Saving a million species extinction risk from climate change
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Washington, DC
Island Press
2011
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| Schlagworte: |
Klimaänderung
> Umwelt
> Climatic changes
> Global warming
> Extinction (Biology)
> Environmental aspects
> SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General
> Anthropogener Einfluss
> Ökosystem
> Massensterben
> Umweltschutz
> Lebensraum
> Naturschutz
> Anthropogene Klimaänderung
> Erwärmung
> Biodiversität
> Artensterben
> Umweltveränderung
> Umweltschaden
> Aufsatzsammlung
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Tag hinzufügen | Beschreibung: | "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 attention of policy-makers, and provoked an unprecedented round of scientific critique. _ Saving a Million Species reconsiders the central question of that paper: How many species may perish as a result of climate change and associated threats? Leaders from a range of disciplines synthesize the literature, refine the original estimates, and elaborate the conservation and policy implications. The book: *examines the initial extinction risk estimates of the original paper, subsequent critiques, and the media *and policy impact of this unique study *presents evidence of extinctions from climate change from different time frames in the past *explores extinctions documented in the contemporary record *sets forth new risk estimates for future climate change *considers the conservation and policy implications of the estimates. Saving a Million Species offers a clear explanation of the science behind the headline-grabbing estimates for conservationists, researchers, teachers, students, and policy-makers. It is a critical resource for helping those working to conserve biodiversity take on the rapidly advancing and evolving global stressor of climate change-the most important issue in conservation biology today, and the one for which we are least prepared"-- Provided by publisher. -- "How many species may perish as a result of climate change and other associated threats? Saving a Million Species addresses this question. Leaders from relevant disciplines synthesize the literature, refine the original estimates, and elaborate the conservation and policy implications. The ultimate goal of this boo |
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| Beschreibung: | XII, 417 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9781597265690 978-1-597-26569-0 1597265691 1-597-26569-1 9781610911826 978-1-610-91182-6 1610911825 1-610-91182-5 |