Saving a million species [[electronic resource] ] : extinction risk from climate change / / edited by Lee Hannah

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Island Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2012.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Disciplina: 551.6
• Soggetto topico: Climatic changes; Global warming; Extinction (Biology) - Environmental aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HannahLee Jay
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. Refining first estimates -- pt. III. Current extinctions -- pt. IV. Evidence from the past -- pt. V. Predicting future extinctions -- pt. VI. Conservation implications.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Saving a million species
• ISBN: 1-59726-570-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461499603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II