[Forest-list] 2014-07-13 NRMI: This Issue: Effects of Climate Change on Pastures and Some Other Good Things.

[H. Gyde Lund]

*2014-07-13**NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST*

This Issue:*/Effects of Climate Change on Pastures/***and Some Other 
Good Things.

*EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PASTURES *-- Recently there has been some 
attention given to the effect of climate change on pastures. Here are 
some sites that may be of interest.

Baker, Barry; Viglizzo, Ernesto F. 1998? *9. Rangeland and Livestock* 
<http://www.decisioncraft.com/energy/papers/hbccia/chap9.pdf>*. *In: 
UNEP/IVM Handbook 34 p.

*Climate change and sustainable livelihood of rural people in Mongolia* 
<http://www.nlcap.net/fileadmin/NCAP/Countries/Mongolia/032135.0508xx.MON.CON-01.Outputs-until-061202.v1.pdf>*.*Preliminary 
report..67 p.

Colpaert, Alfred et al. 2003. *Reindeer Pasture Biomass Assessment Using 
Satellite Remote Sensing* 
<http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic56-2-147.pdf>. Arctic 56(2): 
147-158.

El-Tantawi, Attia Mahmoud Mohamed. 1966. *Climate Change in Libya and 
Desertification of Jifara Plain Using Geographical Information System 
and Remote Sensing Techniques* <http://d-nb.info/97597503X/34>. 
Dissertation. 261 p.**

Eniolorunda, Nathaniel Bayode 2014. *Climate Change Analysis and 
Adaptation: The Role of Remote Sensing (Rs) and Geographical Information 
System (Gis).* 
<http://www.ijceronline.com/papers/Vol4_issue01/Vol.4.Ver-.1%2801%29/E040101041051.pdf>International 
Journal Of Computational Engineering Research 04(1)

Fang, Xiuqin et al. 2014.*Analysis of vegetation dynamics and climatic 
variability impacts on greenness across Canada using remotely sensed 
data from 2000 to 2009 
<http://remotesensing.spiedigitallibrary.org/article.aspx?articleid=1850281>*. 
SPIE Digital Library.

FAO. 2008. *Climate change adaptation and mitigation in the food and 
agriculture sector.* 
<ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/meeting/013/ai782e.pdf>Technical 
background document from the expert consultation held on 5 to 7 March 
2008. 17 p.

Feenstra, Jan F. et al. eds.1998.*Handbook on Methods for Climate Change 
Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies 
<http://lib.icimod.org/record/13767/files/7157.pdf>*. Version 2.0. 464 p.

Gavazov, K. S., et al. 2013. *Dynamics of forage production in 
pasture-woodlands of the Swiss Jura Mountains under projected climate 
change scenarios.* 
<http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss1/art38/>Ecology and Society 
18(1): 38.

Gunlycke, Naemi; Tuomaala, Anja. 2011. *Detecting forest degradation in 
Marakwet district, Kenya, using remote sensing and GIS* 
<https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=1971248&fileOId=1971252>. 
Seminar series nr 200. 78 p.

Hartman, Ingrid et al. 2009 *The Impact of Climate Change on Pastoral 
Societies of Somaliland.* 
<http://wardheernews.com/Organizations/Amoud_Foundation/climate_%20Somaliland_amoud_univer.pdf>Candlelight 
for Health, Education & Environment Report. 62 p.

Maynard, N.G. et al. 2008. *Eurasian Reindeer Pastoralism in a Changing 
Climate: Indigenous Knowledge & NASA Remote Sensing* 
<http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20080041555.pdf>. 
26 p.

McKeon, G.M et al. 2009. *Climate change impacts on Australia's 
rangeland livestock carrying capacity: A review of challenges.* 
<http://lwa.gov.au/files/products/innovation/pn30114/pn30114.pdf>Report 
for Land & Water Australia Senior Research Fellowship (QNR46). 78 p.

*Projected impacts of climate changes on agriculture.* 
<http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/research/topics/climate-change/agriculture>NSW.

Rakonczai, J. et al. 2008. *Climate change and changing landscape -- a 
comparative evaluation on Chinese and Hungarian sample areas* 
<http://www.geo.u-szeged.hu/journal/files/articles/akta_2008_3.pdf>.Journal 
of Env. Geogr. 1(1-2): 23-30.

Renchin, Tsolom et al. 2009. *Land Use Change Analysis in Uvurkhnagai 
Province* 
<http://www.asprs.org/a/publications/proceedings/baltimore09/0079.pdf>(Mongolia). 
ASPRS 2009 Annual Conference. 8 p.

Singh, Sudhir Kumar. 2010. *Temporal monitoring impact of land use and 
land cover change in Shiwalik hills of Punjab, India using satellite 
remote sensing.* 
<http://www.geospatialworld.net/Paper/Application/ArticleView.aspx?aid=459>Geospatial 
World.

The Bridge Fund. 2012. *Climate Change Impacts on the Tibetan Plateau.* 
<http://bridgefund.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Climate-Change-Impacts-on-the-Tibetan-Plateau-2012-The-Bridge-Fund.pdf>39 
p.

Tolba, Mostafa K.; Saab. Najib W. 2009.*Arab Environment: Climate Change 
- Impact of Climate Change on Arab Countries* 
<http://ipcc-wg2.gov/njlite_download.php?id=6784>. 2009 report of the 
Arab forum for environment and development. 181 p.

