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Wildlife Responses to Climate Change - North American Case Studies (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Wildlife Responses to Climate Change - North American Case Studies (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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"Wildlife Responses to Climate Change" is the culmination of a
three-year project to research and study the impacts of global
climate change on ecosystems and individual wildlife species in
North America. In 1997, the National Wildlife Federation provided
fellowships to eight outstanding graduate students to conduct
research on global climate change, and engaged leading climate
change experts Stephen H. Schneider and Terry L. Root to advise and
guide the project. This book presents the results, with chapters
describing groundbreaking original research by some of the
brightest young scientists in America. The book presents case
studies that examine: ways in which local and regional climate
variables affect butterfly populations and habitat ranges how
variations in ocean temperatures have affected intertidal marine
species the potential effect of reduced snow cover on plants in the
Rocky Mountains the potential effects of climate change on the
distribution of vegetation in the United States how climate change
may increase the susceptibility of ecosystems to invasions of
non-native species the potential for environmental change to alter
interactions between a variety of organisms in whitebark pine
communities of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Also included are
two introductory chapters by Schneider and Root that discuss the
rationale behind the project and offer an overview of climate
change and its implications for wildlife.Each of the eight case
studies provides important information about how biotic systems
respond to climatic variables, and how a changing climate may
affect biotic systems in the future. They also acknowledge the
inherent complexities of problems likely to arise fromchanges in
climate, and demonstrate the types of scientific questions that
need to be explored in order to improve our understanding of how
climate change and other human disturbances affect wildlife and
ecosystems."Wildlife Responses to Climate Change" is an important
addition to the body of knowledge critical to scientists, resource
managers, and policymakers in understanding and shaping solutions
to problems caused by climate change. It provides a useful resource
for students and scientists studying the effects of climate change
on wildlife and will assist resource managers and other wildlife
professionals to better understand factors affecting the species
they are striving to conserve.
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