Overview
- Documents cases of ecosystem collapse around the world
- Raises awareness of the transitions that are already occurring through climate change today
- Will help scientists and managers to restore degraded ecosystems and their species and ecosystem functioning
Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 241)
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About this book
Human-driven greenhouse emissions are increasing the velocity of climate change and the frequency and intensity of climate extremes far above historical levels. These changes, along with other human-perturbations, are setting the conditions for more rapid and abrupt ecosystem dynamics and collapse.
This book presents new evidence on the rapid emergence of ecosystem collapse in response to the progression of anthropogenic climate change dynamics that are expected to intensify as the climate continues to warm. Discussing implications for biodiversity conservation, the chapters provide examples of such dynamics globally covering polar and boreal ecosystems, temperate and semi-arid ecosystems, as well as tropical and temperate coastal ecosystems.
Given its scope, the volume appeals to scientists in the fields of general ecology, terrestrial and coastal ecology, climate change impacts, and biodiversity conservation.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Polar and Boreal Ecosystems
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Temperate and Semi-arid Ecosystems
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Tropical and Temperate Coastal Ecosystems
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Josep G. Canadell is a chief research scientist at the Climate Science Centre of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, and the executive director of the Global Carbon Project, a global network of scientists that studies and integrates knowledge of greenhouses gases for human activities and the Earth System.
Rob Jackson is the Douglas Provostial Professor in Stanford’s Department of Earth System Science and Chair of the Global Carbon Project. Both scientists have spent decades documenting greenhouse gas emissions and how ecosystems are changing in response to climate and an altered atmosphere and environment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecosystem Collapse and Climate Change
Editors: Josep G. Canadell, Robert B. Jackson
Series Title: Ecological Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71330-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71329-4Published: 21 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71332-4Published: 22 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71330-0Published: 19 June 2021
Series ISSN: 0070-8356
Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 366
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecosystems, Ecology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Environmental Management, Earth System Sciences, Sustainable Development