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Adapting systematic conservation planning for climate change

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With the high rate of ecosystem change, effective systematic conservation planning must account for ongoing and imminent threats to biodiversity to ensure its persistence. Accordingly, guidance on appropriate conservation actions in the face of climate change has been accumulating. We review this guidance and bring together the key recommendations needed to successfully account for climate change impacts, relevant to the scale at which natural resource management is carried out. We discuss how the traditional conservation tools of protection and restoration need to be adjusted to be effective in the face of climate change. We highlight the conservation innovations such as moveable and temporary reserves, and Targeted Gene Flow. We build on recent work to provide critical advice for considering climate change in conservation planning. In particular, we discuss how stating explicit objectives related to climate change adaptation, quantifying uncertainty, and exploring trade-offs will better place conservation plans to meet objectives for multiple goals such as protection of species, ecosystems, geophysical diversity and ecological processes.

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This work was funded by the Australian Government through the Regional NRM planning for climate change program. The work was developed through collaboration with Terrain NRM, in particular Penny Scott, and with Catherine Moran and Bob Pressey. Rebecca Runting, Stewart Macdonald and James Watson provided feedback on the manuscript.

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  2. Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia

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  3. School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia

    April E. Reside, Nathalie Butt & Vanessa M. Adams

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Reside, A.E., Butt, N. & Adams, V.M. Adapting systematic conservation planning for climate change. Biodivers Conserv 27, 1–29 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-017-1442-5

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