Conservation in the Context of Climate Change: Practical Guidelines for Land Protection at Local Scales

摘要: Climate change will affect the composition of plant and animal communities in many habitats geographic settings. This presents a dilemma for conservation programs – portfolio protected lands we now have achieve goal conserving biodiversity future when ecological occurring within them change? significantly alter communities, but geophysical underpinnings these landscapes, such as landform, elevation, soil, geological properties, largely remain same. Studies show that extant landscapes with diversity characteristics support diverse communities. Therefore, geophysically likely species assemblages future, although which be present is not altogether clear. Following protocols advanced studies spanning large regions, developed down-scaled, high spatial resolution measure complexity based on Ecological Land Units (ELUs) examined relationship between richness, community ELU richness (number different types). We found had greater variety types trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants. representation to inform local practitioners, land trusts, potential targets faunas floras despite impact climate change.