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Do Invasive Mammal Eradications from Islands Support Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation? CLIMATE 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/cli9120172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Climate change represents a planetary emergency that is exacerbating the loss of native biodiversity. In response, efforts promoting climate change adaptation strategies that improve ecosystem resilience and/or mitigate climate impacts are paramount. Invasive Alien Species are a key threat to islands globally, where strategies such as preventing establishment (biosecurity), and eradication, especially invasive mammals, have proven effective for reducing native biodiversity loss and can also advance ecosystem resilience and create refugia for native species at risk from climate change. Furthermore, there is growing evidence that successful eradications may also contribute to mitigating climate change. Given the cross-sector potential for eradications to reduce climate impacts alongside native biodiversity conservation, we sought to understand when conservation managers and funders explicitly sought to use or fund the eradication of invasive mammals from islands to achieve positive climate outcomes. To provide context, we first summarized available literature of the synergistic relationship between invasive species and climate change, including case studies where invasive mammal eradications served to meet climate adaptation or mitigation solutions. Second, we conducted a systematic review of the literature and eradication-related conference proceedings to identify when these synergistic effects of climate and invasive species were explicitly addressed through eradication practices. Third, we reviewed projects from four large funding entities known to support climate change solutions and/or native biodiversity conservation efforts and identified when eradications were funded in a climate change context. The combined results of our case study summary paired with systematic reviews found that, although eradicating invasive mammals from islands is an effective climate adaptation strategy, island eradications are poorly represented within the climate change adaptation and mitigation funding framework. We believe this is a lost opportunity and encourage eradication practitioners and funders of climate change adaptation to leverage this extremely effective nature-based tool into positive conservation and climate resilience solutions.
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Shefferson RP, Kull T, Hutchings MJ, Selosse MA, Jacquemyn H, Kellett KM, Menges ES, Primack RB, Tuomi J, Alahuhta K, Hurskainen S, Alexander HM, Anderson DS, Brys R, Brzosko E, Dostálik S, Gregg K, Ipser Z, Jäkäläniemi A, Jersáková J, Dean Kettle W, McCormick MK, Mendoza A, Miller MT, Moen A, Øien DI, Püttsepp Ü, Roy M, Sather N, Sletvold N, Štípková Z, Tali K, Warren RJ, Whigham DF. Drivers of vegetative dormancy across herbaceous perennial plant species. Ecol Lett 2018; 21:724-733. [PMID: 29575384 DOI: 10.1111/ele.12940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2017] [Revised: 01/17/2018] [Accepted: 02/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Vegetative dormancy, that is the temporary absence of aboveground growth for ≥ 1 year, is paradoxical, because plants cannot photosynthesise or flower during dormant periods. We test ecological and evolutionary hypotheses for its widespread persistence. We show that dormancy has evolved numerous times. Most species displaying dormancy exhibit life-history costs of sprouting, and of dormancy. Short-lived and mycoheterotrophic species have higher proportions of dormant plants than long-lived species and species with other nutritional modes. Foliage loss is associated with higher future dormancy levels, suggesting that carbon limitation promotes dormancy. Maximum dormancy duration is shorter under higher precipitation and at higher latitudes, the latter suggesting an important role for competition or herbivory. Study length affects estimates of some demographic parameters. Our results identify life historical and environmental drivers of dormancy. We also highlight the evolutionary importance of the little understood costs of sprouting and growth, latitudinal stress gradients and mixed nutritional modes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Richard P Shefferson
- Organization for Programs in Environmental Sciences, University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex, BN1 9QG, UK
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- Institut Systématique Evolution Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, 57 rue Cuvier, CP39, 75005, Paris, France.,Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Brussels, Belgium
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- Institute of Biology, University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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- Department of Biology, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, West Virginia, USA
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- Department of Biology of Ecosystems, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Biology of Ecosystems, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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- Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad Universitario, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Trondheim, Norway
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- Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, Université Paul Sabatier - CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Natural Resources, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Science, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
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Rick TC, Sillett TS, Ghalambor CK, Hofman CA, Ralls K, Anderson RS, Boser CL, Braje TJ, Cayan DR, Chesser RT, Collins PW, Erlandson JM, Faulkner KR, Fleischer R, Funk WC, Galipeau R, Huston A, King J, Laughrin L, Maldonado J, McEachern K, Muhs DR, Newsome SD, Reeder-Myers L, Still C, Morrison SA. Ecological Change on California's Channel Islands from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. Bioscience 2014. [DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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