Climate change and biodiversity conservation: impacts, adaptation strategies and future research directions

F1000 Biol Rep. 2009 Feb 24:1:16. doi: 10.3410/B1-16.

Abstract

The impacts of climate change pose fundamental challenges for current approaches to biodiversity conservation. Changing temperature and precipitation regimes will interact with existing drivers such as habitat loss to influence species distributions despite their protection within reserve boundaries. In this report we summarize a suite of current adaptation proposals for conservation, and highlight some key issues to be resolved.