Angelo Coast Range Reserve

17 May, 08 AM - 30 Jun, 02 AM

Given the limited resources available for the management of global change, tradeoffs are implicit in Conservation Biology. We will need to balance what we can know about the future against what we can do about it, yet the preponderance of indirect effects in ecological responses to climate change?impacts arising not immediately from climate, but from other species? responses to climate and the reshuffling of interactions that follows?makes this balance difficult to gauge. Indirect effects lead both to unforeseen responses to climate change and to unforeseen outcomes of management. My research will explore dynamics of indirect effects in new detail, looking to penetrate their complexity far enough that questions of prevention versus cure can be weighed. In looking to manage against harmful consequences of climate change, is it more plausible to preempt the emergence of indirect effects or to unwind their effects once they manifest? This study asks empirically whether indirect effects can be preempted and whether they can be reversed, and thus judges the relative merits of restoration versus prevention in contending with this aspect of climate change.

Visit #24977 @Angelo Coast Range Reserve

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Under Project # 23643 | Research

Complexity in ecological impacts of climate change ? tests on inevitability and reversibility.

graduate_student - Imperial Valley College

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Sarah Dryhurst May 17 - Jun 30, 2011 (45 days)
Sarah Dryhurst May 17 - Jun 30, 2011 (45 days)

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Fox Creek Lodge 2 May 17 - Jun 30, 2011
Lab 2 May 17 - Jun 30, 2011
Wilderness Lodge 2 May 17 - Jun 30, 2011