Climate Change Biology [Hardcover]

Climate change has moved from a contested phenomenon to the top of the agenda at global summits. Climate Change Biologyis the first major textbook to address the critical issue of how climate change may affect life on the planet, and particularly its impact on human populations. Presented in three parts, the first deals extensively with the physical evidence of climate change and various modelling efforts to predict its future. Biological responses are then addressed from the individual's physiology to populations and ecosystems, and further to considering adaptation and evolution. The final section examines the specific impact climate change may have on natural resources, particularly as these relate to human livelihood.

This volume will be a useful asset to the growing number of both undergraduate and graduate courses on impacts of climate change, as well as providing a succinct overview for researchers new to the field.Preface
Glossary

Part One. Preliminaries
1. Putting it in Perspective: the Paleorecord and Climate Reconstructions
2. Projecting Future Climates
3. Methods for Studying the Impacts of Climate Change

Part Two. Impacts from Physiology to Evolution
4. Physiological Responses
5. Population Responses in Time and Space
6. Community composition and dynamics
7. Ecosystem Responses
8. Evolutionary Responses to Climate Change

Part Three. Applications
9. Responses by Soil Organisms
10. The future of forest productivity
11. The future of agricultural production
12. Impacts on biodiversity

Part Four. Final Considerations
13. Multiple Stressors
14. The Limits of Science.

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