Saving a Million Species Extinction Risk from Climate Change
Saving a Million Species examines the question, how many species will perish as a result of climate change and associated threats? Written by leaders from a range of disciplines, it offers detailed, clear explanations that synthesize the literature and elaborate on the conservation and policy implic...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
2012, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Are a Million Species at Risk?
- 2. First Estimates of Extinction Risk from Climate Change
- 3. Climate Change, Extinction Risk, and Public Policy
- 4. Refining Risk Estimates Using Models
- 5. The Use and Misuse of Species-Area Relationships in Predicting Climate-Driven Extinction
- 6. First Extinctions on Land
- 7. Global Warming and Widespread Coral Mortality: Evidence of First Coral Reef Extinctions
- 8. Extinction Risk at High Latitudes
- 9. Extinctions in Deep Time
- 10. Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to Climate Change during the Paleogene
- 11. Quaternary Extinctions and Their Link to Climate Change
- 12. Quaternary Tropical Plant Extinction: A Paleoecological Perspective from the Neotropics
- 13. Every Species Is an Insect (or Nearly So): On Insects, Climate Change, Extinction, and the Biological Unknown
- 14. Extinction Risk from Climate Change in Tropical Forests
- 15. Coral Reefs, Climate Change, and Mass Extinction
- 16. Extinction Risk in a Changing Ocean
- 17. Climate Change and Freshwater Fauna Extinction Risk
- 18. Climate Change Impacts on Species Interactions: Assessing the Threat of Cascading Extinctions
- 19. Strategies for Reducing Extinction Risk under a Changing Climate
- 20. Saving a Million Species