The need for stewardship of lands exposed by deglaciation from climate change

A Zimmer, T Beach, JA Klein… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Alpine glaciers worldwide will lose most of their volume by the end of the 21st century,
placing alpine ecosystems and human populations at risk. The new lands that emerge from …

Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers

FA Yannelli, M Bazzichetto, T Conradi… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the aim to identify future challenges and opportunities in vegetation science, we
brought together a group of 22 early career vegetation scientists from diverse backgrounds …

Responding to ecological transformation: mental models, external constraints, and manager decision-making

KR Clifford, AE Cravens, CN Knapp - BioScience, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Ecological transformation creates many challenges for public natural resource management
and requires managers to grapple with new relationships to change and new ways to …

Management foundations for navigating ecological transformation by resisting, accepting, or directing social–ecological change

DR Magness, L Hoang, RT Belote, J Brennan… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Climate Vulnerability Assessment of the Espeletia Complex on Páramo Sky Islands in the Northern Andes

JB Valencia, J Mesa, JG León, S Madriñán… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Some of the largest impacts of climate change are expected in the environmentally
heterogeneous and species rich high mountain ecosystems. Among those, the Neotropical …

Trophically integrated ecometric models as tools for demonstrating spatial and temporal functional changes in mammal communities

RA Short, JL McGuire, PD Polly… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We are in a modern biodiversity crisis that will restructure community compositions and
ecological functions globally. Large mammals, important contributors to ecosystem function …

[PDF][PDF] Flancos Andinos: Paleoecología, biogeografía crítica y ecología política en los climas cambiantes de los bosques neotropicales de montaña

FO Sarmiento, EV Sarmiento - Editorial INDES_CES/UNTRM …, 2021 - academia.edu
Para mí es un gran honor, inesperado, que los autores me hayan pedido un breve prefacio
para el presente volumen. De hecho, fue tan inesperado que me sentí tentado a …

Management implications of shifting baselines in fish stock assessments

R Schijns, D Pauly - Fisheries Management and Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To make sound decisions about the future of fisheries, managers need to have a good
understanding of the amount of fish that have been caught over long periods. Unfortunately …

A compendium of vivipary in the Cactaceae: new reports, data, and research prospects

JH Cota-Sánchez - Brazilian Journal of Botany, 2022 - Springer
This review examines the historical research progress and areas of vivipary currently
investigated in the Cactaceae. Vivipary, a rare attribute, has evolved multiple times in …

[HTML][HTML] Valuing the Quaternary–Nature conservation and geoheritage

JE Gordon, EJ Brown, DR Bridgland… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper introduces the Special Issue of the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association on
'Valuing the Quaternary–Nature Conservation and Geoheritage', arising from the …