Climate Change, Ecology and Systematics

Citation

(2011), "Climate Change, Ecology and Systematics", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 22 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2011.08322faa.012

Climate Change, Ecology and Systematics

Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 22, Issue 6

Trevor Hodkinson, Michael Jones, Stephen Waldren and John Parnell,Cambridge University Press,Cambridge,2011,£75,00,544 pp.,ISBN 9780521766098

Climate change has shaped life in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Understanding the interactions between climate and biodiversity is a complex challenge to science. With contributions from 60 key researchers, this book examines the ongoing impact of climate change on the ecology and diversity of life on earth. It discusses the latest research within the fields of ecology and systematics, highlighting the increasing integration of their approaches and methods.

Topics covered include the influence of climate change on evolutionary and ecological processes such as adaptation, migration, speciation and extinction, and the role of these processes in determining the diversity and biogeographic distribution of species and their populations. This book ultimately illustrates the necessity for global conservation actions to mitigate the effects of climate change in a world that is already undergoing a biodiversity crisis of unprecedented scale.