Saving a Million Species

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.

Autorentext

Lee Hannah is Senior Researcher in Climate Change Biology at Conservation International and adjunct professor in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Foreword

Thomas E. Lovejoy

PART I. INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. Are a Million Species at Risk?

Lee Hannah

Chapter 2. First Estimates of Extinction Risk from Climate Change

Chris D. Thomas

Chapter 3. Climate Change, Extinction Risk, and Public Policy

Jonathan Mawdsley, Guy Midgley, and Lee Hannah

PART II. REFINING FIRST ESTIMATES

Chapter 4. Refining Risk Estimates Using Models

Alison Cameron

Chapter 5. The Use and Misuse of Species-Area Relationships in Predicting Climate-Driven Extinction

John Harte and Justin Kitzes

PART III. CURRENT EXTINCTIONS

Chapter 6. First Extinctions on Land

Sarah K. McMenamin and Lee Hannah

Chapter 7. Global Warming and Widespread Coral Mortality: Evidence of First Coral Reef Extinctions

Peter W. Glynn

Chapter 8. Extinction Risk at High Latitudes

Eric Post and Jedediah Brodie

PART IV. EVIDENCE FROMTHE PAST

Chapter 9. Extinctions in Deep Time

Peter J. Mayhew

Chapter 10. Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to Climate Change during the Paleogene

William C. Clyde and Rebecca LeCain

Chapter 11. Quaternary Extinctions and Their Link to Climate Change

Barry W. Brook and Anthony D. Barnosky

Chapter 12. Quaternary Tropical Plant Extinction: A Paleoecological Perspective from the Neotropics

Mark B. Bush and Nicole A. S. Mosblech

PART V. PREDICTING FUTURE EXTINCTIONS

Chapter 13. Every Species Is an Insect (or Nearly So): On Insects, Climate Change, Extinction, and the Biological Unknown

Robert R. Dunn and Matthew C. Fitzpatrick

Chapter 14. Extinction Risk from Climate Change in Tropical Forests

Yadvinder Malhi

Chapter 15. Coral Reefs, Climate Change, and Mass Extinction

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Chapter 16. Extinction Risk in a Changing Ocean

Benjamin S. Halpern and Carrie V. Kappel

Chapter 17. Climate Change and Freshwater Fauna Extinction Risk

N. LeRoy Poff, Julian D. Olden, and David L. Strayer

Chapter 18. Climate Change Impacts on Species Interactions: Assessing the Threat of Cascading Extinctions

Lesley Hughes

PART VI. CONSERVATION IMPLICATIONS

Chapter 19. Strategies for Reducing Extinction Risk under a Changing Climate

Jessica J. Hellmann, Vicky J. Meretsky, and Jason S. McLachlan

Chapter 20. Saving a Million Species

Lee Hannah

Contributors

Index.