Climate-Smart Design for Ecosystem Management: A Test Application for Coral Reefs.

ABSTRACT: The interactive and cumulative impacts of climate change on natural resources such as coral reefs present numerous challenges for conservation planning and management. Climate change adaptation is complex due to climate-stressor interactions across multiple spatial and temporal scales. This leaves decision makers worldwide faced with local, regional, and global-scale threats to ecosystem processes and services, occurring over time frames that require both near-term and long-term planning. Thus there is a need for structured approaches to adaptation planning that integrate existing methods for vulnerability assessment with design and evaluation of effective adaptation responses. The Corals and Climate Adaptation Planning project of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force seeks to develop guidance fo

SUBMITTER: West JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5219003 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature