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Saving a Million Species

Extinction Risk from Climate Change

Saving a Million Species
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Edited by Lee Hannah

432 pages | 6 x 9

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.

“The possibility of a calamitous loss of biological diversity arising from synergism of human actions and climate change looms larger at every evaluation. Lee Hannah and colleagues have done a brilliant job of assembling and presenting the critical information on this central issue. The resultant book provides a rich and timely briefing for breadth and depth of this topic.”
H. H. "Hank" Shugart, W. W. Corcoran Professor, University of Virginia


“Saving a Million Species provides a much-needed review of extinction risk from climate change, penned by the best experts in the field. The early extinction-risk numbers associated with climate change were big and worrisome but didn’t include marine or freshwater environments. This book addresses those neglected systems and argues that action is needed now to prevent further losses.  Extinction risk is the most critical area of research in climate change biology.”
Russell A. Mettermeier, President, Conservation International


"This is a very readable book on an intriguing subject: climate change and species extinction processes."
Choice


"This book highlights a very important issue of global concern and anybody who can read it should do so. Ultimately, it aims to stimulate discussion and directed research..., although research should not be a substitute for action.... The book presents evidence from both the aquatic and terrestrial realms that it is no longer a question of whether or not we are in the midst of a mass extinction event, we are, the question now is, what can we do about it?"
British Journal of Entomology and Natural History


"This book is a tour de force overall and an excellent summary of the issues relating to extinction risk from climate change. ... The book’s greatest strength comes from its collection of ideas, perspectives, and reviews on this complex topic, resulting in the whole being much greater than the sum of its parts. Saving a Million Species provides a single reading source for anyone who wants to quickly get up to speed regarding the risks that changes in climate pose for species extinction. ... Edited volumes this useful are few and far between. I recommend Saving a Million Species to anyone interested in the conservation of biological diversity."
BioScience


Foreword by 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 FROM THE 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

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