Climate change and Canada's national park system
Subtitle: a screening level assessment = Le changement climatique et le réseau des parcs nationaux du Canada : une évaluation préliminaire
By: [edited by Daniel Scott and Roger Suffling].
Contributors: Scott, Daniel.; Suffling, Roger, 1948-; Parks Canada.; University of Waterloo. Faculty of Environmental Studies.; Canada. Environment Canada. Adaptation & Impacts Research Group.
Publisher: Parks Canada
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Ottawa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Climatic changes -- Canada; Natural resources -- Canada -- Management; Environmental impact analysis -- Canada; National parks and reserves -- Canada -- Management; Climat -- Changements -- Canada; Ressources naturelles -- Canada -- Gestion; Environnement -- Études d'impact -- Canada; Parcs nationaux -- Canada -- Gestion
Other titles: Changement climatique et le réseau des parcs nationaux du Canada
Description: This report uses climate change models to form a screening level assessment of the impacts of climate change in Canada's national parks and reserves. Seasonal climate change scenarios based on four doubled-carbon-dioxide general circulation model experiments, were assembled for each national park, and implications for abiotic features, ecosystems, individual species, and visitor use of each park were then examined using national park resource inventories and existing climatological & climate change studies. The report begins with an introduction on climate change studies, an overview of the methods used to construct the climate change scenarios, and a summary of how the climate at the parks is projected to change over the next century. This is followed by climate change impact reports for each park, arranged by region. Based on this analysis, the final section discusses management & policy implications and future research needs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Prepared ... by the Adaptation & Impacts Research Group, Environment Canada and the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo".
Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program.
Text in English only; includes abstract and summary in French.
Also available in CD-ROM format.