Bring climate change back from the future
Watson, J.E.M (2016). Bring climate change back from the future. Nature, 534: 437. The ‘shock’ over an Australian extinction shows that we still don’t accept that global warming is a problem for now, says James Watson. Read it online here
Balancing Ecosystem and Threatened Species Representation in Protected Areas and Implications for Na
Polak, T., Watson, J.E.M., Bennett, J.R., Possingham, H.P., Fuller, R.A. and J. Carwardine (2016). Balancing Ecosystem and Threatened Species Representation in Protected Areas and Implications for Nations Achieving Global Conservation Goals. Conservation Letters. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12268 Balancing the representation of ecosystems and threatened species habitats is critical for optimizing protected area (PA) networks and achieving the Convention on Biological Diversity strategi
How can we save species from climate change?
Human forced climate change is affecting biodiversity in many ways, including changes in species ranges, mass coral bleaching events, and changes in timing of biological events (e.g. breeding or fruiting seasons). Additionally, human responses to climate change are also threatening biodiversity, through agricultural expansion, construction of seawalls and changes in fishing areas. These affects are likely to worsen in the future, with climate change likely to become the main
Incorporating climate change into spatial conservation prioritisation: A review
Jones, K., Watson, J.E.M, Possingham, H.P. and C.J. Klein (2016). Incorporating climate change into spatial conservation prioritization: A Review. Biological Conservation, 194: 121- 130. To ensure the long-term persistence of biodiversity, conservation strategies must account for the entire range of cli- mate change impacts. A variety of spatial prioritisation techniques have been developed to incorporate climate change. Here, we provide the first standardised review of these