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Secretariat of the CBD Technical Series No. 51 Convention on Biological Diversity Biodiversity and Climate Change:51 aChieving the 2020 targets Abstracts of Posters Presented at the 14th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 10-21 May 2010, Nairobi, Kenya CBD Technical Series No. 51 Biodiversity and Climate Change: Achieving the 2020 Targets Abstracts of Posters Presented at the 14th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 10-21 May 2010, Nairobi, Kenya Published by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. 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Citation Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2010). Biodiversity and Climate Change: Achieving the 2020 Targets. Abstracts of Posters Presented at the 14th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 10-21 May 2010, Nairobi, Kenya. Technical Series No. 51. Montreal, SCBD, 161 pages. Compiled by Jacqueline Grekin, SCBD. For further information, please contact: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity World Trade Centre 413 St. Jacques Street, Suite 800 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2Y 1N9 Phone: 1 (514) 288 2220 Fax: 1 (514) 288 6588 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.cbd.int Typesetting: Em Dash Design Cover Photos (Top to bottom) Baobab, Adansonia madagascariensis, endemic to Madagascar (photo: Joachim Gratsfeld, Botanic Gardens Conservation International); Students investigating the intertidal area, Chumbe Island Coral Park, Zanzibar, Tanzania (photo: Chumbe Island Coral Park); Seed diversity, India (photo: Paul Bordoni, Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research, Bioversity International); Coral reef walls, Apo Island, Philippines (photo: © Greenpeace/Daniel M Ocampo) Contents Foreword . 7 IntroductIon . 9 GoAl A: Indirect DrIverS of biodiversity loss 1. understandIng the indIrect drIvers of bIodIversIty loss from a systemIc perspectIve Ildikó Arany, Sarolta Tripolszky, Veronika Kiss . 13 2. bIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE Ethical Foundations for German National Strategies and Suggestions for their Communication Uta Eser, Thomas Potthast, Silke Lachnit, Albrecht Müller, Ann-Kathrin Neureuther, Markus Röhl, Matthias Schlee . 16 3. WOMEN’S KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES ON BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN THE HIMALAYAS Contributions to Climate Change Adaptation Brigitte Leduc and Tara Devi Dhakal . 19 4. CHUMBE ISLAND CORAL PARK EDUCATION PROGRAMME Communicating Biodiversity and Climate Change Lina Nordlund, Karlyn Langjahr . 22 5. EVALUACIÓN DEL ESTADO DE CONOCImIENTO BASE PARA LA TOMA DE DECIsIONES EN CAMBIO CLImÁtICO Impactos en la biodiversidad Pilar Rodríguez, Edith Calixto-Perez, Melanie Kolb, Georgia Born-Schmidt, and Patricia Koleff . 24 6. TRANSHIMALAYAN TRANSECTS An Approach for Long-Term Ecological Research and Environmental Monitoring to Enhance Climate Change Adaptation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas Eklabya Sharma, Robert Zomer, and Andreas Schild . 26 7. respondIng to the Value of Nature The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for National and International Policy Makers—A Summary Patrick ten Brink, Augustin Berghöfer, Christoph Schröter-Schlaack, Pavan Sukhdev, Alexandra Vakrou, Stephen White, and Heidi Wittmer . 29 8. lessons learnt in developIng bIodIversIty indIcators for a global target Tristan Tyrrell, Damon Stanwell-Smith, Anna Chenery, Philip Bubb, Matt Walpole, Peter Herkenrath . 32 GoAl B: DIrect DrIverS of biodiversity loss 9. bIODIVERSITY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND DESERTIFICATION ISSUES AFFECTING THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNItIES OF AFrICA A Case Study of the Sahel and the Horn Babagana Abubakar, Amina Bukar, Mairo Abubakar, Alhaji Bukar Kuya Monguno . 37 10. DESERTIFICATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON NIGERIa’S DRY LAND RESOURCES Andrew I . Ayeni . 39 11. clImate change and forests Dealing with an Uncertain Future Alissar Cheaib, Eric Dufrêne, Christophe François, Emmanuel Gritti, Isabelle Chuine, Vincent Badeau3, Myriam Legay, Wilfried Thuiller, Nicolas Viovy, Christine Delire, Julien Boe, Paul Leadley . 40 12. CONSERVATION CONNECTIvITY IN TRANSBOUNDARY LANDSCAPES An Approach for Climate Change Adaptation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region Nakul Chettri and Bandana Shakya . 