Saving a Million Species

Extinction Risk from Climate Change

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Biology
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Author: Lee Hannah ISBN: 9781610911825
Publisher: Island Press Publication: June 22, 2012
Imprint: Island Press Language: English
Author: Lee Hannah
ISBN: 9781610911825
Publisher: Island Press
Publication: June 22, 2012
Imprint: Island Press
Language: English

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, subsequcritiques, and the media and policy impact of this unique studypresents evidence of extinctions from climate change from differtime frames in the pastexplores extinctions documented in the contemporary recordsets forth new risk estimates for future climate changeconsiders 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 mimportant issue in conservation biology today, and the one for which we are least prepared.

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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, subsequcritiques, and the media and policy impact of this unique studypresents evidence of extinctions from climate change from differtime frames in the pastexplores extinctions documented in the contemporary recordsets forth new risk estimates for future climate changeconsiders 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 mimportant issue in conservation biology today, and the one for which we are least prepared.

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