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Preface.. Acknowledgments.. Part I Introduction.. ONE Biodiversity and Climate Change in Context.. TWO What Is Climate Change?.. Part II Present Changes.. THREE Recent Climate Trends.. FOUR Biotic Response: Range and Abundance Changes.. Case Study: Detection at Multiple Levels: Euphydryas editha and Climate Change.. FIVE Present and Future Phenological Changes in Wild Plants and Animals.. Case Study: Responses of Natural Communities to Climate Change in a Highland Tropical Forest.. SIX Recent Evolutionary Effects of Climate Change.. Part III Learning from the Past.. SEVEN A "Paleoperspective" on Climate Variability and Change.. EIGHT North Temperate Responses.. NINE Tropical Biotic Responses to Climate Change.. Case Study: A Record of Change from the High Plain of Bogotá.. TEN Southern Temperate Ecosystem Responses.. Case Study: Microrefugia and Macroecology.. ELEVEN Responses of Marine Species and Ecosystems to Past Climate Change.. TWELVE Genetic and Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change.. Case Study: Phylogeny and Distribution of Fishes of the Characidium lauroi Group as Indicators of Climate Change in Southeastern Brazil.. Part IV Understanding the Future

THIRTEEN Climate Change Projections and Models.. Modeling Distributional Shifts of Individual Species and Biomes.. Case Study: Modeling Species Range Shifts in Two Biodiversity Hotspots.. FIFTEEN Dynamic Ecosystem and Earth System Models.. Case Study: Migration of Vegetation Types in a Greenhouse World.. SIXTEEN Climate Change and Marine Ecosystems.. SEVENTEEN Climate Change and Freshwater Ecosystems.. Case Study: Climate Change Impacts on Soil Biodiversity in a Grassland Ecosystem.. EIGHTEEN Synergistic Effects.. Case Study: Avian Malaria, Climate Change, and Native Birds of Hawaii.. Part V Conservation Responses.. NINETEEN Conservation with a Changing Climate.. TWENTY Designing Landscapes and Seascapes for Change.. Case Study: Integrating Climate Change into Canada's National Park System.. TWENTY-ONE Managing the Matrix.. Case Study: Managing for Future Change on the Albemarle Sound.. TWENTY-TWO Protected Areas Management in a Changing Climate.. Part VI Policy Responses.. TWENTY-THREE Emissions Reductions and Alternative Futures.. TWENTY-FOUR Global Greenhouse Gas Levels and the Future of Biodiversity.. List of Contributors.. Index

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