Saving a Million Species : Extinction Risk from Climate Change.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword, by Thomas E. Lovejoy -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Are a Million Species at Risk?, by Lee Hannah -- Chapter 2: First Estimates of Extinction Risk from Climate Change, by Chris D. Thomas -- Chapter 3: Climate Change, Extinction Risk, and Public Policy, by Jonathan Mawdsley, Guy Midgley, and Lee Hannah -- Part II: Refining First Estimates -- Chapter 4: Refining Risk Estimates Using Models, by Alison Cameron -- Chapter 5: The Use and Misuse of Species-Area Relationships in Predicting Climate-Driven Extinction, by John Harte and Justin Kitzes -- Part III: Current Extinctions -- Chapter 6: First Extinctions on Land, by Sarah K. McMenamin and Lee Hannah -- Chapter 7: Global Warming and Widespread Coral Mortality: Evidence of First Coral Reef Extinctions, by Peter W. Glynn -- Chapter 8: Extinction Risk at High Latitudes, by Eric Post and Jedediah Brodie -- Part IV: Evidence from the Past -- Chapter 9: Extinctions in Deep Time, by Peter J. Mayhew -- Chapter 10: Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to Climate Change during the Paleogene, by William C. Clyde and Rebecca LeCain -- Chapter 11: Quaternary Extinctions and Their Link to Climate Change, by Barry W. Brook and Anthony D. Barnosky -- Chapter 12: Quarternary Tropical Plant Extinction: A Paleoecological Perspective from the Neotropics, by 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 Chance, Extinction, and the Biological Unknown, by Robert R. Dunn and Matthew C. Fitzpatrick -- Chapter 14: Extinction Risk from Climate Change inTropical Forests, by Yadvinder Malhi -- Chapter 15: Coral Reefs, Climate Change, and Mass Extinction, by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg.

Chapter 16: Extinction Risk in a Changing Ocean, by Benjamin S. Halpern and Carrie V. Kappel -- Chapter 17: Climate Change and Freshwater Fauna Extinction Risk, by N. LeRoy Poff, Julian D. Olden, and David L. Strayer -- Chapter 18: Climate Change Impacts on Species Interactions: Assessing the Threat of Cascading Extinctions, by Lesley Hughes -- Part VI: Conservation Implications -- Chapter 19: Strategies for Reducing Extinction Risk undera Changing Climate, by Jessica J. Hellmann, Vicky J.Meretsky, and Jason S.McLachlan -- Chapter 20: Saving a Million Species, by Lee Hannah -- Contributors -- Index.

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