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Foreword | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Are a Million Species at Risk? | p. 3 |
First Estimates of Extinction Risk from Climate Change | p. 11 |
Climate Change, Extinction Risk, and Public Policy | p. 29 |
Refining First Estimates | p. 39 |
Refining Risk Estimates Using Models | p. 41 |
The Use and Misuse of Species-Area Relationships in Predicting Climate-Driven Extinction | p. 73 |
Current Extinctions | p. 87 |
First Extinctions on Land | p. 89 |
Global Warming and Widespread Coral Mortality: Evidence of First Coral Reef Extinctions | p. 103 |
Extinction Risk at High Latitudes | p. 121 |
Evidence from the Past | p. 139 |
Extinctions in Deep Time | p. 141 |
Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to Climate Change during the Paleogene | p. 157 |
Quaternary Extinctions and Their Link to Climate Change | p. 179 |
Quaternary Tropical Plant Extinction: A Paleoecological Perspective from the Neotropics | p. 199 |
Predicting Future Extinctions | p. 215 |
Every Species Is an Insect (or Nearly So): On Insects, Climate Change, Extinction, and the Biological Unknown | p. 217 |
Extinction Risk from Climate Change in Tropical Forests | p. 239 |
Coral Reefs, Climate Change, and Mass Extinction | p. 261 |
Extinction Risk in a Changing Ocean | p. 285 |
Climate Change and Freshwarer Fauna Extinction Risk | p. 309 |
Climate Change Impacts on Species Interactions: Assessing the Threat of Cascading Extinctions | p. 337 |
Conservation Implications | p. 361 |
Strategies for Reducing Extinction Risk under a Changing Climate | p. 363 |
Saving a Million Species | p. 389 |
Contributors | p. 395 |
Index | p. 407 |
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