Climate Change, Ecology and Systematics

Herausgeber: Hodkinson, Trevor R; Parnell, John A N; Waldren, Stephen; Jones, Michael B

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Produktbeschreibung

A detailed examination of the ongoing impact of climate change on the ecology and diversity of life on earth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 197mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1331g
• ISBN-13: 9780521766098
• ISBN-10: 0521766095
• Artikelnr.: 31757422

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.