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Climate Change in Wildlands - Pioneering Approaches to Science and Management (Paperback, None Ed.)
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Climate Change in Wildlands - Pioneering Approaches to Science and Management (Paperback, None Ed.)
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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 bread-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 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. Climate Change in
Wildlonds 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.
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