IMPLEMENTING THE DECLARATION OF THE

 60TH ANNUAL DPI/NGO CONFERENCE

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REFERENCES on the 

Impact of Climate Change on 

Biodiversity, Forestry and Conservation
ADMIN & EDITORS CHAPTERS & WORKING GRPS WELCOME

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COORDINATOR
Dr. Dominique Bachelet
Director, Climate Change Science
The Nature Conservancy
120 East Union, Suite 214
Olympia WA 98501
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Fax: (360) 956-9445
http://www.fsl.orst.edu/~bachelet  (bio)
http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/

dbachelet@TNC.ORG


THE ISSUE  
  The purpose of this working group is to review current scientific and empirical evidence on impact of climate change on biodiversity, forestry and conservation, and to recommend specific actions that can be implemented by UN agencies, governments and civil society at large. 

The link between climatic phenomena is well documented.  We know that rapid warming will negatively impact ecosystems and reduce biodiversity.  Even regular phenomena like El Niño do this, damaging forests, increasing insects and harming many species.  Normal events, when magnified by climate change and man's activities are creating a bio-diversity emergency, making it important to build on Bali, the Kyoto Protocol and the Buenos Aires Conference.  This working group proposes to articulate practical actions that civil society should take now to protect our our many species  It will also develop specific recommendations from civil society to the Secretary General on what we hope he will recommend to the world.

CHAPTER REFERENCES As of May 8, 2008

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  2. Araújo MB Cabeza M, Thuiller W, et al. 2004. Would climate change drive species out of reserves? An assessment of existing reserve-selection methods. Glob Change Biol 10: 1618–26.

  3. Araújo MB, and Rahbek C. 2006. How does climate change affect biodiversity? Science 313: 1396–97.

  4. Hamann A. and T.L. Wang. Models of climatic normals for genecology and climate change studies in British Columbia. Ag and Forest Met 128: 211-221.

  5. Hannah L, Midgley GF, Hughes G, and Bomhard B. 2005. The view from the Cape: extinction risk, protected areas and climate change. BioScience 55: 231–42.

  6. Hannah L., Midgley G., Andelman S., Araújo M., Hughes G., Martinez-Meyer E., Pearson R., and Williams P. 2007 Protected areas needs in a changing climate. Frontiers in Ecology 5: 131-138.

  7. IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). 2001. Climate Change 2001: the scientific basis; contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Port Chester, NY: Cambridge University Press.

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  9. Loehle C. and D. LeBlanc 1996.  Model-based assessments of climate change effects on forests: a critical review. Ecological Modelling 90:1-31.

  10. Midgley GF, Hannah L, Millar D, et al. 2002. Assessing the vulnerability of species richness to anthropogenic climate change in a biodiversity hotspot. Global Ecol Biogeogr 11: 445–51.

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  14. Schwartz, M.W., L.R. Iverson, and A.M. Prasad. 2001. Predicting the potential future distribution of four species in Ohio using current habitat availability and climatic forcing. Ecosystems 4: 568-581.

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  18. Walther et al. 2002. Ecological responses to recent climate change. Nature 416: 389-395.

  19. Walther G.R. 2004. Plants in a warmer world. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics 6: 169-185.

  20. Williams P, Hannah L, Andelman S, et al. 2005. Planning for climate change: identifying minimum-dispersal corridors for the Cape Proteaceae. Conserv Biol 19: 1063–74.

  21. Williams PH, Burgess N, and Rahbek C. 2000. Flagship species, ecological complementarity and conserving the diversity of mammals and birds in sub-Saharan Africa. Anim Conserv 3: 249–60

  22. Williams and Jackson 2007

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