Climate change in wildlands : pioneering approaches to science and management

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Label

Climate change in wildlands : pioneering approaches to science and management

Title remainder

pioneering approaches to science and management

Statement of responsibility

edited by Andrew J. Hansen, William B. Monahan, S. Thomas Olliff and David M. Theobald

Contributor

• Theobald, David M.
• Monahan, William B.
• Olliff, S. Thomas
• Hansen, A. J., 1955-

Editor

• Theobald, David M.
• Monahan, William B.
• Olliff, S. Thomas
• Hansen, A. J., 1955-

Subject

• Climatic changes
• Conservation of the environment
• Climatic changes -- United States
• Economic geology
• Electronic books
• Conservation Biology/Ecology
• Rocky Mountains
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate | General
• Ecosystem management -- Appalachian Region
• Appalachian Region
• Ecosystem management
• Wilderness areas -- United States -- Management
• Ecosystem management -- Rocky Mountains
• Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
• Nature Conservation
• United States
• Environment
• Wilderness areas -- Management

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

This volume is a collaboration between scientists and managers, providing a science-derived framework and common-sense approaches for keeping parks and protected areas healthy on a rapidly changing planet. Scientists have been warning for years that human activity is heating up the planet and climate change is under way. In the past century, global temperatures have risen an average of 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, a trend that is expected to only accelerate. But public sentiment has taken a long time to catch up, and we are only just beginning to acknowledge the serious effects this will have on all life on Earth. The federal government is crafting broad-scale strategies to protect wildland ecosystems from the worst effects of climate change. The challenge now is to get the latest science into the hands of resource managers entrusted with protecting water, plants, fish and wildlife, tribal lands, and cultural heritage sites in wildlands. Teaming with NASA and the Department of the Interior, ecologist Andrew James Hansen, along with his team of scientists and managers, set out to understand how climate and land use changes affect montane landscapes of the Rockies and the Appalachians, and how these findings can be applied to wildlands elsewhere. They examine changes over the past century as well as expected future change, assess the vulnerability of species and ecosystems to these changes, and provide new, collaborative management approaches to mitigate expected impacts. A series of case studies showcases how managers might tackle such wide-ranging problems as the effects of warming streams on cold-water fish in Great Smoky Mountain National Park and dying white-bark pine stands in the Greater Yellowstone area. A surprising finding is that species and ecosystems vary dramatically in vulnerability to climate change. While many will suffer severe effects, others may actually benefit from projected changes

Member of

• Lessons from mountain ecosystems

Cataloging source

AZU

Dewey number

333.72

Illustrations

illustrations

Image bit depth

0

Index

no index present

LC call number

• QC981.8.G56
• QH76
• QH75-77

LC item number

C65 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Lessons from mountain ecosystems