Climate Change Biology
- 3rd Edition - May 11, 2021
- Latest edition
- Author: Lee Hannah
- Language: English
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 extensive… Read more
Description
Description
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 addressed, from individual physiology, to populations and ecosystems, adaptation and evolution. The final section examines the specific impact climate change may have on natural resources, particularly relating to human livelihood. This book will be a useful asset to the growing number of both undergraduate and graduate courses on climate change.
All sections are updated using the more than 5,000 research papers that have appeared on the topic since the publication of the second edition. Sections on the combined effects of ocean acidification and climate change are especially strengthened, with over six new case studies and end of chapter questions in each chapter.
Key features
Key features
- Covers the evolving discipline of human-induced climate change and the resulting shifts in the distributions of species and timing of biological events
- Offers positive solutions and policy relevant insights on how extinctions can be avoided
- Includes stunning full-color illustrations from original research
Readership
Readership
Undergraduate climate change biology courses, undergraduate ecology courses as a supplemental text, graduate climate change biology courses, AP or upper level high school environmental science courses. Professionals who need to understand and manage the effects of climate change on nature and natural resources including parks managers, forest managers, water resources managers, private land managers
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. A New Discipline: Climate Change Biology
2. The Climate System and Climate Change
3. The Impact of Human Induced Climate Change
4. Phenology: Changes in Timing of Biological Events due to Climate Change
5. Ecosystem Change
6. Past Terrestrial Response
7. Past Marine Ecosystem Changes
8. Past Freshwater Changes
9. Extinctions
10. Insights from Experimentation
11. Modeling Species and Ecosystem Responses
12. Estimating Extinction Risk from Climate Change
13. Ecosystem Services
14. Adaption of Conservation Strategies
15. Connectivity and Landscape Management
16. Species Management
17. International Climate Policy
18. Mitigation
19. Carbon Sinks and Sources
20. Assessing Risks, Designing Solutions
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 3
- Latest edition
- Published: May 11, 2021
- Language: English
About the author
About the author
LH