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UNIT I: SETTING THE STAGE; Chapter 1. Approaches in Global Change Biology; How Did the Field of Global Change Biology Develop?; How Are Global Change Biology Studies Designed?; What Key Research Approaches Are Used in Global Change Biology?; What Key Tools Are Used in Global Change Biology?; Core Concepts: How are Data Displayed?; Meet the Data: The Economic Value of Nature; Taking a Closer Look: The Value of Biological Diversity; Chapter 2. Brief History of Life on Earth; What Key Transitions Led to the Emergence of Life on Earth?; How Did Cellular Life Evolve and Diversify?; What Evolutionary Processes Shape Biological Diversity?; When Have Speciation and Extinction Rates Been Particularly High?; Core Concepts: What is a Phylogenetic Tree?; Meet the Data: The Ring of Life; Taking a Closer Look: Biological Levels of Change; Chapter 3. Rise of the Humans; When and How Did Early Hominids Evolve?; When and How Did Modern Humans Spread Around the World?; How Did Early Human Civilizations Impact the Environment?; Core Concepts: What Is In a Name?; Meet the Data: Ice Age Genetics; Taking a Closer Look: The Evolutionary Success of Humans; Chapter 4. The Anthropocene; What Is the Anthropocene and When Did It Begin?; What Are Patterns of Contemporary Population Growth?; How Are Contemporary Human Civilizations Impacting the Environment?; How Do Anthropogenic Stressors Interact with Each Other?; What Influences Overall Vulnerability to Global Change Pressures?; Core Concepts: What is Climate and How Is It Measured?; Meet the Data: Pollinators and Pesticides; Taking a Closer Look: Historical and Contemporary Climate Change; UNIT II: CORE RESPONSES TO GLOBAL CHANGE STRESSORS; Chapter 5. Core Responses: Move; How and Why Do Organisms Move?; What Is a Geographic Range?; What Factors Determine a Species’ Geographic Range?; Do Range Changes Occur Even Without Anthropogenic Influence?; What Types of Range Changes Occur in Response to Anthropogenic Pressures?; How Do Scientists Predict Range Changes?; Core Concepts: What Is a Niche?; Meet the Data: A Century of Change in Yosemite; Taking a Closer Look: Globalization and Invasive Species; Chapter 6. Core Responses: Adjust; What Is Phenotypic Plasticity?; Is the Capacity for Plasticity Consistent Across Traits and Species?; What Types of Plasticity Occur in Response to Global Change; What Mechanisms Underlie Phenotypic Plasticity?; How Do Scientists Assess and Predict Phenotypic Plasticity?; Can Plasticity Facilitate Long-Term Persistence?; Core Concepts: What Are the Mechanisms of Heredity?; Meet the Data: Phenology and Global Warming; Taking a Closer Look: Urbanization; Chapter 7. Core Responses: Adapt; What Conditions Are Required for Adaptation?; What Is an Example of Evolution by Natural Selection?; What Types of Adaptation Occur in Response to Global Change Pressures?; How Do Scientists Identify Adaptations and Predict Adaptive Potential?; Can Adaptation Prevent Extinction?; Core Concepts: Where Does Genetic Variation Come From?; Meet the Data: The Daphnia Time Machine; Taking a Closer Look: Coral Reefs; Chapter 8. Core Responses: Die; How Is the Survival of Individuals, Populations, and Species Connected?; What Are Examples of Extinction in Response to Global Change Pressures?; How Do Scientists Estimate Extinction Risk?; How Do Scientists Summarize Global Patterns of Extinction Risk?; What Is the Sixth Mass Extinction?; Core Concepts: What is Extinction Debt?; Meet the Data: The Sixth Mass Extinction; Taking a Closer Look: Amphibian Declines; UNIT III: COMPLEX RESPONSES TO GLOBAL CHANGE PRESSURES; Chapter 9. Community-Level Responses; What Are Key Types of Biological Interactions?; How Do Global Change Pressures Affect Biological Interactions?; How Does Extinction Affect Communities?; What Are Cascading Effects?; Core Concepts: What Are Above- and Below-Ground Food Webs?; Meet the Data: The Collapse of Mutualisms; Taking a Closer Look: Kelp Forests and Trophic Cascades; Chapter 10. Ecosystem-Level Responses; What Are Biogeochemical Cycles?; How Do Global Change Pressures Impact Ecosystems?; How Do Global Change Pressures Impact Large-Scale Earth Systems?; What Is a Feedback?; What Is Ecosystem Collapse?; What Is Ecosystem Resilience?; Core Concepts: What is a Biodiversity Hotspot?; Meet the Data: Greenhouse Gases in the Soil; Taking a Closer Look: Factors Influencing Response to Global Change; UNIT IV: NEW HORIZONS; Chapter 11. Conservation in an Era of Global Change; Why Is It Important to Explicitly Define Conservation Priorities?; Why Is It Important to Match Conservation Actions to Particular Biological Levels?; What Are Examples of Fine-Filter Conservation Strategies?; What Are Examples of Coarse-Filter Conservation Strategies?; What Is Adaptive Management?; Core Concepts: What is Climate Mitigation?; Meet the Data: Maximizing Evolutionary Diversity; Taking a Closer Look: Emerging Technologies and Conservation Ethics; Chapter 12. Aligning the Interests of Biodiversity and Human Society; What Are Coupled Human-Natural Systems?; What Societal Levers Can Be Used to Support Biodiversity Conservation?; How Can Individuals Support Biodiversity Conservation?; How Can Collectives Support Biodiversity Conservation?; How Can Policy Action Support Biodiversity Conservation?; What Is the Forecast for the Future?; Core Concepts: What is I=PAT?; Meet the Data: Financial Incentives for Dynamic Conservation; Taking a Closer Look: Environmental Worldviews

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