Planning for climate change through additions to a national protected area network: implications for cost and configuration.

ABSTRACT: Expanding the network of protected areas is a core strategy for conserving biodiversity in the face of climate change. Here, we explore the impacts on reserve network cost and configuration associated with planning for climate change in the USA using networks that prioritize areas projected to be climatically suitable for 1460 species both today and into the future, climatic refugia and areas likely to facilitate climate-driven species movements. For 14% of the species, networks of sites selected solely to protect areas currently climatically suitable failed to provide climatically suitable habitat in the future. Protecting sites climatically suitable for species today and in the future significantly changed the distribution of priority sites across the USA-increasing relative protection i

SUBMITTER: Lawler JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7017760 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature