Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere

Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: Overview: What Is Climate Change Biology?
CHAPTER ONE: Changing the Biosphere
CHAPTER TWO: What Is Climate Change?
PART II: Changes Are We Observing?
CHAPTER THREE: Range and Abundance Changes
CASE STUDY 1: The Bering Sea and Climate Change
CHAPTER FOUR: Phenological Dynamics in Pollinator-Plant Associations Related to Climate Change
CHAPTER FIVE: Coral Reefs: Megadiversity Meets Unprecedented Environmental Change
CHAPTER SIX: Genetic Signatures of Historical and Contemporary Responses to Climate Change
CASE STUDY 2: Climate Change and Salmon Populations
CHAPTER SEVEN: Rapid Broad- Scale Ecosystem Changes and Their Consequences for Biodiversity
CASE STUDY 3: Rapidly Diverging Population Trends of Adélie Penguins Reveal Limits to a Flexible Species’ Adaptability to Anthropogenic Climate Change
PART III: WHAT DOES THE PAST TELL US?
CHAPTER EIGHT: A Paleoecological Perspective on Sudden Climate Change and Biodiversity Crises
CHAPTER NINE: Climate Change, Conservation, and the Metaphor of Deep Time
CASE STUDY 4: The Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Habitats and Species
CHAPTER TEN: Past Abrupt Changes in Climate and Terrestrial Ecosystems
CHAPTER ELEVEN: A Neotropical Perspective on Past Human-Climate Interactions and Biodiversity
PART IV: What Does the Future Hold?
CHAPTER TWELVE: Modeling Species and Vegetation Distribution under Climate Change
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Climate Change and Marine Biodiversity
CASE STUDY 5: Anticipating Climate-Driven Movement Routes
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Tropical Forests in a Changing Climate
CASE STUDY 6: Postponing the Amazon Tipping Point
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Temperate and Boreal Responses to Climate Change
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Biodiversity
CASE STUDY 7: Climate Change and Frost Effects in Rocky Mountain Plant Communities
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Climate Change: Final Arbiter of the Mass Extinction of Freshwater Fishes
CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Asymmetrical Impacts of Climate Change on Food Webs
CASE STUDY 8: Dynamic Spatial Management in an Australian Tuna Fishery
CHAPTER TWENTY: Invasive Species and Climate Change
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Climate Change and Disease
PART V: How Can Conservation and Policy Respond?
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Protected-Area Management and Climate Change
CASE STUDY 9: Extinction Risk from Climate Change
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Ecosystem-Based Adaptation
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Climate Change Mitigation Using Terrestrial Ecosystems: Options and Biodiversity Impacts
CASE STUDY 10: Connectivity by Design: A Multiobjective Ecological Network for Biodiversity That Is Robust to Land Use and Regional Climate Change
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Regreening the Emerald Planet: The Role of Ecosystem Restoration in Reducing Climate Change
CASE STUDY 11: Enlisting Ecological Interactions among Animals to Balance the Carbon Budget
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Increasing Public Awareness and Facilitating Behavior Change: Two Guiding Heuristics
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Climate Change, Food, and Biodiversity
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Saving Biodiversity in the Era of Human-Dominated Ecosystems
Contributors
Index