Traore, S.; Owiyo, T. 2013. *Dirty droughts causing loss and damage in 
Northern Burkina Faso.* 
<http://www.lossanddamage.net/download/7233.pdf>Int. J. Global Warming, 
5(4):498--513.

Weber, Keith T. et al. 2013. *Forecasting Rangeland Condition with GIS 
in Southeastern 
Idaho*<http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2111/REM-D-11-00135.1>Rangeland 
Ecology and Management 66(1): 82-87. Abstract.

Weber, Keith T.; Davis, Kerynn. Eds. 2010. *Final Report: Forecasting 
Rangeland Condition with GIS in Southeastern Idaho (NNG06GD82G* 
<http://giscenter.isu.edu/research/techpg/nasa_oneal/pdf/FinalReportNASA_ONeal.pdf>) 
189 p.

Weber, Keith T.; Gokhale, Bhushan S. 2010.*Effect of Grazing Treatment 
on Soil Moisture in Semiarid Rangelands* 
<http://giscenter.isu.edu/research/techpg/nasa_oneal/pdf/ch15.pdf>. In: 
Final Report: Forecasting Rangeland Condition with GIS in Southeastern 
Idaho. 14 p.

White, David H.; Howden, S. Mark. 2010? *Climate and its effects on crop 
productivity and Management* 
<http://www.eolss.net/sample-chapters/c10/e1-05a-02-00.pdf>. EOLSS. 9 p.

*SOME PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST*

Dallimer, M., et al.. 2014. *Quantifying preferences for the natural 
world using monetary and nonmonetary assessments of value 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24372643>*. Conserv. Biol. 
28(2):404-413. Abstract.

Danielsen, F., et al. 2014. *A multicountry assessment of tropical 
resource monitoring by local communities. 
<http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/02/18/biosci.biu001.abstract> 
*BioScience 64(3):236-251. Abtract.

Dávalos, L.M., et al. 2014. *Demand for beef is unrelated to pasture 
expansion in northwestern Amazonia 
<http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/elsevier/demand-for-beef-is-unrelated-to-pasture-expansion-in-northwestern-zc0z3jUp7G>*. 
Biol. Conserv. 170:64-73. First page.

De Barros, A.E., et al. 2014. *Identification of areas in Brazil that 
optimize conservation of forest carbon, jaguars, and biodiversity. 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12202/abstract>* 
Conserv. Biol. 28(2):580-593. Abstract.

Doak, D.F., et al.. 2014. *What is the future of conservation?* 
<http://klamathconservation.org/docs/blogdocs/doaketal2013.pdf> Trends 
Ecol. Evol. 29(2):77-81.

Edwards, F.A., et al. 2014. *Does logging and forest conversion to oil 
palm agriculture alter functional diversity in a biodiversity hotspot? 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acv.12074/abstract>* Anim. 
Conserv. 17(2):163-173. Abstract.

Estes, L.D., et al. 2014. *Using changes in agricultural utility to 
quantify future climate-induced risk to conservation 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12205/abstract>. 
*Conserv. Biol. 28(2):427-437. Abstract.

Estrada, A.; Butler, R. 2013. *Multiple approaches to tropical 
conservation. 
<http://tropicalconservationscience.mongabay.com/content/v6/TCS-2013_sep_editorial.pdf>* 
Trop. Conserv. Sci. 6(4):I-I

Frazier, Ryan J. et al. 2014. *Characterization of aboveground biomass 
in an unmanaged boreal forest using Landsat temporal segmentation 
metrics <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.03.003>*. ISPRS 
Journal 92: 137-146. Abstract.

Frontoni, Emanuele, et al. 2014. *SIT-REM: An Interoperable and 
Interactive Web Geographic Information System for Fauna, Flora and Plant 
Landscape Data Management <http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi3020853>*. 
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information: 853-867

Fujioka, E., et al. 2014. *Data integration for conservation: Leveraging 
multiple data types to advance ecological assessments and habitat 
modeling for marine megavertebrates using OBIS-SEAMAP. 
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954114000041>* 
Ecol. Inform. 20:13-26. Abstract.

Gómez, Cristina et al. 2014. *Historical forest biomass dynamics 
modelled with Landsat spectral trajectories. 
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.03.008> *ISPRS Journal 93: 
14-28. Abstract.

IPS.**2014.*Picture the world as a desert 
<http://www.trust.org/item/20140618024626-9bu3c/>*

Jacob, Aerin L. et al. 2014. *Topographic and spectral data resolve land 
cover misclassification to distinguish and monitor wetlands in western 
Uganda. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.05.001>* ISPRS 
Journal 94: 114-126. Abstract.

Jia, Kun et al. 2014. *Land cover classification of finer resolution 
remote sensing data integrating temporal features from time series 
coarser resolution data 
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.04.004>*. ISPRS Journal 93: 
49-55.. Abstract.

Kuiper, T.R.; Parker, D.M. 2014. *Elephants in Africa: big, grey 
biodiversity 
thieves?<http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/95337068/elephants-africa-big-grey-biodiversity-thieves>*S. 
Afr. J. Sci. 110(3-4):7- Abstract.**

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