1. Iremonger, S. (2013) Sea Level Rise and Biodiversity Loss. Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, 151pp.
Global climate change is causing the levels of the oceans and seas to rise. Even small increases in sea level can flood huge areas of land, causing environmental and economic havoc. Coastal lands support a rich variety of biodiversity in the low-lying habitats around the shore. These are being forced to move upwards and squeezed into increasingly smaller spaces. The availability of high-resolution topographic data provides the opportunity to identify and quantify the habitat areas that will be affected by increasing sea levels. Powerful modelling using GIS technology facilitates visualisation of scenarios of habitat loss. Identifying the location and identity of habitats at risk is the first essential step in the process of planning their protection and conservation. The ClewBay area on the west coast of Ireland is home to a fantastic array of natural communities and has been designated a Special Area of Conservation under EU law. This study, which pilots the methodology for an Irish coastal area, presents the scenarios for habitat inundation up to 2100 and beyond. The methodology and findings will be of great interest to GIS professionals in the environmental sphere and to ecologists and economists interested in planning coastal conservation and defence.
2. Iremonger, S. (2002). A Guide to Plants of the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. University of the West Indies Press, Jamaica. 280pp.
http://www.uwipress.com/content/guide-plants-blue-mountains-jamaica
This easy-to-use Jamaican nature guide identifies over 400 species and contains over 160 colour photographs and 250 line drawings. The text is designed to give both botanists and the casual observer an opportunity to discover the plants that grow in the Blue Mountain Range. The aim of this Guide is to foster a deeper understanding of the unique beauty and diversity of the mountain forest. More than half of the plants described in the book are unique to Jamaica and many of them are found only in the Blue Mountains. The forests of the Blue Mountains are currently threatened by agricultural activities, particularly on the southern slopes, and many of the unique species are threatened with extinction. However, the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, established in 1988, remains a preserve for the natural history of the range.
3. Iremonger, S., C. Ravilious & T. Quinton (Eds.) (1997). A global overview of forest conservation. Including: GIS files of forests and protected areas, version 2. CD-ROM. CIFOR and WCMC, Cambridge, U.K.
If you would like to access the statistical analysis of forest protection, Please click here http://www.unep-wcmc-apps.org/forest/data/cdrom2/index.html
If you are interested in this CDROM, Please contact the author after reading below.
While working in the Forest Programme of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, a major responsibility was to build up the GIS databases containing information on forests worldwide. CIFOR, the Center for International Forest Research in Indonesia (part of the U.N. CGIAR system), was a collaborator in this effort, which it recognised as being important for forest conservation monitoring at a worldwide level. Initially thes maps and datasets were restricted to tropical moist forests, and had been used in the publications Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests. The data layers used for the Atlas publications, showing forests and protected areas of the tropical regions of the world were published on a CD-ROM, Tropical Moist Forests and Protected Areas (J. Rhind and S. Iremonger-Editors, 1996). The work continued and expanded to the temperate and boreal regions of the globe, compiling national and regional maps of forests. These came to the GIS lab in various forms, hard copy or digital, and in many different projections and formats. They were converted into Arc/INFO format for manipulation. A wide range of forest classifications used in the different maps and datasets were harmonised into 26 conservation-relevant classes. The datasets were published on a CD-ROM: A Global Overview of Forest Conservation (S. Iremonger, C. Ravilious and T. Quinton -Editors, 1997). During 1996-97 the digital files were used in an overlay analysis to render a Statistical Analysis of Global Forest Conservation. This study is available on the Web, and was also published on the aforementioned CD.
4. Rhind, J.& S. Iremonger (Eds.) (1996). Tropical Moist Forest and Protected Areas – the digital files, version 1. CD-ROM. CIFOR, WCMC and ODA
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