We are currently facing the likelihood of severe climate change before the close of the
century. In the face of such a global driver of species loss, we urgently need to identify …

Protecting areas for climate adaptation will be essential to ensuring greater opportunity for
species conservation well into the future. However, many proposals for protected areas …

As most regions of the earth transition to altered climatic conditions, new methods are
needed to identify refugia and other areas whose conservation would facilitate persistence …

Anthropogenic climate change is increasingly threatening biodiversity on a global scale.
Rich spots of biodiversity, regions with exceptionally high endemism and/or number of …

Refugia are habitats that components of biodiversity retreat to, persist in and can potentially
expand from under changing environmental conditions (Keppel et al., 2012), facilitating the …

The current and expected consequences of global change challenge traditional strategies
for conserving biodiversity and the ecological patterns and processes that govern such …

Species across the planet are shifting their ranges to track suitable climate conditions in
response to climate change. Given that protected areas have higher quality habitat and often …

Species ranges are seldom at equilibrium with climate, because several interacting factors
determine distribution, including demographic processes, dispersal, land use, disturbance …

The effectiveness of a system of reserves may be compromised under climate change as
species' habitat shifts to nonreserved areas, a problem that may be compounded when well …

Protected areas are a fundamental component of many conservation strategies. They
safeguard some of the best examples of unfragmented natural landscapes in many regions …