Climate-change adaptation focuses on conducting and translating research to minimize the dire impacts of anthropogenic climate change, including threats to biodiversity and human welfare. One adaptation strategy is to focus conservation on climate-change refugia (that is, areas relatively buffered from contemporary climate change over time that enable persistence of valued physical, ecological, and sociocultural resources). In this Special Issue, recent methodological and conceptual advances in refugia science will be highlighted. Advances in this emerging subdiscipline are improving scientific understanding and conservation in the face of climate change by considering scale and ecosystem dynamics, and looking beyond climate exposure to sensitivity and adaptive capacity. We propose considering refugia in the context of a multifaceted, long-term, network-based approach, as temporal and spatial gradients of ecological persistence that can act as "slow lanes" rather than areas of stasis. After years of discussion confined primarily to the scientific literature, researchers and resource managers are now working together to put refugia conservation into practice.

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气候变化避难所：慢车道上的生物多样性


气候变化适应的重点是开展和转化研究，以尽量减少人为气候变化的可怕影响，包括对生物多样性和人类福祉的威胁。一项适应策略是将保护重点放在气候变化保护区（即随着时间的推移，相对缓冲当代气候变化的区域，从而使有价值的物理、生态和社会文化资源得以持久存在）。在本期特刊中，将重点介绍庇护所科学的最新方法和概念进展。这一新兴分支学科的进步正在通过考虑规模和生态系统动态，并超越气候暴露的敏感性和适应能力，提高面对气候变化的科学理解和保护。我们建议在多方面、长期、基于网络的方法的背景下考虑避难所，将其视为生态持久性的时间和空间梯度，可以充当“慢车道”而不是停滞区域。经过多年主要局限于科学文献的讨论后，研究人员和资源管理者现在正在共同努力将保护区保护付诸实践。