Climate Change Collection: Ecological

Published: January 28, 2010, 3:52 pm

Updated: May 7, 2012, 11:42 am

Topics:

Climate Change (main)

Observed changes and responses in natural and managed systems

1. Methods of detection impacts of climate change
2. Observed, climate-related changes

Ecosystem services

1. Overview
2. Forest carbon sinks
3. Water quality
4. Climate change and timber production
5. Climate change and non-timber forest products
6. Eco-tourism
7. Soil production and quality

Freshwater

1. Overview
2. Key impacts and vulnerabilities
3. Surface waters
4. Groundwater
5. Saltwater intrusion
6. Drought and flooding
7. Water quality
8. Erosion and sediment transport
9. Costs and other socio-economic aspects

Ecosystems

1. Deserts
2. Grasslands and savannas
3. Mediterranean ecosystems
4. Forests and woodlands
5. Tundra and Arctic/Antarctic ecosystems
   1. Overview (Climate Change Collection: Ecological)
   2. Regional processes and feedbacks
   3. Species adaptation
   4. Genetic responses in species
   5. Arctic bird species
   6. Forest distribution
   7. Insects as a forest disturbance
   8. Tree growth
   9. Caribou
   10. Wildlife

Geographic overview

1. Critical issues
2. Alaskan Arctic
3. Arctic (Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Arctic)
4. Canadian north
5. Fennoscandian north
6. Russian Arctic and sub-Arctic
7. Marine mammals and seabirds
8. Threats to coral reefs

Biodiversity

1. Birds
2. Insects
3. Fish
4. Mammals
5. Reptiles
6. Amphibians
7. Grasses
8. Coral reefs
9. Trees
10. Flowering plants
11. Invasive species

Fisheries

1. Importance of fisheries
2. Current vulnerability
3. Adaptive capacity
4. Primary effects
5. Aquaculture

Agriculture

1. Importance of agriculture
2. Current vulnerability
3. Adaptive capacity
4. Primary effects
5. Monocropping
6. Pastures and livestock
7. Industrial crops and biofuels
8. Subsistence farming communities

Forestry

1. Importance of forestry
2. Current vulnerability
3. Deforestation
4. Adaptive capacity
5. Primary effects

Coastal systems and low-lying areas

1. Natural coastal ecosystems
2. Human utilization of the coastal zone
3. Effects of climate change on human utilization of the coastalzone

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Citation

Surface, M. (2012). Climate Change Collection: Ecological. Retrieved from http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Climate_Change_Collection:_Ecological