Ecology of climate change : the importance of biotic interactions /
Rising temperatures are affecting organisms in all of Earth's biomes, but the complexity of ecological responses to climate change has hampered the development of a conceptually unified treatment of them. In a remarkably comprehensive synthesis, this book presents past, ongoing, and future ecol...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2013
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| Series: | Monographs in population biology ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: Purpose, Perspective, and Scope; The Tension and Facilitation Hypotheses of Biotic Response to Climate Change; Acknowledgments; 1. A Brief Overview of Recent Climate Change and Its Ecological Context; Climate Change versus Global Warming; Temperature Changes; Precipitation Changes; Changes in Snow and Ice Cover; El Niño-Southern Oscillation; Paleoclimatic Variation; Studying the Ecological Effects of Climate Change; The Study Site at Kangerlussuaq, Greenland; 2. Pleistocene Warming and Extinctions.
- The Pleistocene Environment As Indicated by Its FaunaBiogeography and Magnitude of Pleistocene Extinctions and Climate Change; Case Studies of Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions; Pleistocene Microfaunal Extinctions and Species Redistributions; Spatial, Temporal, and Taxonomic Heterogeneity in Pleistocene Redistributions: Lessons to Be Learned; Reconsidering the Megafaunal Extinctions: The Zimov Model; Relevance to Contemporary Climate Change; 3. Life History Variation and Phenology; Geographic and Taxonomic Variation in Phenological Response to Climate Change.
- Pattern and Scale in Phenological DynamicsPhenology and the Aggregate Life History Response to Climate Change; Temporal Dependence and a Model of Phenological Dynamics; The Iwasa-Levin Model and Its Relevance to Climate Change; Modeling the Contribution of Phenology to Population Dynamics; Trends and Statistical Considerations; Empirical Examples Linking Climate, Phenology, and Abundance; More Complex and Subtle Forms of Phenological Variation; 4. Population Dynamics and Stability; Establishing the Framework for Addressing Population Response to Climate Change.
- Classic Treatments of Population Stability Viewed Afresh through the Lens of Climate ChangeIncorporation of Climate into Time Series Models; Simultaneous Thresholds in Population-Intrinsic and Population-Extrinsic Factors; Population Synchrony and Extinction Risk; Erosion of Population Cycles; Global Population Dynamics, Population Diversity, and the Portfolio Effect; 5. The Niche Concept; Grinnellian Niches and Climate Change; Niche Vacancy; Niche Evolution; Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolutionary Response to Climate Change; Niche Conservatism; Modes of Niche Response to Climate Change.
- Bioclimatic Envelope Modeling and Environmental Niche Models6. Community Dynamics and Stability; Communities Defined through Lateral and Vertical Structuring; Regional versus Local Diversity and the Community Concept; Exploitation and Interference Interactions; Gleasonian and Clementsian Communities; Non-analogues: The Community Is Dead-Long Live the Community; The Role of Climate in Mediating Species Interactions versus the Role of Species Interactions in Mediating Community Response to Climate Change; Phenology and the Ephemeral Nature of Communities.
