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Birds and Climate Change
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521132190
Veröffentl:
2014
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.06.2014
Seiten:
480
Autor:
Rhys E. Green
Gewicht:
920 g
Format:
246x189x26 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
James Pearce-Higgins is a Principal Ecologist at the British Trust for Ornithology, where he leads on climate change research across the organisation and manages the Population Ecology and Modelling team. He is responsible for a range of research projects to examine the evidence for climate change impacts on biodiversity, undertaking projections of future responses and conducting research to inform how conservation should adapt to climate change.
A critical synthesis of the impacts of climate change on birds, examining potential future effects and conservation responses.
Foreword Michael B. Usher; Acknowledgements; 1. Birds and climate change; Part I. Impacts: 2. Altered timings; 3. The impact of altered timings; 4. Further mechanisms of population impacts; 5. Effects of climate change on distributions and communities; Part II. Conservation Responses: 6. Using models to predict the effects of climate change on birds; 7. Conservation in a changing climate; 8. Effects of climate change mitigation on birds; 9. Overall conclusions; References; Index.