extinction risk from climate change Hannah, Lee Jay. ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. dcu Washington, D.C Island Press 2012 monographic eng

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xii, 417 p. : ill. "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"-- pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. Refining first estimates -- pt. III. Current extinctions -- pt. IV. Evidence from the past -- pt. V. Predicting future extinctions -- pt. VI. Conservation implications. edited by Lee Hannah. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Climatic changes Global warming Extinction (Biology) Environmental aspects QC902.9 .S28 2012eb 551.6 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10713316 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10713316 CaPaEBR 111004 ebr10713316