Climate Change and Biodiversity

by Edited by Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah

• ISBN13: 9780300119800
• ISBN10: 0300119801
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-08-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Leading researchers discuss what is now known about the effects of climate change on the natural world. They examine recent trends in and projections about climate change; ways that particular organisms are responding to climate change; conservation challenges, including social and policy issues; and more. "This book will be a milestone in the emerging discipline of climate change biology. No issue is more important for the global environment; the impressive line-up of experts here gives it definitive coverage."Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University "A well-written treatise on the past, present, and future effects of climate change on plant and animal biodiversity. . . . It is destined to become a classic."Choice

Author Biography

THOMAS E. LOVEJOY is president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. LEE HANNAH is senior climate change biologist, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction
Biodiversity and Climate Change in Context	p. 3
What Is Climate Change?	p. 15
Present Changes
Recent Climate Trends	p. 31
Biotic Response: Range and Abundance Changes	p. 41
Case Study: Detection at Multiple Levels: Euphydryas editha and Climate Change	p. 56
Present and Future Phenological Changes in Wild Plants and Animals	p. 61
Case Study: Responses of Natural Communities to Climate Change in a Highland Tropical Forest	p. 70
Recent Evolutionary Effects of Climate Change	p. 75
Learning from the Past
A "Paleoperspective" on Climate Variability and Change	p. 91
North Temperate Responses	p. 109
Tropical Biotic Responses to Climate Change	p. 125
Case Study: A Record of Change from the High Plain of Bogota	p. 138
Southern Temperate Ecosystem Responses	p. 142
Case Study: Microrefugia and Macroecology	p. 157
Responses of Marine Species and Ecosystems to Past Climate Change	p. 160
Genetic and Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change	p. 176
Case Study: Phylogeny and Distribution of Fishes of the Characidium lauroi Group as Indicators of Climate Change in Southeastern Brazil	p. 193
Understanding the Future
Climate Change Projections and Models	p. 199
Modeling Distributional Shifts of Individual Species and Biomes	p. 211
Case Study: Modeling Species Range Shifts in Two Biodiversity Hotspots	p. 229
Dynamic Ecosystem and Earth System Models	p. 232
Case Study: Migration of Vegetation Types in a Greenhouse World	p. 252
Climate Change and Marine Ecosystems	p. 256
Climate Change and Freshwater Ecosystems	p. 274
Case Study: Climate Change Impacts on Soil Biodiversity in a Grassland Ecosystem	p. 291
Synergistic Effects	p. 296
Case Study: Avian Malaria, Climate Change, and Native Birds of Hawaii	p. 317
Conservation Responses
Conservation with a Changing Climate	p. 325
Designing Landscapes and Seascapes for Change	p. 329
Case Study: Integrating Climate Change into Canada's National Park System	p. 342
Managing the Matrix	p. 346
Case Study: Managing for Future Change on the Albemarle Sound	p. 359
Protected Areas Management in a Changing Climate	p. 363
Policy Responses
Emissions Reductions and Alternative Futures	p. 375
Global Greenhouse Gas Levels and the Future of Biodiversity	p. 387
List of Contributors	p. 397
Index	p. 401
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