The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative as an Adaptive Response to Climate Change

摘要: The need for connectivity across large areas has long been a core principle in the field of conservation biology. Whereas early rationales conserving included maintenance genetic health and protection ecosystem processes, more recently recognized threat posed by climate change to biodiversity only amplified focus on connectivity. Within last decade, term “large landscape conservation” become generic applied efforts intended align on-the-ground programs with scale potential changes resulting from change. An example such an approach was Yellowstone Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y), spanning Rocky Mountains between Canada United States. First conceived 1990s, Y2Y connoted not region, but also science & advocacy network, organization, and—particularly its years—a challenge community broaden vision what will be required effective wildlife over coming century. This includes consideration how, under conditions change, biological communities may disarticulate then reorganize time space, consequent intact land networks allow species move through increasingly human-occupied landscapes. Accordingly, key aspect programmatic work focuses protecting ecologically landscapes as conservation. Today, widely cited groundbreaking expand conceptual North America world.