RESOURCE GUIDE

Ben Rosburg

Annotated Bibliography

11/12/2015

 

@defenders. "Impacts of Climate Change." Last modified 2012-03-21, 2012. http://www.defenders.org/climate-change/impacts-climate-change.

-          This article gives very good information of climate change overall. Understanding climate change impacts is at the roots of understanding how climate change can and will impact animals so this will be of benefit on my paper.

 

@nwf. "Effects on Wildlife and Habitat - National Wildlife Federation." (2015).

-          This article from the national wildlife federation lists off several impacts on how climate change disrupts wildlife and especially how it disrupts their habitat. With a decreasing amount of habitat remaining, this puts a great deal of stress on animal populations.

 

"Arctic Climate Change: 5. How Will Animals Be Affected by Arctic Warming?". 2015. http://www.greenfacts.org/en/arctic-climate-change/l-2/5-arctic-animals.htm.

-          This website looks specifically at how animals in the artic are being affected by climate change. It has a series of links that will be of great benefit to my paper as it covers a wide array of information regarding how the artic is changing for the negative and this puts stresses on animal populations.

 

"Climate Change Effect on Animals." 2015. http://kanat.jsc.vsc.edu/student/swift/mainpage.htm.

-          This is another great link that looks at how climate change effects animal populations. This is a case study that goes in depth and looks at many different angles and factors on climate change and its impact on animals. I should study this article thoroughly and use in my paper significantly.

 

 

"Climate Change: The Effects on Ocean Animals." 2015. http://www.neaq.org/conservation_and_research/climate_change/effects_on_ocean_animals.php.

-          This is a unique article as it looks at how climate change effects animals in aquatic environments such as the oceans. It talks about how with rising temperatures globally, the water temperatures are also increasing and this once again adds stress to animal populations. Will be of value for my paper to show multiple areas of animal populations effected.

 

DeGregorio, Brett A., James D. Westervelt, Patrick J. Weatherhead, and Jinelle H. Sperry. "Indirect Effect of Climate Change: Shifts in Ratsnake Behavior Alter Intensity and Timing of Avian Nest Predation." Ecological Modelling 312 (2015): 239-46.

-          This article shows a unique perspective on climate change and its impacts on animals by looking at ratsnake behavior. This will be a way to multiple different ways that climate change impacts animals that might not be initially thought of.

 

"Effects of Climate Change | Threats | Wwf." 2015. http://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/effects-of-climate-change.

-          This article goes very in-depth on the topic of climate change and animal impacts from the world wildlife foundation. It gives a large amount of quality information on a wide variety of climate change issues related to animals. This will be a very valuable article to my paper.

 

Firn, Jennifer, Ramona Maggini, Iadine Chadès, Sam Nicol, Belinda Walters, Andy Reeson, Tara G. Martin, et al. "Priority Threat Management of Invasive Animals to Protect Biodiversity under Climate Change." Global Change Biology 21, no. 11 (2015): 3917-30.

-          This is a study that looks at a large amount of unique perspectives of climate change and invasive animals. Invasive animals may often times be an afterthought in terms of being harmed in climate change and this study address that issue.

 

Shafer, Craig L. "From Non-Static Vignettes to Unprecedented Change: The U.S. National Park System, Climate Impacts and Animal Dispersal." Environmental Science & Policy 40 (2014): 26-35.

-          In this article the US nat’l park system looks at the effects of climate change and dispersal of animal populations. It is important to look at how climate change impacts the ability of animals to live and thrive in certain areas and this article address how climate change may limit this.

 

"Species Threatened by Climate Change." 2015. http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/aboutcc/problems/impacts/species/.

-          This article gives a list of species that are being impacted by climate change. In my paper it will be important to be able to give examples of animals that are being effected by climate change and this article will be of great aid for this.

 

Swim, Janet K., and Brittany Bloodhart. "Portraying the Perils to Polar Bears: The Role of Empathic and Objective Perspective-Taking toward Animals in Climate Change Communication." Environmental Communication 9, no. 4 (2015): 446-68.

-          This article looks at the classic example of the polar bear being effected by showing how climate change can make what were once perfectly able to live in an area, much more difficult to survive. This may be because it is too warm for certain animals to live in certain areas or because the climate change alters the landscape past points that can be suitable for certain animals to live.

 

US EPA, OAR, Climate Change Division. "Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems." http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/impacts/effects/ecosystems.html

-          This article is of value because it adds plants to the equation on how climate change can effect ecosystems. I want to be able to give a wide variety of information on how climate change impacts ecosystems and this article will help greatly. Climate change may limit the ability of a plant to grow that previously was a food source for a species and if a plant is no longer able to grow in an area, animals may no longer be able to survive in the area as a result.