Michael Dunlop

TL;DR: It is argued that achieving increased adaptation action will necessitate integration of climate change-related issues with other risk factors, such as climate variability and market risk, and with other policy domains,such as sustainable development.

TL;DR: A set of hypotheses are presented which, when considered together, make a probabilistic prediction of the dispersal mode adopted by a plant species and can be used to generate a prediction of its dispersal spectrum.

TL;DR: By using the vrk model to diagnose constraints in decision processes, it is shown how the reframing of adaptation initiatives can reveal new approaches to developing adaptation responses to complex global change problems.

TL;DR: The TARA approach represents a means for achieving changes in institutions and governance needed to support transformative adaptation and provides a future-oriented approach to evaluation and use of ecosystem services, a dynamic, grounded understanding of governance and decision-making and a logical, sequential approach that connects decisions over time.

TL;DR: Comparative analyses enabled by the operational framework suggest that adaptation services that emerge during trajectories of ecological change are supported by common mechanisms: vegetation structural diversity, the role of keystone species or functional groups, response diversity and landscape connectivity, which underpin the persistence of function and the reassembly of ecological communities under severe climate change and variability.