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The Climate Change Conundrum: What the Future is Beginning to Look Like for Wildlife
Posted by Jordan Carlton Schaul of Wildlife SOS on January 10, 2013
I encourage everyone interested in some of the ways that climate change impacts the natural world to read this interview in full at the following link.
The Climate Change Conundrum: What the Future is Beginning to Look Like for Wildlife ? News Watch
Posted by Jordan Carlton Schaul of Wildlife SOS on January 10, 2013
Jordan:...What are the relationships among climate change mitigation, biodiversity and land degradation?
Michael: There is no doubt that maintaining biological diversity should be a major goal in climate change mitigation. Diversity contributes to the resilience of an ecosystem to perturbations and disturbance. Furthermore, ecosystems and their biodiversity have important roles to play in sequestering carbon (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081205153515.htm; http://takvera.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/seagrass-meadows-are-key-carbon-sinks.html). Informed decision-making and careful management of natural ecosystems for mitigation can enhance this role and help to avoid potential negative impacts. As climate change increasingly puts a strain on ecosystems and their animal and plant populations, it is important to find ways to increase their resilience to current and future climate change. In addition, some species, may be able to adapt rapidly to climate change through natural selection (http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/~barrylab/classes/climate_change/Hoffmann_Sgro_nature_2011_adaptation.pdf ; http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/160/4/1728.full ), or through changes in phenology (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01765.x/abstract)...
I encourage everyone interested in some of the ways that climate change impacts the natural world to read this interview in full at the following link.
The Climate Change Conundrum: What the Future is Beginning to Look Like for Wildlife ? News Watch