Saving a million species [electronic resource] : extinction risk from climate change / edited by Lee Hannah.
Hannah, Lee Jay.
2012
QC902.9 .S28 2012eb
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Title Saving a million species [electronic resource] : extinction risk from climate change / edited by Lee Hannah.
ISBN 9781610911825 (electronic bk.)
1610911822 (electronic bk.)
9781597265690
1597265691
9781610911826
1610911825
9781597265706
1597265705
1610911822
Publication Details Washington, DC : Island Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 417 p.) : ill., maps.
Call Number QC902.9 .S28 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 551.6
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
"How many species may perish as a result of climate change and other associated threats? Saving a Million Species addresses this question. Leaders from relevant disciplines synthesize the literature, refine the original estimates, and elaborate the conservation and policy implications. The ultimate goal of this book is to suggest ways to stem a wave of extinctions due to climate change. By understanding the drivers and magnitude of change, policymakers and conservationists should gain critical insights into effective responses"-- Provided by publisher.
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Are a million species at risk? / Lee Hannah
First estimates of extinction risk from climate change / Chris D. Thomas
Climate change, extinction risk, and public policy / Jonathan Mawdsley, Guy Midgley, and Lee Hannah
Refining risk estimates using models / Alison Cameron
The use and misuse of species-area relationships in predicting climate driven extinction / John Harte and Justin Kitzes
First extinctions on land / Sarah K. McMenamin and Lee Hannah
Global warming and widespread coral mortality : evidence of first coral reef extinctions / Peter W. Glynn
Extinction risk at high latitudes / Eric Post and Jedediah Brodie
Extinctions in deep time / Peter J. Mayhew
Terrestrial ecosystem response to climate change during the Paleogene / William C. Clyde and Rebecca LeCain
Quaternary extinctions and their link to climate change / Barry W. Brook and Anthony D. Barnosky
Quaternary tropical plant extinction : a paleoecological perspective from the Neotropics / Mark B. Bush and Nicole A.S. Mosblech
Every species is an insect (or nearly so) : on insects, climate change, extinction, and the biological unknown / Robert R. Dunn and Matt Fitzpatrick
Extinction risk from climate change in tropical forests / Yadvinder Malhi
Coral reefs, climate change, and mass extinction / Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Extinction risk in a changing ocean / Benjamin S. Halpern and Carrie V. Kappel
Climate change and freshwater fauna extinction risk / N. LeRoy Poff, Julian D. Olden, and David L. Strayer
Climate change impacts on species interactions : assessing the threat of cascading extinctions / Lesley Hughes
Strategies for reducing extinction risk under a changing climate / Jessica J. Hellmann, Vicky J. Meretsky, and Jason S. McLachlan
Saving a million species / Lee Hannah.

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