ABSTRACT
Climate change presents unprecedented challenges and is likely to stimulate profound changes in the practice of natural resource management. Many management practices that were routine in the past will need to be reevaluated as ecosystems adjust to changes in temperature, precipitation, storm events, and sea level rise (Palmer et al. 2009; Sutherland et al. 2004). Uncertainties will increase regarding the appropriate conservation targets, the outcomes of alternative management practices, and how to evaluate trade-offs among competing conservation objectives. New tools will be needed to cope with this uncertainty. Resource managers will need to work closely with species and ecosystem scientists, as well as modelers, decision analysts, statisticians, information technologists, and other technical experts to ef¡ciently monitor and improve the outcomes of their management practices.
