Publications by authors named "Christina R Leopold"
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- The conservation community is focusing on recovering species at risk of extinction, particularly in Maui, by implementing climate-resilient recovery plans for 36 native plant species.
- A tailored spatial conservation prioritization (SCP) approach was developed, emphasizing transparency, flexibility, and expert engagement, consisting of generating multiple prioritization solutions and selecting the best based on expert-agreed criteria.
- This method reduced the necessary conservation area by 36% while still ensuring high-quality habitats for species, proving more effective than existing tools like prioritizr by enhancing local recovery planning efforts.
Montane plant communities throughout the world have responded to changes in temperature regimes by shifting ranges upward in elevation, and made downslope movements to track shifts in climatic water balance. Organisms that cannot disperse or adapt biologically to projected climate scenarios in situ may decrease in distributional range and abundance over time. Restoration strategies will need to incorporate the habitat suitability of future predicted conditions to ensure long-term persistence.
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