Sahara and other African deserts

Elsevier eBooks, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 115 - 134

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Climate Change and Recreation in the Western United States: Effects and Opportunities for Adaptation

Journal of Forestry, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 120(4), С. 453 - 472

Опубликована: Фев. 17, 2022

Abstract Climate change is affecting natural resources globally, altering ecosystems that support outdoor recreation. In the western United States, effects such as warming temperatures, increased drought, reduced snowpack, and widespread wildfires will recreation landscape. this article, we synthesize state of science regarding climate on in US summarize adaptation options can reduce consequences change, considering adaptive capacities recreationists managers. We draw from a series assessments which researchers managers collaborated to understand vulnerability develop effective adaptations. conclude building resilience requires shift planning resource allocation decisions, including (1) longer-term timeframes, (2) interdisciplinary teams, (3) collaboration among agencies, providers, communities. Study Implications: Outdoor changing due change. Organized by five recreational categories, study describes synthesizes strategies adapt management these vulnerabilities. Multiple direct indirect factors influence individual recreationists’ land managers’ describe through diagram. Climate-resilient long-term planning, integration multiple areas, across

Язык: Английский

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Climate change should drive mammal defaunation in tropical dry forests

Global Change Biology, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 29(24), С. 6931 - 6944

Опубликована: Окт. 17, 2023

Human-induced climate change has intensified negative impacts on socioeconomic factors, the environment, and biodiversity, including changes in rainfall patterns an increase global average temperatures. Drylands are particularly at risk, with projections suggesting they will become hotter, drier, less suitable for a significant portion of their species, potentially leading to mammal defaunation. We use ecological niche modelling community ecology biodiversity metrics examine potential geographical range shifts non-volant species largest Neotropical dryland, Caatinga, evaluate assemblages. According projections, 85% lose habitats, one quarter projected completely habitats by 2060. This result decrease richness more than 90% assemblages compositional similarity nearby (i.e., reduction spatial beta diversity) 70% Small-sized mammals be most impacted especially highlands. The scenario is even worse eastern half Caatinga where habitat destruction already prevails, compounding threats faced there. While species-specific responses can vary respect dispersal, behavior, energy requirements, our findings indicate that drive biotic homogenization loss, drastic assemblage trophic structure. For successful long-term socioenvironmental policy conservation planning, it critical from forecasts considered.

Язык: Английский

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Hydric physiology and ecology of a federally endangered desert lizard

Conservation Physiology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Animals can respond to extreme climates by behaviourally avoiding it or physiologically coping with it. We understand behavioural and physiological thermoregulation, but water balance has largely been neglected. Climate change includes both global warming changes in precipitation regimes, so improving our understanding of organismal is increasingly urgent. assessed the hydric physiology US federally endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizards (

Язык: Английский

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Behavioural hydroregulation protects against acute effects of drought in a dry-skinned ectotherm

Oecologia, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 201(2), С. 355 - 367

Опубликована: Дек. 23, 2022

Язык: Английский

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