Climate change in wildlands : pioneering approaches to science and management /: pioneering approaches to science and management. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrew J. Hansen, William B. Monahan, S. Thomas Olliff and David M. Theobald.
• Editors: Hansen, A. J, 1955-; Monahan, William B; Olliff, S. Thomas; Theobald, David M
• Contents: Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Why Study Climate Change in Mountains?- PART I: Approaches for Climate Adaptation Planning -- 2. Linking Climate Science and Management -- 3. Challenges and Approaches for Integrating Climate Science into Federal Land Management -- PART II: Climate and Land Use Change -- 4. Historical and Projected Climates to Support Climate Adaptation across the Northern Rocky Mountains -- 5. Foundational Analyses of Historical and Projected Climates as a Basis for Climate Change Exposure and Adaptation Potential across the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative -- 6. Assessing Vulnerability to Land Use and Climate Change at Landscape Scales: Landforms and Physiographic Diversity as Coarse-Filter Targets Representing Species and Processes -- PART III: Ecological Consequences and Vulnerabilities -- 7. Quantifying Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Processes in the Great Northern and Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperatives -- 8. Modeling Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation for National Parks in the Eastern United States -- 9. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tree Species and Biome Types in the United States Northern Rocky Mountains -- 10. Past, Present, and Future Climate Shapes the Vegetation Communities of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem across Elevation Gradients -- 11. Assessing the Vulnerability of Tree Species to Climate Change in the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative -- 12. Likely Responses of Native and Invasive Salmonid Fishes to Climate Change in the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains -- PART IV. Managing under Climate Change -- 13. Opportunities, Challenges, Approaches to Achieving Climate-Smart Adaptation -- 14. Perspectives on Responding to Climate Change at Rocky Mountain National Park -- 15. Case Study: Whitebark Pine in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem -- 16. Assessing Success in Sustaining Wildland Ecosystems: Insights from Greater Yellowstone -- 17. Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Washington, DC : Island Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 391 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 333.72; Environment; Climatic changes -- United States; Wilderness areas -- United States -- Management; Ecosystem management -- Rocky Mountains; Ecosystem management -- Appalachian Region; Climatic changes; Ecosystem management; Wilderness areas -- Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General; Nature -- Environmental Conservation & Protection; Science -- Earth Sciences -- General; Conservation of the environment; Economic geology; Nature Conservation; Conservation biology; Appalachian Region; Rocky Mountains; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781610917131; 1610917138; 1610915445; 9781610915441
• Related ISBNs: 9781610915441; 9781610917124
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