TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hannah,Lee Jay
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Saving a million species: extinction risk from climate change 
AV  - QC902.9 .S28 2012eb
U1  - 551.6 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Island Press
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Global warming
KW  - Extinction (Biology)
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "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"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10713316
ER  -