Strategies for reducing extinction risk under a changing climate

Jessica J. Hellmann; Vicky J. Meretsky; Jason S. McLachlan

doi:10.5822/978-1-61091-182-5_19

Strategies for reducing extinction risk under a changing climate

Jessica J. Hellmann, Vicky J. Meretsky, Jason S. McLachlan

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In a world characterized by increasing mean temperatures and a higher frequency of climatic extremes, species will reorganize their geographic distributions to track changing conditions, evolve new environmental tolerances, or risk local or global extinction. Limitations on rapid evolutionary change for most organisms of conservation concern suggest that range shifts are the most feasible mechanism for evading extinction under climate change, and migration was a common mode of species response following postglacial warming (Davis and Shaw, 2001). Changes in the geographic ranges of species will cause changes in communities, altering biological systems as we know them and affecting ecosystem services and functions. Central to these ecological changes are changes in cultural, economic, and aesthetic values.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Saving a Million Species
Subtitle of host publication	Extinction Risk from Climate Change
Publisher	Island Press-Center for Resource Economics
Pages	363-387
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Electronic)	9781610911825
ISBN (Print)	1597265691, 9781597265690
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-182-5_19
State	Published - Oct 1 2013
Externally published	Yes

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