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" Saving a million species "
edited by Lee Hannah.
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BL
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607270
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Saving a million species : extinction risk from climate change /\ edited by Lee Hannah.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, D.C. :: Island Press,, 2012.
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xii, 417 p. :: ill.
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9781597265690 (cloth)
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1597265691 (cloth)
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9781597265706 (paper)
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1597265705 (paper)
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9781610911825 (e-book)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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, 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"--
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Climatic changes.
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Global warming.
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Extinction (Biology)-- Environmental aspects.
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551.6
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QC902.9.S28 2012eb
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Hannah, Lee Jay.
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ebrary, Inc.
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