Climate change and biodiversity conservation: impacts, adaptation strategies and future research directions.
The impacts of climate change pose fundamental challenges for current approaches to biodiversity conservation. Changing temperature and precipitation regimes will interact with existing drivers such as habitat loss to influence species distributions despite their protection within reserve boundaries. In this report we summarize a suite of current adaptation proposals for conservation, and highlight some key issues to be resolved.
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory 4 Floor, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4 Canada.
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