Research Catalog

Title

Climate change and biodiversity / edited by Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah.

Publication

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lovejoy, Thomas E.
• Hannah, Lee Jay.

Description

xiii, 418 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Climatic changes
• Biodiversity

Note

• Originally published: 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Introduction -- 1. Biodiversity and Climate Change in Context / Lee Hannah, Thomas E. Lovejoy and Stephen H. Schneider -- 2. What Is Climate Change? / Thomas R. Karl and Kevin E. Trenberth -- Part II. Present Changes -- 3. Recent Climate Trends / Mike Hulme -- 4. Biotic Response: Range and Abundance Changes / Camille Parmesan -- Case Study: Detection at Multiple Levels: Euphydryas editha and Climate Change / Camille Parmesan -- 5. Present and Future Phenological Changes in Wild Plants and Animals / Terry L. Root and Lesley Hughes -- Case Study: Responses of Natural Communities to Climate Change in a Highland Tropical Forest / J. Alan Pounds, Michael P. L. Fogden and Karen L. Masters -- 6. Recent Evolutionary Effects of Climate Change / Chris D. Thomas -- Part III. Learning from the Past -- 7. A "Paleoperspective" on Climate Variability and Change / Jonathan Overpeck, Julia Cole and Patrick Bartlein -- 8. North Temperate Responses / Brian Huntley -- 9. Tropical Biotic Responses to Climate Change / Mark B. Bush and Henry Hooghiemstra -- Case Study: A Record of Change from the High Plain of Bogota / Mark B. Bush -- 10. Southern Temperate Ecosystem Responses / Vera Markgraf and Matt McGlone -- Case Study: Microrefugia and Macroecology / Matt McGlone and Jim Clark -- 11. Responses of Marine Species and Ecosystems to Past Climate Change / Kaustuv Roy and John M. Pandolfi -- 12. Genetic and Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change / Godfrey M. Hewitt and Richard A. Nichols -- Case Study: Phylogeny and Distribution of Fishes of the Characidium lauroi Group as Indicators of Climate Change in Southeastern Brazil / Paulo A. Buckup and Marcelo R. S. Melo -- Part IV. Understanding the Future -- 13. Climate Change Projections and Models / Sarah C. B. Raper and Filippo Giorgi -- 14. Modeling Distributional Shifts of Individual Species and Biomes / A. Townsend Peterson, Hanquin Tian, Enrique Martinez-Meyer, Jorge Soberon, Victor Sanchez-Cordero and Brian Huntley -- Case Study: Modeling Species Range Shifts in Two Biodiversity Hotspots / Guy F. Midgley and Dinah Millar -- 15. Dynamic Ecosystem and Earth System Models / Richard A. Betts and Herman H. Shugart -- Case Study: Migration of Vegetation Types in a Greenhouse World / Jay R. Malcolm, Adam Markham, Ronald P. Neilson and Michael Garaci -- 16. Climate Change and Marine Ecosystems / Ove Hoegh-Guldberg -- 17. Climate Change and Freshwater Ecosystems / J. David Allan, Margaret Palmer and N. Leroy Poff -- Case Study: Climate Change Impacts on Soil Biodiversity in a Grassland Ecosystem / Diana H. Wall -- 18. Synergistic Effects / Bert G. Drake, Lesley Hughes, E. A. Johnson, Brad A. Seibel, Mark A. Cochrane, Victoria J. Fabry, Daniel Rasse and Lee Hannah -- Case Study: Avian Malaria, Climate Change, and Native Birds of Hawaii / Dennis Lapointe, Tracy L. Benning and Carter Atkinson -- Part V. Conservation Responses -- 19. Conservation with a Changing Climate / Thomas E. Lovejoy -- 20. Designing Landscapes and Seascapes for Change / Lee Hannah and Lara Hansen -- Case Study: Integrating Climate Change into Canada's National Park System / Daniel Scott -- 21. Managing the Matrix / Gustavo A. B. Da Fonseca, Wes Sechrest and Judy Oglethorpe -- Case Study: Managing for Future Change on the Albemarle Sound / Sam H. Pearsall, III -- 22. Protected Areas Management in a Changing Climate / Lee Hannah and Rod Salm -- Part VI. Policy Responses -- 23. Emissions Reductions and Alternative Futures / Robert T. Watson -- 24. Global Greenhouse Gas Levels and the Future of Biodiversity / Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah.

ISBN

• 9780300119800 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0300119801 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC

• ocm78214506
• 78214506
• SCSB-5356922

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries