%0 Journal Article
%T Biosphere Changes in a Warming World: An Ecological Call to Action
%J The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America - Wiley Online Library
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1531
%X Review of Thomas E. Lovejoy, and Lee Hannah, editors, Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2019. Editors Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah have convened an impressive international cadre of colleagues to write a state‐of‐the‐science volume about climate‐change impacts on the diversity of life on Earth. Fourteen years ago, the editors produced a seminal book, Climate Change and Biodiversity (Lovejoy and Hannah, Yale University Press, 2005), which elucidated the many ways that climate change was affecting life. In the years since then, ecology has advanced, as has our awareness of climate change and of the complexity of its effects. Moreover, climate change is progressing far more rapidly than anticipated even fourteen years ago, making it essential to have a current, interdisciplinary synthesis like this available today for ecologists and their students, managers, and policymakers. Divided into five sections, with a foreword by E. O. Wilson, this edited volume covers the full spectrum of climate change, from an ecological perspective. The section titles are presented as a series of didactic climate‐change questions. Part I, “What is climate change biology?” sets the stage and provides necessary context and definitions. Part II, “What changes are we observing?” offers chapters that provide details of recent and long‐term studies and findings across a wide range of ecosystems, with three in‐depth case studies featuring the Bering Sea, salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), and the Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae). Part III, “What does the past tell us?” takes a paleoecological approach, with a case study on sea‐level rise. Part IV, “What does the future hold?” uses a modeling approach to predict climate‐change impacts, with case studies on changes in species‐movement routes, the tipping point in Amazonia, and the effects of frost in Rocky Mountain ecosystems. Park V, “How can policy respond?” examines protected area management and adaptive management, with case studies on extinction risk, habitat connectivity, and using ecological wildlife interactions to balance the carbon budget. Biodiversity and Climate Change's primary audience is academic. Its chapters are written in journal article style, but with more commentary, illustrated with tables and figures, occasional boxes, and with robust literature‐cited sections. Their objective is to collectively synthesize and update the science on how climate change is affecting biodiversity. As an example, chapters on coral reef biodiversity loss
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