Conservation implications of ecological responses to extreme weather and climate events

SL Maxwell, N Butt, M Maron… - Diversity and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Many conservation efforts now focus on mitigating biodiversity loss due to climate
change. While a focus on impacts from mean, long‐term changes in climate is warranted …

Incorporating climate change adaptation into marine protected area planning

KL Wilson, DP Tittensor, B Worm… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is increasingly impacting marine protected areas (MPAs) and MPA
networks, yet adaptation strategies are rarely incorporated into MPA design and …

Incorporating climate change into ecosystem service assessments and decisions: a review

RK Runting, BA Bryan, LE Dee… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is having a significant impact on ecosystem services and is likely to become
increasingly important as this phenomenon intensifies. Future impacts can be difficult to …

Incorporating climate change into spatial conservation prioritisation: A review

KR Jones, JEM Watson, HP Possingham… - Biological Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
To ensure the long-term persistence of biodiversity, conservation strategies must account for
the entire range of climate change impacts. A variety of spatial prioritisation techniques have …

Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean

DP Tittensor, M Beger, K Boerder, DG Boyce… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The impacts of climate change and the socioecological challenges they present are
ubiquitous and increasingly severe. Practical efforts to operationalize climate-responsive …

Integrating connectivity and climate change into marine conservation planning

RA Magris, RL Pressey, R Weeks, NC Ban - Biological Conservation, 2014 - Elsevier
Most applications of systematic conservation planning have not effectively incorporated
biological processes or dynamic threats. We investigated the extent to which connectivity …

Advancing systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services

J Villarreal-Rosas, LJ Sonter, RK Runting… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
Conservation and sustainable management activities are critical for enhancing ecosystem
services. Systematic conservation planning (SCP) is a spatial decision support process used …

Best practices for elevation-based assessments of sea-level rise and coastal flooding exposure

DB Gesch - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Elevation data are critical for assessments of sea-level rise (SLR) and coastal flooding
exposure. Previous research has demonstrated that the quality of data used in elevation …

Conservation planners tend to ignore improved accuracy of modelled species distributions to focus on multiple threats and ecological processes

AIT Tulloch, P Sutcliffe, I Naujokaitis-Lewis… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Limited conservation resources mean that management decisions are often made on the
basis of scarce biological information. Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly …

Coastal retreat and improved water quality mitigate losses of seagrass from sea level rise

MI Saunders, J Leon, SR Phinn… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution and abundance of seagrass ecosystems could change significantly over the
coming century due to sea level rise (SLR). Coastal managers require mechanistic …