Ecology of climate change : the importance of biotic interactions / Eric Post.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rising temperatures are affecting organisms in all of Earth's biomes, but the complexity of ecological responses to climate change has hampered the development of a conceptually unified treatment of them. In a remarkably comprehensive synthesis, this book presents past, ongoing, and future ecological responses to climate change in the context of two simplifying hypotheses, facilitation and interference, arguing that biotic interactions may be the primary driver of ecological responses to climate change across all levels of biological organization. Eric Post's synthesis and analyses o.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: Purpose, Perspective, and Scope; The Tension and Facilitation Hypotheses of Biotic Response to Climate Change; Acknowledgments; 1. A Brief Overview of Recent Climate Change and Its Ecological Context; Climate Change versus Global Warming; Temperature Changes; Precipitation Changes; Changes in Snow and Ice Cover; El Niño-Southern Oscillation; Paleoclimatic Variation; Studying the Ecological Effects of Climate Change; The Study Site at Kangerlussuaq, Greenland; 2. Pleistocene Warming and Extinctions.

The Pleistocene Environment As Indicated by Its FaunaBiogeography and Magnitude of Pleistocene Extinctions and Climate Change; Case Studies of Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions; Pleistocene Microfaunal Extinctions and Species Redistributions; Spatial, Temporal, and Taxonomic Heterogeneity in Pleistocene Redistributions: Lessons to Be Learned; Reconsidering the Megafaunal Extinctions: The Zimov Model; Relevance to Contemporary Climate Change; 3. Life History Variation and Phenology; Geographic and Taxonomic Variation in Phenological Response to Climate Change.

Pattern and Scale in Phenological DynamicsPhenology and the Aggregate Life History Response to Climate Change; Temporal Dependence and a Model of Phenological Dynamics; The Iwasa-Levin Model and Its Relevance to Climate Change; Modeling the Contribution of Phenology to Population Dynamics; Trends and Statistical Considerations; Empirical Examples Linking Climate, Phenology, and Abundance; More Complex and Subtle Forms of Phenological Variation; 4. Population Dynamics and Stability; Establishing the Framework for Addressing Population Response to Climate Change.

Classic Treatments of Population Stability Viewed Afresh through the Lens of Climate ChangeIncorporation of Climate into Time Series Models; Simultaneous Thresholds in Population-Intrinsic and Population-Extrinsic Factors; Population Synchrony and Extinction Risk; Erosion of Population Cycles; Global Population Dynamics, Population Diversity, and the Portfolio Effect; 5. The Niche Concept; Grinnellian Niches and Climate Change; Niche Vacancy; Niche Evolution; Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolutionary Response to Climate Change; Niche Conservatism; Modes of Niche Response to Climate Change.

Bioclimatic Envelope Modeling and Environmental Niche Models6. Community Dynamics and Stability; Communities Defined through Lateral and Vertical Structuring; Regional versus Local Diversity and the Community Concept; Exploitation and Interference Interactions; Gleasonian and Clementsian Communities; Non-analogues: The Community Is Dead-Long Live the Community; The Role of Climate in Mediating Species Interactions versus the Role of Species Interactions in Mediating Community Response to Climate Change; Phenology and the Ephemeral Nature of Communities.

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