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Climate change biology /

Climate Change Biology, Third Edition, addresses how climate change may affect life on the planet, particularly its impact on biology. Presented in three parts, it deals extensively with the physical evidence of climate change and modeling efforts to predict its future. Biological responses are then...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hannah, Lee Jay (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA, United States ; Cambridge, MA, United States ; Kidlington, Oxford, United Kingdom : Elsevier, Academic Press, an Imprint of Elsevier, [2022]
Edition:Third edition
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A new discipline : climate change biology
  • The climate system and climate change
  • Biochemical, cellular, and organismal responses to climate change
  • Ecological, evolutionary, and biogeographic implications of climate change
  • Climate change and the Earth system
  • Species range shifts
  • Phenology : changes in timing of biological events due to climate change
  • Ecosystem change
  • Past terrestrial response
  • Past marine ecosystem changes
  • Past freshwater changes
  • Extinctions
  • Insights from experimentation
  • Modeling species and ecosystem responses
  • Estimating extinction risk from climate change
  • Ecosystem services
  • Adaption of conservation strategies
  • Connectivity and landscape management
  • Species management
  • International climate policy - Mitigation : reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sink, and solutions
  • Assessing risks, designing solutions.