Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being
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Frequently Asked Questions (16)
Q2. What are the contributions in "Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being" ?
Pecl et al. this paper showed that the current global goals, policies, and international agreements do not sufficiently consider species range shifts in their formulation or targets.
Q3. What are the benefits of collaborative initiatives with indigenous communities?
Indigenous communities can provide traditional ecological knowledge that complements remote sensing and field data and provides historical context (56), and new management arrangements may incentivize conservation activities.
Q4. What is the role of the scientific community in achieving the SDGs?
For the scientific community to help develop mitigation and adaptation strategies in the face of widespread change in species distribution and ecosystem functioning, a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying such changes is needed.
Q5. What is the way to reduce the negative consequences of species movements?
Enhanced awareness, supported by appropriate governance, will provide the best chance of minimizing negative consequences while maximizing opportunities arising from species movements—movements that, with or without effective emission reduction, will continue for the foreseeable future, owing to the inertia in the climate system.
Q6. What is the prevalent mosquito-borne disease in the world?
the most prevalent mosquito-borne disease, has long been a risk for almost half of the world’s population,withmore than 200million cases recorded in 2014 (59).
Q7. What is the effect of climate change on human well-being?
The redistributions of species are expected to affect the availability and distribution of goods and services for human well-being in a number of ways, and the relative immobility of many human societies, largely imposed by jurisdictional borders, has limited capacity to respond to environmental change by migration.
Q8. What is the main obstacle to understanding climate change implications for natural systems?
The current absence of a global, comprehensive, coordinated biodiversity monitoring system is a major obstacle to their understanding of climate change implications for natural systems.
Q9. What is the effect of the mackerel wars?
The mackerel fishery in Iceland increased from 1700 metric tons in 2006 to 120,000metric tons in 2010, resulting in “mackerel wars” between Iceland and competing countries that have traditionally been allocatedmackerel quotas (63).
Q10. What is the importance of a dynamic governance approach?
This uncertainty necessitates flexible and dynamic governance so adaptation to changing conditions can be rapid, maximizing opportunities and minimizing negative consequences.
Q11. What is the net effect of DMS on climate warming?
These particles are expected to decrease surface temperature, but theymay also act as a greenhouse gas, so the net effect on climate warming is not yet clear.
Q12. What is the way to track the redistribution of species?
o nA pril 18, 2 01 7 ht tp :// sc ie nc e. sc ie nc em ag .o rg /D ownl oade dfr omability of people and communities to track these pervasive species redistributions and adapt to them is increasingly constrained by geopolitical boundaries, institutional rigidities, and inertias at all temporal and spatial scales.
Q13. What is the role of communication in preventing in-vesting?
communication among relevant agencies throughout the new and former ranges of shifting species is essential to avoid in-vesting in protecting species in locations where they are no longer viable and yet failing to manage them appropriately in their new ranges.
Q14. What is the net effect of the warming of the ocean?
These changes are expected to lead, respectively, to northwardmovement of productive areas and suppression of the spring bloom, substantially altering CO2 exchanges between the ocean and the atmosphere at high latitudes (77), although the net effect is uncertain.
Q15. What is the way to integrate species on the move into integrated assessment models?
One avenue forward is to incorporate species redistribution and its associated effects into integrated assessmentmodels (IAMs) (102), which are used widely within the climate science community and are now being rapidly mobilized and extended to address synergies and trade-offs between multiple SDGs (103).
Q16. What is the main difference between climate-driven and non-native species?
Unlike the introduction of non-native species, which tends to be idiosyncratic and usually depends on humanmediated transport, climate-driven redistribution is ubiquitous, follows repeatedpatterns, and is poised to influence a greater proportion of Earth’s biota.