Journal article
Climate change vulnerability assessment of species
WB Foden, BE Young, HR Akçakaya, RA Garcia, AA Hoffmann, BA Stein, CD Thomas, CJ Wheatley, D Bickford, JA Carr, DG Hole, TG Martin, M Pacifici, JW Pearce-Higgins, PJ Platts, P Visconti, JEM Watson, B Huntley
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change | WILEY | Published : 2019
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.551
Abstract
Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change is a prerequisite for developing effective strategies to conserve them. The last three decades have seen exponential growth in the number of studies evaluating how, how much, why, when, and where species will be impacted by climate change. We provide an overview of the rapidly developing field of climate change vulnerability assessment (CCVA) and describe key concepts, terms, steps and considerations. We stress the importance of identifying the full range of pressures, impacts and their associated mechanisms that species face and using this as a basis for selecting the appropriate assessment approaches for quantifying vulnerability. We outli..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was carried out through the Climate Change Specialist Group of the IUCN's Species Survival Commission. It was supported by the Yorkshire Wildlife Park Foundation, the Environment Agency of Dubai, the IUCN Species Survival Commission, the Norwegian Polar Institute, Global Environment Facility, Chevron Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Centre for Invasion Biology and the Claude Leon Foundation. We thank David Wright and Justin de Beer for their assistance with figures. WBF thanks Guy Midgley and Bob Scholes for invaluable discussions and support during the preparation of this review. We also offer thanks to Cheryl and Neville Williams, Kit Kovacs, Jon Paul Rodriguez and Simon Stuart for their roles in providing this support. We acknowledge the following people who contributed to the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Guidelines for Assessing Species' Vulnerability to Climate Change, from which inspiration for this review drew: Stuart Butchart, Richard Corlett, John Gross, Kit Kovacs, Robert Lacy, Guy Midgley, Paul Pearce-Kelly, Richard Pearson, April Reside, Carlo Rondinini, Brett Scheffers, Adam Smith, Mark Stanley-Price, Stephen Williams and Stephen Willis.