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Effects of landscape connectivity on ecosystem adaptation to climate
change in Central America
Bruno Locatelli, CIRAD-CIFOR, Indonesia
Pablo Imbach, CATIE, Costa Rica
EuropeAid/ENV/2004-81719
Seminar series on climate change and forest management, BC Ministry of Forests and Range Future Forest Ecosystem Initiative.November 6, 2008. Teleconference between Canada and Costa Rica
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Climate change and ecosystem migration
• CC modifies location of suitable environments for plants (Hannah et al., 2002)
• Future distribution of ecosystems depends on the ability of plants to migrate (Pitelka et al., 1997; Kirilenko et al., 2000)
– High migration rates (>1000 m/yr) required to adapt to CC (Malcolm et al., 2002)
• Many studies on CC and ecosystems consider unlimited dispersal or no dispersal (Pearson, 2006)
• Uncertainties on migration rates of trees:– During post-glacial warming
• 100’s to 1000’s m/yr(Pearson 2006, Malcolm et al., 2002),
• less than 100 m/yr (McLachlan et al., 2005)
– Models of current migration• Around 100 m/yr (Dyer, 1995)
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Biological corridors and protected areas
• Landscape alteration may reducemigration capacity (Pitelka, 1997)
– Altering dispersal rate– Reducing suitable habitat for successful colonization
• Corridors can enhance landscape connectivity between valuable vegetation areas (e.g. protected areas)
• Their role in migration under CC depends on spatial patterns
• Latitudinal and altitudinal gradients– Is it so simple?
ProtectedArea
Corridor
Direction of species movement due to CC
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Can corridors facilitate ecosystem migration between protected areas in a context of CC?
Case of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridorin Costa Rica
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Costa RicaPanama
NicaraguaHonduras
El SalvadorGuatemala
BelizeMexico
Study site
• Costa Rica– Biological richness & conservation policies– “Increasing isolation of protected areas may
prevent them from functioning as an effective network” (Sánchez-Azofeifa et al., 2003)
(CCAD-UNDP/GEF, 2002)
Protected Areas
Biological Corridors
• The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (MBC)
– Regional initiative – Conceptualized and agreedupon in 1997– Under progressive implementation
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Protected Areas
Mesoamerican corridor
Pacific Ocean
Caribbean Sea
Nicaragua
Panama
Costa Rica
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Approach and model assumptions (1/2)
• Simple representation of vegetation– Model ≠ evolution of vegetation
– Model = landscape connectivity
– Vegetation types =Holdridge life zones
– Each vegetation type is composed of 5 groups of species with different migration rates
• From slow (100 m/yr) to fast-moving (2000 m/yr)
Holdridge
• Cellular Automata
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Model assumptions (2/2)
• Migration is possible through contiguous pixels with vegetation
• 4 scenarios– No migration– Migration
• With vegetation only in protected areas
• With vegetation in protected areas and corridors
• With vegetation everywhere (“Eden”)
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Algorithm
Controller Pixel px Species spft,lz
Estimate 1990 Life Zone (lz1990)
Create baseline presence:presence(px,spft,lz1990)=1
Initialize
RunEstimate Current
Life Zone (lzcurrent ) sp adapted to lzcurrent? No: presence:=presence/2
Yes: sp already present in px?Yes: presence:=presence*2
(with upper bounddue to carrying capacity)
No: sp in neighbourhood? (radius=migration(ft))
Yes: presence:=0.25No: presence:=0
Updateindicators
Next decade
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Data• Scales
– Spatial = 2.5 arc min (around 4.6 km x 4.6 km)
– Temporal = Decades, from 1990 to 2050
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
PanamaPacific Ocean
Caribbean Sea
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Pacific Ocean
Caribbean Sea
Protected AreasBiological Corridors
• Climate and altitude– WorldClim dataset (Hijmans et al., 2005):
• Altitude, Monthly Precipitation and Temperature
– Current and future • IPCC scenario A2• HadCM3 climate model
• Protected Areas and Biological Corridors– CCAD map, 2001
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Results and discussion
Life zonemovement
86°W 81.5°W
12°N
8°N
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High impacts
Low impacts
Pacific Ocean
Caribbean Sea
Nicaragua
Panama
N
Protected areas most sensitive to CC(no migration scenario)
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Protected areas under different migration scenarios
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Protected areas and corridorsProtected areas onlyNo migration
Effect of corridors
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Which protected areas benefit morefrom corridors?
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Which corridors contribute moreto the adaptation of protected areas?
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How to explain these results?
Direction of Life Zone Movement
Corridors and Areas not evaluated
Important corridors
(connecting isolated and vulnerable areas, in a
good direction)
Missing corridors?
Already connected protected areas
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Conclusion• Sensitivity of protected areas to CC
– Especially isolated areas and in mountain and dry zones
• Role of corridors for reducing vulnerability
• Useful tool for:– Identifying vulnerable protected areas– Prioritizing corridors in a context of CC
• Further steps:– Consider actual vegetation outside protected
areas and corridors– Use different climate scenarios– Use different representations of ecosystem
dynamics and migration– Perform sensitivity analysis
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Thank you!