Using microclimate to adapt conservation to climate change

利用小气候使保护适应气候变化

基本信息

批准号：
NE/L00268X/1
负责人：
Robert Wilson
金额：
$ 11.62万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FL00268X%2F1
关键词：
Using microclimate adapt conservation climate

项目摘要

Biodiversity represents the life support system on which society depends, but is increasingly threatened by human activities. As a result, there is an urgent need for tested methods to help biodiversity to adapt to emerging threats such as climate change. One possible first step is to protect existing populations of threatened species by making use of the microclimates that are created by different features of the landscape, and that can buffer the effects of climate change. Conservation organisations already carry out activities that influence microclimate, for example by grazing livestock to create hot conditions for plants or invertebrates in short or broken vegetation. Such approaches are based on experience of management actions that have been successful for threatened species until now, but relatively little explicit information is available to guide these management activities under future climate change. We aim to provide practical guidance to help decide what activities should be carried out, where, and for which species, to increase the resilience of biodiversity to climate changeWe will use techniques developed during recent NERC-funded research, to predict variation in temperature and moisture conditions at a fine resolution throughout the landscape of South West England. We will provide our project partners, the environmental organisations that are charged with conserving biodiversity in the region, with information on how this microclimate variation influences priority species for conservation. We will work closely with these organisations to ensure that the format and content of the resources we develop are practically useful. To achieve this goal, we will liaise closely with the organisations about their conservation priorities in the region, develop a set of microclimate databases to access via Geographic Information Systems, and provide guidance and support to the partners on the application of this resource to conservation planning and management. We will apply the microclimate resources we develop to locations in South-West England in which our partners are guiding conservation management using innovative landscape-scale approaches, which require coordinated management across a range of habitats and land-uses. These landscape-scale projects will provide an opportunity to apply the microclimate information to existing questions of where and how to focus management activities to help protect species against potentially negative effects of climate change. Based on our experience of applying these techniques to conservation management in the landscape-scale projects, we will work with our partners to produce a broader guidance document to assist with planning, prioritisation and management to adapt UK biodiversity conservation to climate change. Our direct beneficiaries are bodies whose primary goal is nature conservation, but we will develop tools and guidance in a format that enables their wider future application by organisations involved with environmental policy, planning and management in the UK.

生物多样性代表了社会依赖的生命支持系统，但受到人类活动的威胁越来越多。结果，迫切需要经过测试的方法来帮助生物多样性适应诸如气候变化之类的新兴威胁。第一步是通过利用由景观的不同特征创建的微气候来保护现有的威胁物种种群，并可以缓解气候变化的影响。保护组织已经开展了影响小气候的活动，例如，饲养牲畜在短或破裂的植被中为植物或无脊椎动物创造炎热条件。这种方法基于到目前为止受到威胁物种成功的管理措施的经验，但是在未来气候变化下，相对较少的明确信息可以指导这些管理活动。我们旨在提供实用的指导，以帮助确定应进行哪些活动，以提高生物多样性对气候变化的弹性，我们将使用在最近的NERC资助研究期间开发的技术，以预测西南英格兰地区整个景观的良好分辨率的温度和水分条件的变化。我们将为我们的项目合作伙伴提供负责保护该地区生物多样性的环境组织，并提供有关这种微气候变化如何影响优先物种进行保护的信息。我们将与这些组织紧密合作，以确保我们开发的资源的格式和内容实际上有用。为了实现这一目标，我们将与组织紧密联系有关其在该地区的保护优先事项，开发一组微气候数据库，以通过地理信息系统访问，并向合作伙伴提供有关将此资源应用于保护计划和管理的指导和支持。我们将使用我们开发的微气候资源应用于英格兰西南部的地点，我们的合作伙伴正在使用创新的景观规模的方法指导保护管理，这些方法需要在一系列栖息地和土地上进行协调管理。这些景观规模的项目将提供一个机会，将微气候信息应用于现有的问题以及如何关注管理活动的现有问题，以帮助保护物种免受气候变化的潜在负面影响。根据我们将这些技术应用于景观规模项目中的保护管理的经验，我们将与合作伙伴合作制作更广泛的指导文件，以协助计划，优先级和管理，以适应英国生物多样性保护以适应气候变化。我们的直接受益人是其主要目标是自然保护的机构，但我们将以一种形式开发工具和指导，以使其未来与环境政策，规划和管理有关的组织更广泛地应用。