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Saving a Million Species : Extinction Risk from Climate Change.
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 attenti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Saving a Million Species; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PART I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Are a Million Species at Risk?; Science behind the Hype; Why ShouldWe Care?; Right for theWrong Reasons?; How CanWe Help?; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: First Estimates of Extinction Risk from Climate Change; The General Approach; The Basic Results; The Initial Response in the Media and Journals; The Major Concerns and Subsequent Estimates of Extinction; Where Is the Risk Greatest?; TheWay Forward; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; REFERENCES; Chapter 3: Climate Change, Extinction Risk, and Public Policy; 2004 Policy Debates.
- UNFCCC and "Dangerous Interference"Climate Change and Threatened Species; Extinction Risk and National Policy Debates; Extinction Risk and NGOs; Conclusions; REFERENCES; PART II: Refining First Estimates; Chapter 4: Refining Risk Estimates UsingModels; Advances in Climate Change Projections; Advances in SDM; Multispecies SDM Studies; Dispersal Assumptions; Model Validation; Treatment of Uncertainty; Extinction Risk Estimation; Comparison of Original and More Recent Extinction Risk Estimates; IUCN Red List Criteria; Comparisons with Non-SDM Methods.
- Synergies between Climate Change and Habitat LossConclusions; REFERENCES; Chapter 5: The Use and Misuse of Species-Area Relationships in Predicting Climate-Driven Extinction; Use of SARs to Estimate Climate-Driven Extinction; General Considerations; Specific Critiques; dispersal is poorly understood.; power-law sars are rare to nonexistent over large spatial intervals.; species richness depends on the shape, as well as size, of habitat patches.; populations may be more appropriate units for extinction estimation than species.; knowledge of species turnover is needed in fragmented habitats.
- "Minimum viable population" effects are ignored.web cascades may result in larger losses.; New Directions; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; REFERENCES; PART III: Current Extinctions; Chapter 6: First Extinctions on Land; Catastrophe in Monteverde; An Amphibian Pandemic; Chytrid-Climate Controversy; Population-Level Extinctions; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; REFERENCES; Chapter 7: GlobalWarming andWidespread Coral Mortality: Evidence of First Coral Reef Extinctions; First Apparent Extinction and Rediscovery; Observed Declines in Other Corals and Associated Reef Species; Functional Extinctions.
- What Is at StakeProjected Trends, Hope, and Despair; Resistance and Resilience in Reef-Building Corals; Refugia and Recovery; Coral Community Structure and Reef Building; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; REFERENCES; Chapter 8: Extinction Risk at High Latitudes; Arctic Species; Polar Bear; Walrus; Narwhal; Ivory Gull; Spectacled Eider; Ringed Seal; Arctic Fox; Antarctic Species; Conclusions; REFERENCES; PART IV: Evidence from the Past; Chapter 9: Extinctions in Deep Time; Nature of the Record; Variation in Extinction Rates; Possible Causes; Global Climate and Its Effects on Extinction.