📗 Libro en inglés HANDBOOK OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIODIVERSITY

This book comprehensively describes essential research and projects on climate change and biodiversity Moreover it includes contributions on how to promote the climate agenda and biodiversity conservation at the local level Climate change as a whole and global warming in particular are known to have a negative impact on biodiversity in three main ways Firstly increases in temperatures are detrimental to a number of organisms especially those in sensitive habitats such as coral reefs and rainforests Secondly the pressures posed by a changing climate may lead to sets of responses in areas as varied as phenology range and physiology of living organisms often leading to changes in their lifecycles especially but not only in reproduction losses in productivity or even death In some cases the very survival of very sensitive species may be endangered Thirdly the impacts of climate change on biodiversity will be felt in the short term with regard to some species and ecosystems but also in the medium and long term in many biomes Indeed if left unchecked some of these impacts may be irreversible Many individual governments financial institutes and international donors are currently spending billions of dollars on projects addressing climate change and biod