Saving a million species : extinction risk from climate change / edited by Lee Hannah.
"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 a...
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Washington, DC :
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.