Climate Change and Biodiversity

Thomas E. Lovejoy, Lee Hannah (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

440 Seiten

2006
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-11980-0 (ISBN)

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Discusses what is now known about the effects of climate change on the natural world. This book examines trends in and projections about climate change; ways that particular organisms are responding to climate change; conservation challenges, including social and policy issues; and more.

Leading researchers discuss what is now known about the effects of climate change on the natural world. They examine recent trends in and projections about climate change; ways that particular organisms are responding to climate change; conservation challenges, including social and policy issues; and more.

"This book will be a milestone in the emerging discipline of climate change biology. No issue is more important for the global environment; the impressive line-up of experts here gives it definitive coverage."—Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University

"A well-written treatise on the past, present, and future effects of climate change on plant and animal biodiversity. . . . It is destined to become a classic."—Choice

Thomas E. Lovejoy is president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. He coedited the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed Global Warming and Biological Diversity, published in 1992. Lee Hannah is senior climate change biologist, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.2006
Zusatzinfo	107 b-w + 11 color illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	885 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10	0-300-11980-1 / 0300119801
ISBN-13	978-0-300-11980-0 / 9780300119800
Zustand	Neuware