Animals (Impacts and Indicators)

Animals Sites:

World Health Organization (WHO): Using Climate to Predict Infectious Disease Outbreaks World Health Organization (WHO): Using Climate to Predict Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Review of the degree to which epidemics are sensitive to climate variations. Identifies candidate diseases and describes the conceptual framework for developing climate-based early warning systems. (Animals)[PDF] http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/en/oeh0401.pdf US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Seminar: Amphibian Declines in the Cloud Forests of Costa Rica US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Seminar: Amphibian Declines in the Cloud Forests of Costa Rica: Report of a case study into the present and future consequences of global warming for highland tropical forest ecosystems. A brief overview of the collapse of the entire amphibian fauna of Monteverde Cloud Forest, including the disappearance of the Golden (Animals) http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/seminars/990929FO.html Biodiversity and Climate Change Programme Biodiversity and Climate Change Programme: Reports and assesses threats to specific species and their habitats. Includes a link to the report "Water Birds on the Edge - First Circumpolar Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Arctic Breeding Water Birds" in PDF format. From the World Con (Animals) http://www.unep-wcmc.org/climate/home.htm US Environmental Health Information Service - Global Warming US Environmental Health Information Service - Global Warming: Government reports into the likely effects of climate change on public health. Includes news and research reports, and links to related articles. (Animals) http://ehis.niehs.nih.gov/topic/global/toc.html Effects of Global Warming on Trout and Salmon in US Streams Effects of Global Warming on Trout and Salmon in US Streams: A detailed report of results from a simulation study, estimating how stream temperatures will respond to changes in air temperature, and assessing the vulnerability of fish species to changes in availability of suitable habitat. Includes statistics, graph (Animals)[PDF] http://www.defenders.org/publications/fishreport.pdf Climate Change and Infectious Disease Climate Change and Infectious Disease: Demonstrates the importance of studying the volatility of infectious diseases as one of the earliest biological expressions of climate instability. From the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, Boston. (Animals)[PDF] http://www.med.harvard.edu/chge/epi.pdf Climate Change and its Effect on Migratory Birds Climate Change and its Effect on Migratory Birds: Long term study to identify and assess changes in the spatial distribution, abundance, and demography of the Black-Throated Blue Warbler and other bird species that breed in temperate forests. From the Migratory Bird Center of the Smithsonian National Zoo (Animals) http://www.natzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/Research/Climate_Change/default.cfm Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS): Coral Bleaching Index Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS): Coral Bleaching Index: The results of reef monitoring and regional surveys are used to provide up to date information on the status of corals around the world. Includes details of facilities, services, and current research projects. (Animals) http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/search/search-coral-bleaching.html Climate Change and Human Health Climate Change and Human Health: Aims to characterize and communicate scientific research, through integrated assessment, to support analysis and policy development. A program of the John Hopkins University, Baltimore. (Animals) http://www.jhu.edu/~climate/ Diatom Species Composition: Coastal Indicator Development and Information System Diatom Species Composition: Coastal Indicator Development and Information System: A study of species assemblages of single celled microscopic algae, often the dominant phytoplankters in Australian estuaries and the open ocean, to provide evidence of anthropogenic effects on aquatic habitats and water quality. From Dr. John Tibby, Unive (Animals) http://www.ozestuaries.org/indicators/In_bio_diatom_species_f.html Climate Change and Wildlife Climate Change and Wildlife: An overview including brief details of the various responses, from changed habits to species decline, of marine and freshwater fish, insects and other invertebrates, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, and birds. (Animals)[PDF] http://www.climatechangeconnection.org/pdfs_ccc/wildlife.pdf Climate Variability and Impacts on East African Livestock Herders Climate Variability and Impacts on East African Livestock Herders: A thesis in Microsoft Word 2000 document format, from Colorado State University and the International Livestock Research Institute of Kenya. Examines pastoral adaptation to climate and the vulnerability of the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. (Animals) http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/projects/scale/irc%20galvin.doc Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS): Climate Change, Migration and Security Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS): Climate Change, Migration and Security: Explores the relationship between changes in the natural environment and different patterns of human migration behaviour, and the implications these patterns may have for the security community. Provides illustrative case studies from China and Pakistan. (Animals) http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/eng/comment/com86_e.html AmphibiaWeb: Declining Amphibian Populations AmphibiaWeb: Declining Amphibian Populations: Summarizes some of the evidence of climate change around the world. Describes direct effects such as phenology, decline and extinction, and indirect effects such as decreased immune function due to increased exposure of amphibian embryos to ultraviolet ra (Animals) http://www.amphibiaweb.org/aw/declines/ClimateChange.html Triangle Island Seabird Research and Monitoring Program Triangle Island Seabird Research and Monitoring Program: Studies of the status of populations over time in British Columbia. Includes an investigation into changes in plankton population blooms caused by the rising temperature of the North Pacific Ocean, and the effect of this on adult seabird survival and repr (Animals) http://www.sfu.ca/biology/wildberg/bertram/triangle/index.htm On Thin Ice: Hudson Bay Polar Bears On Thin Ice: Hudson Bay Polar Bears: Examines the threat to the polar bear population at the southern extreme of the species' domain as Arctic seas thaw earlier and freeze later, bringing shorter periods of hunting on the ice and extra weeks of fasting. Provides evidence that this results in (Animals)[PDF] http://www.defenders.org/magazinenew/Fall2001/polar.pdf