Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Australian Birds [OP]

by Stephen T. Garnett (Editor), Donald C. Franklin (Editor)

Overview

This is the first climate change adaptation plan produced for a national faunal group anywhere in the world. It outlines the nature of threats related to climate change for the Australian bird taxa most likely to be affected by climate change, and provides recommendations on what might be done to assist them and an approximate cost of doing so. It also features an analysis of how climate change will affect all Australian birds, explains why some species are likely to be more exposed or sensitive to it than others, and explores the theory and practice of conservation management under the realities of a changing climate.

Species profiles include maps showing current core habitat and modelled climatic suitability based on historical records, as well as maps showing projected climatic suitability in 2085 in relation to current core habitat.

Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Australian Birds is an important reference for policy makers, conservation scientists, land managers, climate change adaptation biologists, as well as bird watchers and advocacy groups.


KEY FEATURES:
-The first climate change adaptation plan produced for a national faunal group anywhere in the world
- A list of climate change sensitive taxa justified by transparent metrics
- Outlines the nature of threats related to climate change for the Australian bird taxa most likely to be affected by climate change
- Maps showing current core habitat and modeled climatic suitability based on historical records, as well as maps showing projected climatic suitability in 2085 in relation to current core habitat

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780643108028
Publisher:	CSIRO Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 11.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Stephen T. Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods at Charles Darwin University, drafted the first review of Australia's threatened bird species in 1990. He wrote the first Action Plan for Australian Birds in 1992, the second Action Plan in 2000, in association with Gabriel Crowley, and the third, in 2010, with Judit Szabo and Guy Dutson. He and Dr. Gabriel Crowley were jointly awarded the Serventy Medal in 2008. He has studied and written about many threatened Australian bird species, most notably the Golden-shouldered Parrot and the Kangaroo Island Glossy Black-Cockatoo. He helped bring the idea of Important Bird Areas to Australia, and is a Fellow of BirdLife Australia where he serves on the Research and Conservation Committee and has coordinated the Threatened Species Committee since 2003. He is also a Conference-Appointed Scientific Councillor for birds with the Convention on Migratory Species, established the International Union for Biological Sciences working group on taxonomic lists and undertakes research on Indigenous natural-resource based livelihoods, renewable energy and human migration.

Donald C. Franklin is an ornithologist, plant ecologist and biogeographer who has conducted research in both northern and southern Australia. He has worked with threatened birds and studied the relationship between climate, plants and vegetation. He works from his north Queensland home part time for Charles Darwin University and part time privately.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of contributors

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The exposure of Australian birds to climate change
Chapter 3: The sensitivity of Australian birds to climate change
Chapter 4: The vulnerability of Australian birds to climate change
Chapter 5: Conserving Australian bird populations in the face of climate change
Chapter 6: Adaptation outlines for species that are both highly sensitive and highly exposed

Appendix 1. Australian bird taxa that are considered highly or very highly exposed or sensitive to climate change, or both
Index