Saving a Million Species

Foreword \ Thomas E. Lovejoy
 
PART I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Are a Million Species at Risk? \ Lee Hannah
Chapter 2. First Estimates of Extinction Risk from Climate Change \ Chris D. Thomas
Chapter 3. Climate Change, Extinction Risk, and Public Policy \ Jonathan Mawdsley, Guy Midgley and Lee Hannah
 
PART II. Refining First Estimates
Chapter 4. Refining Risk Estimates Using Models \ Alison Cameron
Chapter 5. The Use and Misuse of Species-Area Relationships in Predicting Climate-Driven Extinction \ John Harte and Justin Kitzes
 
PART III. Current Extinctions
Chapter 6. First Extinctions on Land \ Sarah K. McMenamin and Lee Hannah
Chapter 7. Global Warming and Widespread Coral Mortality: Evidence of First Coral Reef Extinctions \ Peter W. Glynn
Chapter 8. Extinction Risk at High Latitudes \  Eric Post and Jedediah Brodie
 
PART IV. Evidence from the Past
Chapter 9. Extinctions in Deep Time \ Peter J. Mayhew
Chapter 10. Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to Climate Change during the Paleogene \ William C. Clyde and Rebecca LeCain
Chapter 11. Quaternary Extinctions and Their Link to Climate Change \ Barry W. Brook and Anthony D. Barnosky
Chapter 12. Quaternary Tropical Plant Extinction: A Paleoecological Perspective from the Neotropics \ Mark B. Bush and Nicole A. S. Mosblech
 
PART V. Predicting Future Extinctions
Chapter 13. Every Species Is an Insect (or Nearly So): On Insects, Climate Change, Extinction, and the Biological Unknown \ Robert R. Dunn and Matthew C. Fitzpatrick
Chapter 14. Extinction Risk from Climate Change in Tropical Forests \ Yadvinder Malhi
Chapter 15. Coral Reefs, Climate Change, and Mass Extinction \ Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Chapter 16. Extinction Risk in a Changing Ocean \ Benjamin S. Halpern and Carrie V. Kappel
Chapter 17. Climate Change and Freshwater Fauna Extinction Risk \ N. LeRoy Poff, Julian D. Olden, and David L. Strayer
Chapter 18. Climate Change Impacts on Species Interactions: Assessing the Threat of Cascading Extinctions \  Lesley Hughes
 
PART VI. Conservation Implications
Chapter 19. Strategies for Reducing Extinction Risk under a Changing Climate \ Jessica J. Hellmann, Vicky J. Meretsky, and Jason S. McLachlan
Chapter 20. Saving a Million Species \ Lee Hannah
 
Contributors
Index

"Saving a Million Species provides a much-needed review of extinction risk from climate change, penned by the best experts in the field. The early extinction-risk numbers associated with climate change were big and worrisome but didn't include marine or freshwater environments. This book addresses those neglected systems and argues that action is needed now to prevent further losses. Extinction risk is the most critical area of research in climate change biology."