Heatstroke : nature in an age of global warming

Heatstroke : nature in an age of global warming / Anthony D. Barnosky.

Renowned paleoecologist Barnosky shows how global warming is fundamentally changing the natural world and its creatures. Plants and animals that have followed the same rhythms for millennia are suddenly being confronted with a world they're unprepared for--and adaptation usually isn't an o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnosky, Anthony D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, ©2009.
Subjects:
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Global warming.
global warming.
NATURE > Ecology.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
Global warming
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Artenreichtum
Erwärmung > Meteorologie
Evolution
Ökosystem
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Table of Contents:
  • The heat is on
  • Behind nature's heartbeat
  • On our watch
  • Witnessing extinction
  • No place to run to
  • California dreaming
  • Disturbance in Yellowstone
  • Mountain time in Colorado
  • Africa on the edge
  • Disappearing act
  • Losing the parts
  • Skeleton crew
  • Bad company
  • Geography of hope.

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