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Climate Change Biology

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ISBN-10: 0123741823

ISBN-13: 9780123741820

Edition: 2010

Authors: Lee Hannah

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Climate Change Biology is a new textbook which examines this emerging discipline of human-induced climate change and the resulting shifts in the distributions of species and the timing of biological events. The text focuses on understanding the impacts of human-induced climate change, but draws on multiple lines of evidence, including paleoecology, modelling and current observation. Climate Change Biology lays out the scope and depth of understanding of this new discipline in terms that are accessible to students, managers and professional biologists.This textbook features:Colorful illustrations and photographs that bring the field to life through visual impactLiterature boxes that…    
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Book details

List price: $41.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 11/17/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.45" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Lee Hannah is Senior Researcher in Climate Change Biology the Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans at Conservation International (CI). Tracking with his interest in the role of climate change in conservation planning and methods of corridor design, he heads CI's efforts to develop conservation responses to climate change. He works collaboratively with the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara to model climate impacts on species in California, and with the National Botanical Institute in Cape Town, South Africa to model biotic change resulting from global warming in biodiversity hot spots in that region. He has written on the global extent of wilderness and the role of communities…    

Introduction
The changing climate around us
What is climate change?
The role of climate in ecology and biogeography
Lessons from the Past
Extinctions and other effects in deep time
Terrestrial plant and animal responses
Marine species and ecosystem changes
Freshwater species and ecosystem changes
The Impacts of Human Induced Climate Change
Changes in species? ranges
Changes in timing and process: phenology
Ecosystem impacts
Looking to the Future
Models of climate and species response
Simulating ecosystem response: dynamic vegetation models
Predictions based on ecological theory
Estimating extinction risk from climate change
Implications for Conservation
Protected areas and connectivity
Marine protected areas
Conservation in farmlands and ranchlands
Finding Solutions: International Policy and Action
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sinks and solutions
Land use and biodiversity implications of energy options
Conclusion: Biodiversity in a greenhouse or a cool planet?