Climate Change Biology
- 3rd Edition - May 11, 2021
- Author: Lee Hannah
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 9 7 5 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 9 7 6 - 3
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
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Request a sales quoteClimate 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.
- 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
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
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Section 1. Introduction
- Chapter 1. A New Discipline: Climate Change Biology
- A Greenhouse Planet
- Boundaries of Life
- Shifting Interactions
- Chemistry of Change
- Linkages Back to Climate
- Climate Change Biology
- Chapter 2. The Climate System and Climate Change
- The Climate System
- Evolution of the Earth’s Climate
- Natural Drivers of Change
- Major Features of Present Climate
- Stable States of the System
- Human-Driven Change: Rising CO2
- Rapid Climate Change
- The Velocity of Climate Change
- Modeling the Climate System
- Regional Climate Models
- Commonly Used GCMs
- Emissions Pathways
- GCM Outputs
- Biological Assessments with Downscaled Data
- Section 2. Biological Foundations of Climate Change Response
- Chapter 3. Biochemical, Cellular, and Organismal Responses to Climate Change
- Temperature Effects on Biochemistry and Cells
- Cellular CO2 Effects
- Organism-Level Responses in Animals
- Chapter 4. Ecological, Evolutionary, and Biogeographic Implications of Climate Change
- Niche
- Niche Filling in Terrestrial and Marine Organisms
- Niche Breadth and Climate Vulnerability
- Population Growth in Response to Climate
- Evolutionary Responses: Adapt, Move, or Die
- Conservation Implications
- Chapter 5. Climate Change and the Earth System
- The Earth System
- Climate Change and Nutrient Cycles
- The Carbon Cycle
- Human Influence on the Carbon Cycle
- Planetary Boundaries
- Section 3. Impacts of Climate Change on Nature
- Chapter 6. Species Range Shifts
- First Sign of Change: Coral Bleaching
- First Changes on Land
- Mounting Evidence of Range Shifts
- Patterns within the Patterns
- Extinctions
- Freshwater Changes
- Pests and Pathogens
- Chapter 7. Phenology: Changes in Timing of Biological Events Due to Climate Change
- Arrival of Spring
- Freshwater Systems
- Spring Ahead, Fall Behind
- Tropical Forest Phenology
- Marine Systems
- Mechanisms: Temperature and Photoperiod
- Life-Cycles of Insect Herbivores
- Timing Mismatches Between Species
- Chapter 8. Ecosystem Change
- Tropical Ecosystem Changes
- Cloud Forests
- Temperate Ecosystem Change
- High Mountain Ecosystems
- Glacier and Snowpack-Dependent Ecosystems
- Polar and Marine Systems
- Polar Food Webs: Changes in the Southern Ocean
- Tropical Marine Systems
- Pelagic Marine Systems
- Ocean Acidification
- Ecosystem Feedbacks to Climate System
- Section 4. Lessons from the Past
- Chapter 9. Past Terrestrial Response
- Scope of Change
- The Earth Moves
- Climate Runs Through It
- Fast and Far: The Record of the Ice Ages
- Ice Racing in North America and Europe
- Out of Land: The Southern Temperate Response
- North Meets South
- Rapid Change: The Younger Dryas
- Tropical Responses
- Milankovitch Forcing in the Biological Record
- Lessons of Past Change
- Chapter 10. Past Marine Ecosystem Changes
- Effects of Temperature Change
- Effects of Sea-Level Change
- Changes in Ocean Circulation
- Changes in Ocean Chemistry
- Chapter 11. Past Freshwater Changes
- Lakes as Windows to Past Climate
- Types of Freshwater Alteration with Climate
- Freshwater Biotas, Habitats, and Food Chains
- Press and Pulse-driven change: 2 Lakes
- Deep Time: Pace of Evolution and Species Accumulation
- Recent-Time (Tertiary and Pleistocene) Records of Change
- Fast Forward
- Chapter 12. Extinctions
- The Five Major Mass Extinctions
- Causes of Extinction Events
- Climate as the Common Factor in Major Extinctions
- Impacts and Climate
- Does Climate Change Always Cause Extinction?
