

Language: Английский

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Evaluating climate change impacts on ecosystem resources through the lens of climate analogs

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 6

Published: Jan. 4, 2024

As disturbances continue to increase in magnitude and severity under climate change, there is an urgency develop climate-informed management solutions resilience help sustain the supply of ecosystem services over long term. Towards this goal, we used analog modeling combined with logic-based conditions assessments quantify future resource stability (FRS) mid-century climate. Analog models were developed for nine projections 1 km cells across California. For each model, assessed at focal cell comparison top 100 locations using fuzzy logic. Model outputs provided a measure support proposition that given would be stable change. Raster six resources exhibited high degree spatial variability FRS was largely driven by biophysical gradients State, cross-correlation among suggested similarities responses Overall, about one-third State low indicating lack potential losses time. Areas most vulnerable change occurred lower elevations and/or warmer winter summer environments, whereas higher elevation, or mid-elevations summers cooler winters. The approach offered replicable methodology assess large regions multiple, diverse resources. can readily integrated into decision systems guide strategic investments.

Language: Английский

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Enhancing climate change planning and adaptive management in marine protected areas through targets, thresholds, and social-ecological objectives

Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: March 13, 2024

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are being deployed globally to protect the Earth’s biodiversity in rapidly changing oceans. Nesting climate change considerations within adaptive MPA management and monitoring is becoming a more common approach, while increasingly addressed planning, implementation gaps remain. This study applied robustness index (CRI) plans assess how outlined site- regional-level plans. Previously developed plans, CRI scores based on their degree of incorporation adaptation principles, including core elements management. We supplemented our findings for by associating MPAs United States with selected traits, as well examining specific physical, ecological, sociological impacts that were considered scope subset found considerable actionable targets thresholds consistent previous evaluating demonstrating cycle incomplete many cases. consider importance completing strategy, explore roles social-ecological objectives local partnerships avenues continue improve outcomes world.

Language: Английский

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