| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 524 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
The Systematics Association special volume ; 78
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Systematics Association special volume ; no. 78.
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| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Introduction: 1. Integrating ecology and systematics in climate change research -- 2. Climate modelling and deep time climate change -- 3. The perils of addressing long term challenges in a short term world: making descriptive taxonomy predictive -- Part II. Adaptation, Speciation and Extinction: 4. Global climate and extinction: evidence from the fossil record -- 5. Long term fluctuations in atmospheric CO₂ concentration influence plant speciation rate -- 6. Wood anatomy and climate change -- 7. Savanna biome evolution, climate change and the ecological expansion of C4 grasses -- 8. Climate warming results in phenotypic and evolutionary changes in spring events: a mini review -- 9. Terrestrial green algae: systematics, biogeography and expected responses to climate change -- Part III. Biogeography, Migration and Ecological Niche Modelling: 10. Biodiversity informatics for climate change studies -- 11. Climate envelope models in systematics and evolutionary research: theory and practice -- 12. Biogeography of cyclamen: an application of phyloclimatic modelling -- 13. Cenozoic climate changes and the demise of Tethyan laurel forests: lessons for the future from an integrative reconstruction of the past -- 14. The impact of climate change on the origin and future of East African rain forest trees -- 15. Hybridisation, introgression and climate change: a case study for the tree genus Fraxinus (Oleaceae) -- Part IV. Conservation: 16. Assessing the effectiveness of a protected area network in the face of climatic change -- 17. Documenting plant species in a changing climate: a case study from Arabia-- 18. A critical appraisal of the meaning and diagnosability of cryptic evolutionary diversity, and its implications for conservation in the face of climate change -- 19. Climate change and Cyperaceae -- 20. An interdisciplinary review of climate change trends and uncertainties: lichen biodiversity, arctic alpine ecosystems and habitat loss -- 21. Climate change and oceanic mountain vegetation: a case study of the montane heath and associated plant communities in western Irish mountains. |
| Subject |
Climatic changes.
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Climatic changes. |
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Climatology -- Mathematical models.
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Climatology -- Mathematical models. |
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Ecology -- Environmental aspects.
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Ecology -- Environmental aspects. |
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Ecology. |
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Biology -- Classification.
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Biology -- Classification. |
| Added Author |
Hodkinson, Trevor R.
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| ISBN |
9780521766098 hardback |
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0521766095 hardback |
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