@article{1397719,
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      author = {Hannah, Lee Jay.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1397719},
      title = {Saving a million species extinction risk from climate  change / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Island Press,},
      abstract = {"The research paper "Extinction Risk from Climate Change"  published in the journal Nature in January 2004 created  front-page headlines around the world. The notion that  climate change could drive more than a million species to  extinction captured both the popular imagination and the  attention of policy-makers, and provoked an unprecedented  round of scientific critique. _ Saving a Million Species  reconsiders the central question of that paper: How many  species may perish as a result of climate change and  associated threats? Leaders from a range of disciplines  synthesize the literature, refine the original estimates,  and elaborate the conservation and policy implications. The  book: *examines the initial extinction risk estimates of  the original paper, subsequent critiques, and the media  *and policy impact of this unique study *presents evidence  of extinctions from climate change from different time  frames in the past *explores extinctions documented in the  contemporary record *sets forth new risk estimates for  future climate change *considers the conservation and  policy implications of the estimates. Saving a Million  Species offers a clear explanation of the science behind  the headline-grabbing estimates for conservationists,  researchers, teachers, students, and policy-makers. It is a  critical resource for helping those working to conserve  biodiversity take on the rapidly advancing and evolving  global stressor of climate change-the most important issue  in conservation biology today, and the one for which we are  least prepared"--},
      recid = {1397719},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 417 p.) :},
      address = {Washington, DC :},
      year = {2012},
}