Engaging People with Carbon and Climate Change Using Landscape Scale Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring

2017 ◽  
pp. 293-308
Author(s):  
Adam Moolna ◽  
Cheryl Knott ◽  
Daveen Wallis ◽  
David Crawshaw ◽  
Joanne Brierley-Moore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Biodiversity Monitoring

Scaling from stand to landscape scale of climate change mitigation by afforestation and forest management: a modeling approach

2007 ◽  
Vol 86 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 397-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan F. García-Quijano ◽  
Gaby Deckmyn ◽  
Reinhart Ceulemans ◽  
Jos van Orshoven ◽  
Bart Muys
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals The role of temperature and dispersal in moss-microarthropod community assembly after a catastrophic event

2012 ◽  
Vol 367 (1605) ◽  
pp. 3042-3049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giselle Perdomo ◽  
Paul Sunnucks ◽  
Ross M. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Community Assembly ◽  
Size Structure ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Habitat Isolation ◽  
Catastrophic Event ◽  
Extreme Climatic Events ◽  
Effects Of Temperature

There is a clear crisis in the maintenance of biodiversity. It has been generated by a multitude of factors, notably habitat loss, now compounded by the effects of climate change. Predicted changes in climate include increased severity and frequency of extreme climatic events. To manage landscapes, an understanding of the processes that allow recovery from these extreme events is required. Understanding these landscape-scale processes of community assembly and disassembly is hindered by the large scales at which they operate. Model systems provide a means of studying landscape scale processes at tractable scales. Here, we assess the combined effects of temperature and habitat-patch isolation on assembly of naturally diverse moss microarthropod communities after a high-temperature event. We show that community assembly depends on temperature and on degree of habitat isolation. Heated communities were heavily dominated in abundance by two species, one of them relatively large. The resulting size-structure is unlike that seen in the field. Community composition in habitat fragments appears also to have been influenced by the source pool of recolonizing fauna. Our results highlight the value of dispersal in disturbed landscapes and the potential for habitat connectivity to buffer communities from the effects of climate change.

scholarly journals Performance of Multicriteria Evaluation and Heuristic Methods in the Delineation of Green Infrastructure in Areas with Fragmented Landscapes

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022059
Author(s):  
Rocío Losada ◽  
Marcos Boullón ◽  
Andrés M. García ◽  
David Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Simulated Annealing ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Fragmented Landscape ◽  
Heuristic Methods ◽  
Fragmented Landscapes ◽  
Multicriteria Evaluation ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract The EU Commission has established Green infrastructure as one of the tools to preserve biodiversity and grant the provision of ecosystem services that reduce impacts on natural values like those produced by climate change. Therefore, a European green infrastructure strategy has been created that commit member states to incorporate green infrastructure to their territorial planning. Yet, methodologies to delimit green infrastructure so as to facilitate its inclusion in territorial plans are still scarce. The available methods are mainly based in multicriteria evaluation and focus on zoning general green infrastructure areas taking into account the provision potential of just a few ecosystem services. Considering the provision of a wide range of ecosystem services to delimit green infrastructure elements is key to grant their multifunctionality and increase their efficiency mitigating climate change impacts in natural values and human population. However, the lack of data or the high cost to accurately map ecosystem services provision potential, leads most of the time to infer it from land cover data. This creates problems when using these maps to delimit green infrastructure in areas with fragmented landscapes; since identified green infrastructure areas may be irregular and scattered. There are heuristic methods like simulated annealing that have been used to identify ecosystem services hot spots which consider the regularity and size of the identified patches. These methods can be used to delimit green infrastructure in fragmented landscapes finding a balance between the regularity of the areas and their potential to provide multiple ecosystem services. In the current work, a comparison has been made between the performance of simulated annealing and current multicriteria evaluation methods to delimit green infrastructure multifunctional buffer zones in an area of north-western Spain with a very fragmented landscape. Results have shown that simulated annealing delimits more regular multifunctional buffer areas but with a less average potential for providing multiple ecosystem services. The conclusions of the paper indicate that simulated annealing is good produces more regular multifunctional areas but with a lower ESs provision potential. It was observed that in the case of ESs that were mapped considering factors at landscape scale, their provision potential did not vary too much between the multifunctional buffer areas delimited with each of the methods. This indicates that delineation methods may produce more regular GI elements if ESs provision potential is mapped considering the influence of biophysical factors at a wider landscape scale.

Determining vulnerability of stream communities to climate change at the landscape scale

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 1689-1701 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. BUSH ◽  
D. NIPPERESS ◽  
E. TURAK ◽  
L. HUGHES
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Stream Communities

scholarly journals Community-driven tree planting greens the neighbouring landscape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Buxton ◽  
Thomas Powell ◽  
John Ambler ◽  
Chris Boulton ◽  
Arwen Nicholson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Tree Planting ◽  
Indirect Benefits ◽  
Landsat 7 ◽  
Direct And Indirect Benefits

Abstract Nature-based solutions to climate change are growing policy priorities yet remain hard to quantify. Here we use remote sensing to quantify direct and indirect benefits from community-led agroforestry by The International Small group and Tree planting program (TIST) in Kenya. Since 2005, TIST-Kenya has incentivised smallholder farmers to plant trees for agricultural benefit and to sequester CO2. We use Landsat-7 satellite imagery to examine the effect on the historically deforested landscape around Mount Kenya. We identify positive greening trends in TIST groves during 2000-2019 relative to the wider landscape. These groves cover 27,198 hectares, and a further 27,750 hectares of neighbouring agricultural land is also positively influenced by TIST. This positive ‘spill-over’ impact of TIST activity occurs at up to 360m distance. TIST also benefits local forests, e.g. through reducing fuelwood and fodder extraction. Our results show that community-led initiatives can lead to successful landscape-scale regreening on decadal timescales.

scholarly journals Landscape-scale indicators of biodiversity's vulnerability to climate change

Ecosphere ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. art88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk R. Klausmeyer ◽  
M. Rebecca Shaw ◽  
Jason B. MacKenzie ◽  
D. Richard Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Vulnerability To Climate Change

Biodiversity monitoring: some proposals to adequately study species’ responses to climate change

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 3185-3203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginie Lepetz ◽  
Manuel Massot ◽  
Dirk S. Schmeller ◽  
Jean Clobert
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Biodiversity Monitoring ◽  
Species Responses ◽  
Study Species

scholarly journals Local‐ and landscape‐scale impacts of clear‐cuts and climate change on surface water dissolved organic carbon in boreal forests

2015 ◽  
Vol 120 (11) ◽  
pp. 2402-2426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Oni ◽  
Tejshree Tiwari ◽  
José L. J. Ledesma ◽  
Anneli M. Ågren ◽  
Claudia Teutschbein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Surface Water ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Dissolved Organic Carbon ◽  
Boreal Forests ◽  
Landscape Scale
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