Title: Climate change, biodiversity and sustainability in the Americas : impacts and adaptations /
Authors: Dallmeier, Francisco
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity America.; Climatic changes America.; Climatic changes America.
Abstract: This book compiles the latest research on the effects of climate change on biodiversity in the Americas and the sustainability efforts being made to preserve the ecological integrity of these regions. Scientists working in Canada, Puerto Rico, Argentina, the USA, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica contribute their findings in such varied areas as avian populations, the impacts of climate extremes on biodiversity, carbon storage in tree plantations, and the relationship between precipitation and vegetation. The changing climate and human activity are affecting ecosystems throughout the Americas. Governments, NGOs, industries, and communities need to learn about these changes in order to adapt their planning, infrastructure, and operations to mitigate the loss of biodiversity.
Contents: Avian response to climate change in British Columbia, Canada -- toward a general model / Fred L. Bunnell, Michael I. Preston, Anthea C.M. Farr -- Population trends of Montane birds in southwestern Puerto Rico: eight years after the passage of Hurricane Georges -- Regional bird monitoring as a tool for predicting the effects of land use and climate change on Pampas biodiversity / Maria Elena Zaccagnini, Sonia Canavelli, Noelia Calamari, Anne M. Schrag -- Impacts of climate extremes on biodiversity in the America / Marianne B. Karsh, Don MacIver -- Phenological changes of Mammillaria mathildae associated to climatic change in a deciduous tropical forest / Oscar Garcia-Rubio, Guadalupe Malda-Barrera -- Tropical tree plantations with native species: linking carbon storage with concerns for biodiversity / Marlena Sarlo, Chrystal Healy, Catherine Potvin -- Biomass and carbon accumulation in secondary forests and forest plantations used as restoration tools in the Caribbean Region of Costa Rica / William Fonseca [and others] -- Climate change and snow depth impacts on vegetation at the Great Basin Desert -- Sierra Nevada Ecotone / Michael E. Loik, Holly Alpert, Alden B. Griffith.