Dynamic Conservation Planning in a changing climate - Report
13th-19th November 2009
Convened by: Bob Pressey, Stephen Williams
Funds provided by the NCCARF Terrestrial Biodiversity network were recently used to convene a workshop from the 9-13th of November 2009 concerning dynamic conservation planning for maintaining biodiversity under uncertain future global climate scenarios. The workshop was convened by Bob Pressey and Stephen Williams, situated in the Daintree Region of
On day one workshop participants were posed with the question: ‘What does current conservation planning NOT do, which it should do better, to deal with climate change?’ Roundtable discussions, led by the convenors, identified a number of challenges faced by conservation planners now and in the future. In response to these problems, the attendees framed outlines for three manuscripts:
- a review of current and future directions for dynamic conservation planning,
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an exploration of
- and the role of communities/ecosystems as a surrogate for biodiversity in conservation planning.
Small working groups were formed to flesh out the contents of the manuscript outlines during the conference. These groups made good progress on all three manuscripts, with the expectation that all will be submitted for peer review within two-three months
Stephen Garnet circulated a draft paper from this workshop. The draft papers are currently being writting.
Participants: Bob Pressey, Steve Williams, Luke Shoo, Lorena Falconi,
