Putting plasticity into practice for effective conservation actions under climate change

JM Donelson, JD Gaitan-Espitia, AJ Hobday… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity may help species to persist in the face of rapid change, yet we lack a
management-friendly framework for incorporating plasticity into conservation practice. Here …

Connecting research and practice to enhance the evolutionary potential of species under climate change

LM Thompson, LL Thurman, CN Cook… - … Science and Practice, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Resource managers have rarely accounted for evolutionary dynamics in the design or
implementation of climate change adaptation strategies. We brought the research and …

30× 30 for Climate: The History and Future of Climate Change–Integrated Conservation Strategies

L Hannah, GF Midgley - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Global agreement on 30× 30 means an unprecedented last push to define how much nature
will be left on the planet. At the same time that space for nature is being defined, climate …

Understanding local adaptation to prepare populations for climate change

MH Meek, EA Beever, S Barbosa, SW Fitzpatrick… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Adaptation within species to local environments is widespread in nature. Better
understanding this local adaptation is critical to conserving biodiversity. However …

Managing water-land-food nexus towards resource efficiency improvement: A superedge-based analysis of China

Z Yuxi, H Jingke, Q Wen, C Yang, N Danfei - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Challenges at the intersection of water conservation, land protection, food security, and
economic growth cross industrial boundaries, and also involve synergies with multiple policy …

[HTML][HTML] Geographic and taxonomic variation in adaptive capacity among mountain-dwelling small mammals: Implications for conservation status and actions

EA Beever, JL Wilkening, PD Billman, LL Thurman… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Contemporary climate change is modifying the distribution, morphology, phenology,
physiology, evolution, and interspecific interactions of species. Effects of climate change are …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of functional traits responsible for environmental vulnerability of Cedrus deodara in temperate forests of Western Himalaya

R Pandey, M Rawat, A Pathak, D Mehta, N Bala… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change is impacting forest tree species adversely and making the ecological system
vulnerable. The present study attempts to assess the internal vulnerability of Cedrus …

Integrating forest health conditions and species adaptive capacities to infer future trajectories of the high elevation five-needle white pines

AW Schoettle, KS Burns, ST McKinney… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tree mortality rates have been increasing globally with mountainous regions experiencing
higher temperatures and impacts from the expansion and intensification of pests and …

Coupling Coordination and Spatial-Temporal Evolution of Water-Land-Food Nexus: A Case Study of Hebei Province at a County-Level

W Luo, Y Jiang, Y Chen, Z Yu - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Exploring the interaction between water, land, and food (WLF) is a premise guaranteeing to
ease resource restrictions and achieve sustainable development in major agricultural …

Evaluating ecosystem protection and fragmentation of the world's major mountain regions

DM Theobald, AL Jacob, PR Elsen… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conserving mountains is important for protecting biodiversity because they have high beta
diversity and endemicity, facilitate species movement, and provide numerous ecosystem …