- Climate and Extinctions in Deep Time
- The Past 100 Million Years
- The Past 2 Million Years: Extinction at the Dawn of the Ice Ages and the Pleistocene Extinctions
- The Missing Ice Age Extinctions
- Patterns in the Losses
- Section 5. Looking to the Future
- Chapter 13. Insights from Experimentation
- Theory
- Laboratory and Greenhouse Experiments
- Field Experiments
- Results of Whole-Vegetation Experiments
- Results of Field CO2 Experiments
- Freshwater Experiments
- Arctic Experiments
- Chapter 14. Modeling Species and Ecosystem Response
- Types of Models
- Dynamic Global Vegetation Models
- Species Distribution Models
- Gap Models
- Modeling Aquatic Systems
- Earth System Models
- Chapter 15. Estimating Extinction Risk from Climate Change
- Evidence from the Past
- Estimates from Species Distribution Modeling
- Species–Area Relationship
- A Question of Dispersal
- The Problem with Endemics
- Checking the Estimates
- Not Just about Polar Bears Anymore
- Are a Million Species at Risk?
- Why the Future May Not Be Like the Past
- Chapter 16. Ecosystem Services
- Food Provision—Marine Fisheries
- Water Provisioning
- Carbon Sequestration
- Fire
- Tourism
- Ecosystem-Based Adaptation
- Coastal Protection
- Water Supply
- Food Production
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Section 6. Implications for Conservation
- Chapter 17. Adaptation of Conservation Strategies
- Early Concepts of Protected Areas and Climate Change
- Protected Area Planning
- Planning for Persistence
- Resistance and Resilience
- Protected-Area Management
- Marine Protected Areas
- Protected Areas for Climate Change
- Chapter 18. Connectivity and Landscape Management
- Area-Demanding Species
- Migratory Species
- Species Range Shifts
- Planning for Connectivity
- Managing Connectivity in Human-Dominated Landscapes
- Changing Disturbance Regimes
- Planning for Climate “Blowback”
- Regional Coordination
- Monitoring
- Chapter 19. Species Management
- Threatened Species
- Climate Change Impacts on Threatened Species
- Species Threatened by Climate Change
- Assessing Species Threatened by Climate Change
- An Iconic Example
- Managing Species Threatened by Climate Change
- Resources for the Job
- Section 7. Finding solutions: International Policy and Action
- Chapter 20. International Climate Policy
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- The Paris Agreement
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Carbon Markets
- Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation
- Adaptation
- Why Is It Taking so Long?
- Chapter 21. Mitigation: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Sinks, and Solutions
- Stabilizing Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
- Practical Steps for the Next 50 years
- Energy Efficiency
- Renewable Energy Sources
- Natural Climate Solutions
- Nuclear Power
- The End of Oil
- Clean Coal?
- Tar Sands, Oil Shales, and Fracking
- Getting CO2 Back
- Carbon Capture and Storage
- Getting to Net Zero
- Extinction Risk from Climate Change Solutions
- Land-Use Requirements of Alternate Energy
- Getting to 1.5° or 2.0°
- BECCS
- Geoengineering
- Short-Term Wedges and Long-Term Pathways
- Chapter 22. Assessing Risks, Designing Solutions
- Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation
- The Assessment Process
- Domain and Grain
- Biological Assessment
- Stand-Alone Biological Assessment
- Design of Adaptation Solutions
- Two Examples of Adaptation Solutions
- And Do It Again
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 528
- Language: English
- Edition: 3
- Published: May 11, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081029756
- eBook ISBN: 9780081029763
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Lee Hannah
Lee Hannah is Senior Researcher in Climate Change Biology at the Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans at Conservation International (CI). Tracking with his interest in the role of climate change in conservation planning and methods of corridor design, he heads CI’s efforts to develop conservation responses to climate change. He works collaboratively with the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara to model climate impacts on species in California, and with the National Botanical Institute in Cape Town, South Africa to model biotic change resulting from global warming in biodiversity hot spots in that region. He has written on the global extent of wilderness and the role of communities in the management of protected areas.
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Senior Researche, Climate Change Biology, Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans, Conservation International (CI)Read Climate Change Biology on ScienceDirect