Wildlife responses to climate change : North American case studies / edited by Stephen H. Schneider and Terry L. Root.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schneider, Stephen Henry.

Root, Terry Louise.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--North America.

Climatic changes.

Global temperature changes--Environmental aspects.

Global temperature changes.

North America.

Global temperature changes--Environmental aspects--North America.

Global warming--North America.

Global warming.

Physical Description:

xv, 437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press, [2002]

Summary:

In 1997, 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. Each of the eight case studies provides important information about how biotic systems respond to climatic variables, and how a changing climate may affect those systems in the future.

Contents:

Introduction: The Rationale for the National Wildlife Federation Cohort of Young Scientists Studying Wildlife Responses to Climate Change / Stephen H. Schneider, Terry L. Root xi

Climate Change: Overview and Implications for Wildlife / Terry L. Root, Stephen H. Schneider 1

Chapter 1. Climate Change and Its Effect on Species Range Boundaries: A Case Study of the Sachem Skipper Butterfly, Atalopedes campestris / Lisa Crozier 57

Chapter 2. Butterflies as Model Systems for Understanding and Predicting Climate Change / Jessica J. Hellmann 93

Chapter 3. Historical Studies of Species' Responses to Climate Change: Promises and Pitfalls / Raphael Sagarin 127

Chapter 4. Community Responses to Climate Change: Links Between Temperature and Keystone Predation in a Rocky Intertidal System / Eric Sanford 165

Chapter 5. Testing Climate Change Predictions with the Subalpine Species Delphinium nuttallianum / Francisca Saavedra 201

Chapter 6. Modeling Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Spatial Distribution of Vegetation in the United States with a Probabilistic Biogeography Approach / Elena Shevliakova 251

Chapter 7. Climate Change and the Susceptibility of U.S. Ecosystems to Biological Invasions: Two Cases of Expected Range Expansion / Erika S. Zavaleta, Jennifer L. Royval 277

Chapter 8. Climate Change, Whitebark Pine, and Grizzly Bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem / Laura Koteen 343

Conclusion: Climate Change and Wildlife

A Look Ahead / Patty Glick, Mark Van Putten 415.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1559639245

1559639253

OCLC:

48789662