"No-regrets" pathways for navigating climate change: planning for connectivity with land use, topography, and climate.

ABSTRACT: As both plant and animal species shift their ranges in response to a changing climate, maintaining connectivity between present habitat and suitable habitat in the future will become increasingly important to ensure lasting protection for biodiversity. Because the temporal period commensurate with planning for mid-century change is multi-generational for most species, connectivity designed to facilitate climate adaptation requires pathways with 'stepping-stones' between current and future habitat. These areas should have habitats suitable not only for dispersal, but for all aspects of species lifecycles. We integrated present-day land use, topographic diversity, and projections of shifting climate regimes into a single connectivity modeling approach to identify pathways for mid-century shi

SUBMITTER: Schloss CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285781 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature