An important conservation strategy for climate change is to enhance and maintain regional habitat connectivity for the long-term viability of wildlife populations. Modeling habitat connectivity for wildlife species often results in a mapped network of linkages between habitat patches.
Webinar: Connectivity for Climate Change: Assessing Threats and Identifying Conservation Actions Active
By Climate Adaptation Science Centers
September 20, 2018
View this webinar to learn how researchers are examining habitat connectivity as a conservation strategy in the face of climate change.
Date Recorded
Thursday, September 20, 2018
3:00 PM EST
Summary
An important conservation strategy for climate change is to enhance and maintain regional habitat connectivity for the long-term viability of wildlife populations. Modeling habitat connectivity for wildlife species often results in a mapped network of linkages between habitat patches. A critical next step is to determine which of those linkages are priorities for conservation under climate change, and which conservation actions should be taken on those linkages. This webinar presents a framework for identifying priority conservation actions for linkages based on information on their degree of climate change threat, their importance to the overall habitat network, and projected threats from other stressors. This framework was applied to the connectivity networks of three species in the Southeastern U.S.: Rafinesque’s big-eared bat, black bear, and timber rattlesnake. Important differences among the species in the threats they face are highlighted, as are key regions within the Southeast where there is a common priority strategy across the three species for conserving connectivity.
Research support from: Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
Resources
Transcript - Costanza 9.20.2018
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Habitat Connectivity: Assessing Threats and IDing Conservation Actions
An important conservation strategy for climate change is to enhance and maintain regional habitat connectivity for the long-term viability of wildlife populations. Modeling habitat connectivity for wildlife species often results in a mapped network of linkages between habitat patches.
- Overview
View this webinar to learn how researchers are examining habitat connectivity as a conservation strategy in the face of climate change.
Date Recorded
Thursday, September 20, 2018
3:00 PM ESTSummary
An important conservation strategy for climate change is to enhance and maintain regional habitat connectivity for the long-term viability of wildlife populations. Modeling habitat connectivity for wildlife species often results in a mapped network of linkages between habitat patches. A critical next step is to determine which of those linkages are priorities for conservation under climate change, and which conservation actions should be taken on those linkages. This webinar presents a framework for identifying priority conservation actions for linkages based on information on their degree of climate change threat, their importance to the overall habitat network, and projected threats from other stressors. This framework was applied to the connectivity networks of three species in the Southeastern U.S.: Rafinesque’s big-eared bat, black bear, and timber rattlesnake. Important differences among the species in the threats they face are highlighted, as are key regions within the Southeast where there is a common priority strategy across the three species for conserving connectivity.
Research support from: Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
Resources
Transcript - Costanza 9.20.2018
Learn more about this project here
- Multimedia
Below are multimedia items associated with this project.
Habitat Connectivity: Assessing Threats and IDing Conservation ActionsAn important conservation strategy for climate change is to enhance and maintain regional habitat connectivity for the long-term viability of wildlife populations. Modeling habitat connectivity for wildlife species often results in a mapped network of linkages between habitat patches.
An important conservation strategy for climate change is to enhance and maintain regional habitat connectivity for the long-term viability of wildlife populations. Modeling habitat connectivity for wildlife species often results in a mapped network of linkages between habitat patches.