Agency plans are inadequate to conserve US endangered species under climate change

Delach, Aimee; Caldas, Astrid; Edson, Kiel; Krehbiel, Robb; Murray, Sarah; Theoharides, Kathleen A.; Vorhees, Lauren; Malcom, Jacob; Salvo, Mark; Miller, Jennifer R. B.

doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0620-8

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“…Different species have different responses to climate change. The habitat of some species will be threatened by climate warming, which will make them endangered [44][45][46]. On the contrary, because climate change is conducive to the improvement of some species' habitats, their habitats will expand.…”

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Predicting the Potential Distribution of the Endangered Plant <i>Magnolia wilsonii</i> Using MaxEnt under Climate Change in China

Yang¹,

Xue²,

Chen³

et al. 2022

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Changes in future climate will have a great impact on biodiversity. Magnolia wilsonii, an endangered tree native to China, has important scientific and medicinal value occurring in western Sichuan, northern Yunnan and western Guizhou. And it has severely declined and become critically endangered in the last years due to habitat loss and fragmentation. In this study, we modeled the current and future distributions of M. wilsonii under three representative concentration pathways (SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5). The results showed that the AUC values of all simulations were greater than 0.940. The key environmental variables affecting the potential distribution of M. wilsonii were the annual precipitation (573-1671 mm), the min temperature of coldest month (10.1ºC-16.2ºC), the coefficient of variation in precipitation seasonality (11.5-160.9), and the standard deviation of temperature seasonality (404.7-1765.6). The area of the highly suitable habitat was 29.66×10 4 km², mainly concentrated in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi. Yunnan had the largest suitable habitat, occupying 13.23×10 4 km², accounting for 44.6% of the highly suitable area. Under the three climate change scenarios, the areas of the suitable habitat of M. wilsonii showed increasing trends, the geometric center of the highly suitable habitat would move to the northeast. Our results can provide a scientific basis for the protection, cultivation, management and sustainable use of M. wilsonii.

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Section: Potential Habitat For M Wilsonii Under Climate Change Scenariosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Predicting the Potential Distribution of the Endangered Plant <i>Magnolia wilsonii</i> Using MaxEnt under Climate Change in China

Yang¹,

Xue²,

Chen³

et al. 2022

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…However, there are gaps between managers' understanding of the importance of climate change, the use of climate information in planning efforts, and implementation of adaptation actions (Cross et al, 2013;Dilling et al, 2019;Donatti et al, 2019;Peterson St-Laurent et al, 2021). Although natural resource managers increasingly recognize the importance of using climate change information to inform conservation, this information is currently underutilized (Archie et al, 2014;Delach et al, 2019;Ellenwood et al, 2012;Lemieux et al, 2013). To close these gaps, there is a need for better guidance on how to use climate change to inform conservation planning (c.f., Archie et al, 2014;Yocum & Ray, 2019).…”

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“…A review of 185 Comprehensive Conservation Plans for the US National Wildlife Refuge System found that plans varied in the extent to which they addressed climate change but also identified excellent examples within the plans that, if compiled and shared across planning entities, could improve planning efforts (Meretsky & Fischman, 2014). However, reviews of other conservation planning documents have found disconnects between managers' understanding of climate changerelated risks to conservation and the inclusion of potential adaptation strategies or actions in plans (Fontaine, 2011;Delach et al, 2019;Hoeppner & Hughes, 2019). These gaps may result in conservation efforts that fall short of conservation goals (c.f., Delach et al, 2019).…”

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“…However, reviews of other conservation planning documents have found disconnects between managers' understanding of climate changerelated risks to conservation and the inclusion of potential adaptation strategies or actions in plans (Fontaine, 2011;Delach et al, 2019;Hoeppner & Hughes, 2019). These gaps may result in conservation efforts that fall short of conservation goals (c.f., Delach et al, 2019).…”

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Assessing the use of climate change information in State Wildlife Action Plans

Yocum

Sassorossi

Ray

2022

Conservat Sci and Prac

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Assessing how climate change information is used in conservation planning is an important part of meeting long-term conservation and climate adaptation goals.In the United States, state agencies responsible for fish and wildlife management create State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs) to identify conservation goals, prioritize actions, and establish plans for managing and monitoring target species and habitats. We created a rubric to assess and compare the use of climate change information in SWAPs for 10 states in the Intermountain West and Great Plains.Interviews with SWAP authors identified institutional factors influencing applications of climate change information. Access to professional networks and climate scientists, funding support for climate change vulnerability analysis, Congressional mandates to include climate change, and supportive agency leadership facilitate using climate change information. Political climate could either support or limit options for using this information. Together, the rubric and the interview results can be used to identify opportunities to improve the use of climate information, and to identify entry points to support conservation planning and natural resource managers in successful adaptation to climate change. This research is directly relevant to future SWAP revisions, which most states will complete by 2025, and more broadly to other conservation planning processes.

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“…Although there is a growing focus on climate adaptation, and both frameworks and theory have been proposed in recent years (e.g., Hobday et al, 2015; Prober et al, 2019), implementation of on‐the‐ground adaptation is lagging. This discrepancy is also demonstrated by a mismatch between identified risk and on‐ground action for government recovery plans of threatened species (Delach et al, 2019; Hoeppner & Hughes, 2019). Adaptation is inherently difficult to track and evaluate in many contexts (Berrang‐Ford et al, 2019; Dilling et al, 2019).…”

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Climate adaptation interventions for iconic fauna

Mason

Hobday

Alderman³

et al. 2021

Conservat Sci and Prac

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Climate adaptation is an emerging practice in biodiversity conservation, but little is known about the scope, scale, and effectiveness of implemented actions. Here, we review and synthesize published reports of climate adaptation interventions for iconic fauna. We present a systematic map of peerreviewed literature databases (Web of Science and Scopus); however, only nine climate adaptation actions targeting iconic fauna were returned. In the grey and informal literature, there were many instances of practical intervention within our scope, that were not uncovered during traditional systematic search methods. The richness of actions reported in commercial news, government and non-government organization media outlets and other online sources vastly outweighs the limited studies that have been robustly evaluated and reported in the scientific literature. From our investigation of this emerging field of conservation practice, we draw insights and pen a series of recommendations for the field moving forward. Key recommendations for future adaptation interventions include: the sharing and publishing of climate-related conservation interventions, the use of standardized metrics for reporting outcomes, the implementation of experimental controls for any actions undertaken, and reporting and evaluation of both failures and successes.

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Agency plans are inadequate to conserve US endangered species under climate change

Cited by 22 publications

References 25 publications

Predicting the Potential Distribution of the Endangered Plant <i>Magnolia wilsonii</i> Using MaxEnt under Climate Change in China

Predicting the Potential Distribution of the Endangered Plant <i>Magnolia wilsonii</i> Using MaxEnt under Climate Change in China

Assessing the use of climate change information in State Wildlife Action Plans

Climate adaptation interventions for iconic fauna

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