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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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 417 p. :; ill. |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Saving a million species |h [electronic resource] : |b extinction risk from climate change / |c edited by Lee Hannah. |
| 260 | |a Washington, D.C. : |b Island Press, |c 2012. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 417 p. : |b ill. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Climatic changes. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Global warming. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Extinction (Biology) |x Environmental aspects. | |
| 655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Hannah, Lee Jay. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a ProQuest (Firm) | |
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