The potential negative impacts of global climate change on tropical montane cloud forests

<p>Understanding the impacts of global climate change on the spatiotemporal pattern of hydrologic cycle and water resources is of major importance in highly developed watersheds all over the world. These impacts are strongly dependent on related changes in intensity and frequency of extreme climate events. Implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) and policy approaches at watershed and regional scales is essential for mitigating their negative impacts on soil and water conservation, and sustainable economic development. However, the uncertainty of BMP effectiveness including increasing variability of future water supply and changing magnitudes of nonpoint source pollution has to be accounted for in watershed planning and management. This paper provides a review and discussion on the impacts of global climate change on BMP’s hydrologic performance, the current progress on hydrologic assessment of BMPs, as well as the existing problems and countermeasures. Research challenges and opportunities in the field of hydrologic assessment of BMPs under global climate change are also discussed in this paper.</p>

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The impact of climate change on tourism in Australia – a case study relating to bushfires in Australia in 2019/2020

Studia Periegetica ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0014.3966 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 79-107

Author(s):

Małgorzata Kurleto

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

National Parks ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Preliminary Analysis ◽

Global Climate ◽

Summer Season ◽

Tourism Demand ◽

Negative Impacts ◽

The Impact

The main purpose of the study is to offer a preliminary analysis of the impact of Australian bush fires on tourism in the summer season of 2019/2020. The article addresses issues related to global climate change, including Australia. The author discusses the causes and effects of recent catastrophic fires in Australia, focusing on their negative impacts for tourism. Another problem raised in the article is how climate change in Australia causes bushfires that destroy the nature and life of this country. The study mainly analyses the effects of climate change on the natural environment, especially on the most attractive tourist areas in Australia, i.e. national parks. The study uses the latest information to show the effects of damage caused by fires in Australia, especially in tourism. The author concludes that there is a direct relationship between climate change resulting from global warming and tourism demand.

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Modeling of Logging Industry Dynamics Under the Global Climate Change: the Evidence from Siberian Regions

Journal of Siberian Federal University Humanities & Social Sciences ◽

10.17516/1997-1370-0691 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1870-1879

Author(s):

Anna V. Chugunkova

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Economy ◽

Global Climate ◽

Krasnoyarsk Krai ◽

Climate Change Effects ◽

Logging Industry ◽

Negative Impacts ◽

Wood Harvest ◽

Winter Logging

As a part of global economy, forestry experiences influence of diverse factors and global climate change in particular, which can affect forestry directly or indirectly via changes in qualitative and quantitative assessment of forest growing stocks, and in positive or negative manner. Climate change effects on Russian forestry are still poorly studied and call for more attention in policy-making. One of the direct impacts is shortening of winter logging season duration, which may result in decreasing wood harvests. Using the data on logging volumes in Krasnoyarsk Krai and Irkutsk Oblast and estimated duration of winter logging season on meteorological stations for the retrospective period of 1966-2018, eight ARDL models were evaluated. The modeling results supported the idea of dependence of harvested wood volumes on winter logging season duration across all considered meteorological stations. To reduce negative impacts on logging industry in terms of wood harvest reduction, adaptation activities in forestry are sorely needed

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Climate change and deforestation drive the displacement and contraction of tropical montane cloud forests

10.21203/rs.3.rs-1036888/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Santiago Ramírez-Barahona ◽

Ángela P. Cuervo-Robayo ◽

Kenneth Feeley ◽

Andrés Ortiz-Rodríguez ◽

Antonio Vásquez-Aguilar ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Cloud Forest ◽

Vascular Plant ◽

Cloud Forests ◽

Tropical Montane Forests ◽

Population Sizes ◽

And Migration ◽

Tropical Montane Cloud Forests ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

Abstract Global climate change and habitat loss are displacing tropical montane forests along mountain slopes1–4. Cloud forests are one of the most diverse and fragile of these montane ecosystems5–8, yet little is known about the historical and ongoing impacts of anthropogenic disturbances on these forests. Here we assess historical (1901–2016) changes in the altitudinal range of vascular plant species in Mesoamerican cloud forests and evaluate the relative impacts of climate change and land-use alterations. By analysing thousands of occurrence records from public biological collections, we uncovered common altitudinal shifts across species and suggest an overall contraction of cloud forests starting in the late 1970s. We infered a pervasive and interrelated impact of rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and deforestation on the distribution of cloud forest species across Mesoamerica. Over the last fifty years, cloud forests have declined due to deforestation and warmer and more (seasonally) arid climates9–11. This is pushing species’ to contract their altitudinal ranges and may lead to an increasing probability of abrupt and devastating declines of population sizes, local adaptation, and migration.

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