| Description |
xvii, 254 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Global warming
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Take a provocative look at how human activities affect the distribution of species and their critical habitats, increase the occurrence of severe weather and droughts, contribute to rising sea levels, and instigate myriad health and quality-of-life issues. |
| Contents |
Signs and effects of global warming -- Ecosystems, adaptation, and extinction -- Impacts to forests -- Impacts to rangelands, grasslands, and prairies -- Impacts on polar ecosystems -- Impacts to desert ecosystems -- Impacts to mountain ecosystems -- Impacts to marine ecosystems -- Conclusions: where to go from here. |
| Subject |
Ecology -- Popular works.
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Biotic communities -- Popular works.
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Global warming -- Popular works.
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| ISBN |
9780816072637 |
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0816072639 |
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