The research paper "Extinction Risk from Climate Change"
published in the journal "Nature" in January 2004 created
front-page headlines around the world. The notion that climate
change could drive more than a million species to extinction
captured both the popular imagination and the attention of
policy-makers, and provoked an unprecedented round of scientific
critique.
"Saving a Million Species" reconsiders the central question of that
paper: How many species may perish as a result of climate change
and associated threats? Leaders from a range of disciplines
synthesize the literature, refine the original estimates, and
elaborate the conservation and policy implications.
The book:
- examines the initial extinction risk estimates of the original
paper, subsequent critiques, and the media and policy impact of
this unique study
- presents evidence of extinctions from climate change from
different time frames in the past
- explores extinctions documented in the contemporary record
- sets forth new risk estimates for future climate change
- considers the conservation and policy implications of the
estimates.
"Saving a Million Species" offers a clear explanation of the
science behind the headline-grabbing estimates for
conservationists, researchers, teachers, students, and
policy-makers. It is a critical resource for helping those working
to conserve biodiversity take on the rapidly advancing and evolving
global stressor of climate change-the most important issue in
conservation biology today, and the one for which we are least
prepared.
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