Temperature adaptation in a changing climate : nature at risk /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Series: CABI climate change series ; 3.
• Subjects: Biodiversity > Climatic factors.; Adaptation (Biology); Plant Disorders and Injuries (Not caused directly by Organisms); Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Aquatic Biology and Ecology.; Water Resources.; Meteorology and Climate.; Insects.; Adaptation.; Boreal forests.; Climatic change.; Cold zones.; Environmental impact.; Forest trees.; Forests.; Freshwater invertebrates.; Global warming.; Marine invertebrates.; Marine mammals.; Risk assessment.; Survival.; Trees.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 16 chapters dealing with the impact of global climate change on non-human life on Earth, particularly on the effects of global warming on species that currently depend on cool or cold conditions for survival. These organisms include insects, freshwater and marine invertebrates, ma...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Nature at Risk / Kenneth B. Storey and Karen K. Tanino
• Temperature Perception and Signal Transduction : Mechanisms Across Multiple Organisms / Steven Penfield, Sarah Kendall and Dana MacGregor
• Microorganisms and Plants : a Photosynthetic Perspective / Rachael M. Morgan-Kiss and Jenna M. Dolhi
• Insects / Steven L. Chown
• Temperature Adaptation in Changing Climate : Marine Fish and Invertebrates / Doris Abele
• Fish : Freshwater Ecosystems / Tommi Linnansaari and Richard A. Cunjak
• Strategies of Molecular Adaptation to Climate Change : The Challenges for Amphibians and Reptiles / Kenneth B. Storey and Janet M. Storey
• The Relationship between Climate Warming and Hibernation in Mammals / Craig L. Frank
• On Thin Ice : Marine Mammals and Climate Change / Michael Castellini
• Climate Change and Plant Diseases / Denis A. Gaudet, Anne-Marte Tronsmo and André Laroche
• Trees and Boreal Forests / J.E. Olsen and Y.K. Lee
• The Paradoxical Increase in Freezing Injury in a Warming Climate : Frost as a Driver of Change in Cold Climate Vegetation / Marilyn C. Ball, Daniel Harris-Pascal, J.J.G. Egerton and Thomas Lenné
• Annual Field Crops / Klára Kosová and Ilja Tom Prášil
• Perennial Field Crops / Annick Bertrand
• The Potential Impact of Climate Change on Temperate Zone Woody Perennial Crops / H.A. Quamme and D. Neilsen
• Conclusion : Temperature Adaptation Across Organisms / Karen K. Tanino.