Climate Change Biology, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Lee Hannah

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 433
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Climate Change Biology, 2e examines the evolving 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 by drawing on multiple lines of evidence, including paleoecology, modeling, and current observation. This revised and updated second edition emphasizes impacts of human adaptation to climate change on nature and greater emphasis on natural processes and cycles and specific elements. With four new chapters, an increased emphasis on tools for critical thinking, and a new glossary and acronym appendix, Climate Change Biology, 2e is the ideal overview of this field.

• Expanded treatment of processes and cycles
• Additional exercises and elements to encourage independent and critical thinking
• Increased on-line supplements including mapping activities and suggested labs and classroom activities.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Acknowledgments, Page xiii
Chapter 1 - A New Discipline: Climate Change Biology, Pages 3-11
Chapter 2 - The Climate System and Climate Change, Pages 13-53
Chapter 3 - Species Range Shifts, Pages 57-81
Chapter 4 - Phenology: Changes in Timing of Biological Events Due to Climate Change, Pages 83-102
Chapter 5 - Ecosystem Change, Pages 103-133
Chapter 6 - Past Terrestrial Response, Pages 137-161
Chapter 7 - Past Marine Ecosystem Changes, Pages 163-177
Chapter 8 - Past Freshwater Changes, Pages 179-194
Chapter 9 - Extinctions, Pages 195-210
Chapter 10 - Insights from Experimentation, Pages 213-235
Chapter 11 - Modeling Species and Ecosystem Response, Pages 237-262
Chapter 12 - Estimating Extinction Risk from Climate Change, Pages 263-279
Chapter 13 - Ecosystem Services, Pages 281-300
Chapter 14 - Adaptation of Conservation Strategies, Pages 303-325
Chapter 15 - Connectivity and Landscape Management, Pages 327-343
Chapter 16 - Species Management, Pages 345-361
Chapter 17 - International Climate Policy, Pages 365-377
Chapter 18 - Mitigation: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Sinks, and Solutions, Pages 379-402
Chapter 19 - Carbon Sinks and Sources, Pages 403-422
Chapter 20 - Assessing Risks, Designing Solutions, Pages 423-431
References, Pages 433-444
Index, Pages 445-455