Summary:
Published in Diversity 2: 1181-1204
Anticipating the effects of climate change on biodiversity is now critical for managing wild species and ecosystems. Climate change is a global driver and thus affects biodiversity globally. However, land-use planners and natural resource managers need regional or even local predictions. This provides scientists with formidable challenges given the poor documentation of biodiversity and its complex relationships with climate. We are approaching this problem in Quebec, Canada, through the CC-Bio Project (http://cc-bio.uqar.ca/), using a boundary organization as a catalyst for team work involving climate modelers, biologists, naturalists, and biodiversity managers. In this paper we present the CC-Bio Project and its general approach, some preliminary results, the emerging hypothesis of the northern biodiversity paradox (a potential increase of biodiversity in northern ecosystems due to climate change), and an early assessment of the conservation implications generated by our team work.
Sector(s):
Forests
Catégorie(s):
Scientific Article
Theme(s):
Ecosystems and Environment, Forest Ecology, Forestry Research, Forests
Departmental author(s):
Author(s):
BERTEAUX, Dominique, S. DE BLOIS, J.-F. ANGERS, J. BONIN, N. CASAJUS, M. DARVEAU, F. FOURNIER, M. M. HUMPHRIES, B. MCGILL, J. LARIVÉE, T. LOGAN, P. NANTEL, C. PÉRIÉ, F. POISSON, D. RODRIGUE, S. ROULEAU, R. SIRON, W. THUILLER and L. VESCOVI
Year of publication:
2010
How to get the publication:
ISSN:
1424-2818
Keyword(s):
biodiversité, changement climatique, répartition des espèces, modèle de niche, écologie écosystèmes et environnement, article scientifique de recherche forestière, écosystèmes et environnement, biodiversity, climate change, species distribution, ecological niche models, ecosystems and environment