Natural resource managers worldwide face a growing challenge: Intensifying global change
increasingly propels ecosystems toward irreversible ecological transformations. This …

The stressors of global environmental change make it impossible over the long term for
natural systems to maintain their historical composition. Conservation's new objective must …

Over the past three decades, climate change adaptation has become a central focus in
conservation. To inform these efforts, the scientific community has provided a growing body …

Worldwide, many species are responding to ongoing climate change with shifts in
distribution, abundance, phenology, or behavior. Consequently, natural‐resource managers …

Ecosystem transformation can be defined as the emergence of a self‐organizing, self‐
sustaining, ecological or social–ecological system that deviates from prior ecosystem …

Despite striking global change, management to ensure healthy landscapes and sustained
natural resources has tended to set objectives on the basis of the historical range of …

US national parks are challenged by climate and other forms of broad-scale environmental
change that operate beyond administrative boundaries and in some instances are occurring …

Nature reserves are not isolated. They exist in the context of broader landscape mosaics,
and the landscape surroundings of a reserve may contain a threat to the biodiversity within …

This comprehensive, introductory text takes an applied, interdisciplinary approach. Because
one author is a sociologist and the other a demographer, the text introduces perspectives …

Global climate change represents one of the most extensive and pervasive threats to wildlife
populations. Amphibians, specifically salamanders, are particularly susceptible to the effects …