Climate Change, Ecology and Systematics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hodkinson, Trevor R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Climate change has shaped life in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Understanding the interactions between climate and biodiversity is a complex challenge to science. With contributions from 60 key researchers, this book examines the ongoing impact of climate change on the ecology and diversity of life on earth. It discusses the latest research within the fields of ecology and systematics, highlighting the increasing integration of their approaches and methods. Topics covered include the influence of climate change on evolutionary and ecological processes such as adaptation, migration, speciation and extinction, and the role of these processes in determining the diversity and biogeographic distribution of species and their populations. This book ultimately illustrates the necessity for global conservation actions to mitigate the effects of climate change in a world that is already undergoing a biodiversity crisis of unprecedented scale.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139065214
• Artikelnr.: 38279290

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Integrating ecology and systematics in climate
change research T. R. Hodkinson; 2. Climate modelling and deep time climate
change R. Caballero and P. Lynch; 3. The perils of addressing long term
challenges in a short term world: making descriptive taxonomy predictive R.
M. Bateman; Part II. Adaptation, Speciation and Extinction: 4. Global
climate and extinction: evidence from the fossil record P. J. Mayhew; 5.
Long term fluctuations in atmospheric CO2 concentration influence plant
speciation rate J. C. McElwain, K. K. Willis and K. J. Niklas; 6. Wood
anatomy and climate change P. Baas and E. A. Wheeler; 7. Savanna biome
evolution, climate change and the ecological expansion of C4 grasses Y.
Bouchenak-Khelladi and T. R. Hodkinson; 8. Climate warming results in
phenotypic and evolutionary changes in spring events: a mini review A.
Donnelly, A. Caffarra, E. Diskin, C. T. Kelleher, A. Pletsers, H. Proctor,
R. Stirnemann, M. B. Jones, J. O'Halloran, B. F. O'Neill, J. Peñuelas and
T. Sparks; 9. Terrestrial green algae: systematics, biogeography and
expected responses to climate change F. Rindi; Part III. Biogeography,
Migration and Ecological Niche Modelling: 10. Biodiversity informatics for
climate change studies A. Culham and C. Yesson; 11. Climate envelope models
in systematics and evolutionary research: theory and practice D. Rödder, S.
Schmidtlein, S. Schick and S. Lötters; 12. Biogeography of cyclamen: an
application of phyloclimatic modelling C. Yesson and A. Culham; 13.
Cenozoic climate changes and the demise of Tethyan laurel forests: lessons
for the future from an integrative reconstruction of the past F.
Rodríguez-Sánchez and J. Arroyo; 14. The impact of climate change on the
origin and future of East African rain forest trees L. W. Chatrou, J. J.
Wieringa and T. L. P. Couvreur; 15. Hybridisation, introgression and
climate change: a case study for the tree genus Fraxinus (Oleaceae) M.
Thomasset, J. F. Fernández-Manjarrés, G. C. Douglas, N. Frascaria-Lacoste
and T. R. Hodkinson; Part IV. Conservation: 16. Assessing the effectiveness
of a protected area network in the face of climatic change B. Huntley, D.
G. Hole and S. G. Willis; 17. Documenting plant species in a changing
climate: a case study from Arabia M. Hall and A. G. Miller; 18. A critical
appraisal of the meaning and diagnosability of cryptic evolutionary
diversity, and its implications for conservation in the face of climate
change J. Bernardo; 19. Climate change and Cyperaceae D. A. Simpson, C.
Yesson, A. Culham, C. A. Couch and A. M. Muasya; 20. An interdisciplinary
review of climate change trends and uncertainties: lichen biodiversity,
arctic alpine ecosystems and habitat loss C. J. Ellis and R. Yahr; 21.
Climate change and oceanic mountain vegetation: a case study of the montane
heath and associated plant communities in western Irish mountains R. L.
Hodd and M. J. Sheehy Skeffington.