42 3 Biodiversity and Climate Change: Achieving the 2020 Targets 13. eFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEFORESTATION IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOME VERTEBRATE SPECIES AND THE GENUS OPUNTIA INCLUDED IN THE STANDARD NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2001 IN MEXICO A . Frías-Villegas, V . Sánchez-Cordero, P . Illodli-Rangel, M . Linaje, K . Santos del Prado-Gasca, M . Caso-Chávez and E . M . Peters-Recagno . 45 14. coral ReeFs, BiodIversIty, Ecosystem servIces and clImate change A Post-Copenhagen Strategy Simon Harding, Anisha Grover, Alex Rogers, Jonathan Baillie . 47 15. planned AdaptatIon Increasing Habitat Biodiversity Under Climate Change By 2020 Marianne Karsh, Don MacIver . 50 16. MODELING SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON BIODIVERSITY A Case Study in the Grijalva-Usumacinta Watershed, Mexico Melanie Kolb, Georgia Born-Schmidt, Edith Calixto and Patricia Koleff . 53 17. ADDRESSING BIODIVERSITY LOSS THROUGH BIo-CONTROL AND MONITORING OF ALIEN AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES (SALVINIA MOLESTA) IN THE OKAVANGO DELTA Chandrasekar Kurugundla, Geofrey Khwarae and Nkobi Moleele . 55 18. CLIMATE CHANGE THREATS TO BIODIVERSITY IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIa The Potential Distribution of Alien Plants Stefan Nehring, Ingrid Kleinbauer, Stefan Dullinger, Franz Essl, Frank Klingenstein & Rudolf May . 57 19. THE SOLUTION TO GLOBAL WARMING COULD BE IN THE SOIl Peter Okoth, Jeroen Huising , Joyce Jefwa1, Sheila Okoth, Fredrick Ayuke, & Joseph Mung’atu . 60 20. MARINE RESERVES—A POWERFUL TOOL FOR BUFFERING MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AGAINST THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE Proposals from the Mediterranean, Pacific and Southern Ocean Nathalie Rey, Richard Page and Sofia Tsenikli . 63 21. CLIMATE CHANGE AND QUARRIES IMPACT ON FLORISTIC COMPOSItION Case Study of Vegetation Assessment on Limestone Hills in Bogor, West Java Annisa Satyanti . 66 22. FosterIng SynergIes between BIODIVERSITY conservatIon and food securIty Brigitte Schuster, Simone Schiller, Nadja Kasperczyk, Bettina Hedden-Dunkhorst . 69 23. the impact of clImate change on the vegetatIon of the RepublIc of Moldova Alexandru Teleuta, Stefan Lazu, Gradina Botanica (Institut) a A .S .M . 71 GoAl C: BIodiversity ConservatioN 24. THE PROTECTION OF FORESTS UNDER GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE POLICY D . Benick, S . Entenmann, T . Pistorius, C .B . Schmitt . 75 25. RESPONSIBLE FISHING TECHNOLOGIES TO MInImIZE BIODIVERSITY LOSS M .R . Boopendranath, P . Pravin and M .P . Remesan . 77 26. ANALYSIS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY IN THE HINDU KUSH-hIMALAYAN (hKh) COUNTRIES Bharat H . Desai and Krishna Prasad Oli . 80 27. grow AfrIca Planting Endangered African Trees for Forest Restoration and Carbon Sequestration Belinda Hawkins, Sara Oldfield . 82 28. CONSERVATION OF CROP WILD RELATIVES IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE D .G . Hunter, V .H . Heywood, B . Zapata Ferrufino, A . Wijisekara, S . Djataev, J . Ramelison, A . Danielyan and A . Jarvis . 84 29. ENABLING LONG-TERM CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY POLICY Nick King, Francois Rogers . 86 4 Biodiversity and Climate Change: Achieving the 2020 Targets 30. MOBIlIsING InFORMATION FOR ADAPTING AGRICULTURE TO CLIMATE CHANGE Nick King, Andy Jarvis, Francois Rogers . 87 31. PROVIdING MEANS FOR EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON CROP WILD RELATIVES Nick King, Andy Jarvis, Francois Rogers . 88 32. USING GBIF TO FORECAST CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON MARINE RESOURCES Nick King, Eamonn O Tuama, Francois Rogers . 89 33. Insect Mass OutbreaKs An Increasing Risk of Losing Biodiversity and Carbon in Forests? Anne le Mellec, Hans Peter Ravn, Annett Reinhardt, Jens Roland, Holger Vogt-Altena, Ignacy Korczynski, Jeffrey Hicke, Stefan Hohnwald, Jan Cermák, Nadezhda Nadezhdina, Jan Pokorny, Jerzy Karg and Bernd Zeller . 90 34. CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE EUROPEAN NATIVE SEED CONSERVATION NETWORK SEED COLLECTING PROTOCOL A Best Practice Example to Contribute to the New Strategic Plan of the Cbd While Safeguarding Europe’s Native Flora Jonas V . Müller and Ruth J . Eastwood . 92 35. UNDERUTIlIZED SPECIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE: CURRENT STATUS AND OUTLOOK Stefano Padulosi, Vernon Heywood, Danny Hunter1 and Andrew Jarvis . 94 36. the role of botanIc gardens in supportIng REDD-plus inItIatIves Catrin Probert, Suzanne Sharrock and Natasha Ali . 97