Using in situ management to conserve biodiversity under climate change.

ABSTRACT: Successful conservation will increasingly depend on our ability to help species cope with climate change. While there has been much attention on accommodating or assisting range shifts, less has been given to the alternative strategy of helping species survive climate change through in situ management.Here we provide a synthesis of published evidence examining whether habitat management can be used to offset the adverse impacts on biodiversity of changes in temperature, water availability and sea-level rise. Our focus is on practical methods whereby the local environmental conditions experienced by organisms can be made more suitable.Many studies suggest that manipulating vegetation structure can alter the temperature and moisture conditions experienced by organisms, and several dem

SUBMITTER: Greenwood O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4991270 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature