Wildlife responses to climate change
Subtitle: North American case studies
By: edited by Stephen H. Schneider and Terry L. Root.
Contributors: Schneider, Stephen Henry.; Root, Terry Louise.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- North America; Biogeography -- Climatic factors -- North America; Global temperature changes -- Environmental aspects -- North America; Global warming -- Environmental aspects -- North America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: the rationale for the National Wildlife Federation Cohort of Young Scientists studying wildlife responses to climate change / Stephen H. Schneider and Terry L. Root; title: Climate change : overview and implications for wildlife / Terry L. Root and Stephen H. Schneider; title: Climate change and its effect on species range boundaries : a case study of the sachem skipper butterfly, Atalopedes campestris / Lisa Crozier; title: Butterflies as model systems for understanding and predicting climate change / Jessica J. Hellmann; title: Historical studies of species' responses to climate change : promises and pitfalls / Raphael Sagarin; title: Community responses to climate change : links between temperature and keystone predation in a rocky intertidal system / Eric Sanford; title: Testing climate change predictions with the subalpine species, Delphinium nuttallianum / Francisca Saavedra; title: Modeling potential impacts of climate change on the spatial distribution of vegetation in the United States with a probabilistic biogeography approach / Elena Shevliakova; title: Climate change and the susceptibility of U.S. ecosystems to biological invasions : two cases of expected range expansion / Erika Zavaleta and Jennifer L. Royval; title: Climate change, whitebark pine, and grizzly bears in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem; title: Conclusion; title: climate change and wildlife, a look ahead / Patty Glick and Mark van Putten.