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Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Americas brings together top researchers, industry representatives and managers of climate change and forest biodiversity research and monitoring activities from North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. It will provide an opportunity for researchers and decision makers from a wide range of disciplines to share results and information in a pan-American event. The symposium program includes invited keynote and plenary presentations, panel presentations, poster sessions, and study tours.

The focus of the symposium will be structured to address regional themes on climate change and biodiversity as well as approaches, techniques and integrated studies. This symposium will allow participants to collaborate with other managers of climate and forest biodiversity monitoring networks, compare data from across the Americas, share local strategies, learn latest advances in adaptation and gain an understanding of threats and impacts to biodiversity as a result of a changing climate.

Symposium themes include:

1. Current status of climate change and forest biodiversity monitoring throughout the Americas: case studies and comparative research.

2. Impacts to forest biodiversity from global climate change including El Niño events, infectious disease, invasive species, hurricanes, forest fires, land degradation, periodic drought and desertification.

3. Adaptation and sustainability options, interactions and synergies between global climate change and forest biodiversity.

4. Future networks, research collaborations, and the establishment of an America-wide network of climate change and of biodiversity sites across climate, chemical and ecological gradients.

The goals of the symposium are to:

1. Review the baseline data and systematic observation networks to assess biodiversity conservation, sustainability options and policy responses to global climate change.

2. Integrate our knowledge of likely future changes on forest biodiversity, from a changing climate, reflecting both scientific and traditional knowledge.

3. Report on predictive models and decision support tools to guide the design and selection of adaptation strategies from local to regional scales.

4. Establish a framework for future collaborative research on climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development.