Climate Change Biology

Lee Hannah is Senior Researcher in Climate Change Biology at the Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans at Conservation International (CI). Tracking with his interest in the role of climate change in conservation planning and methods of corridor design, he heads CI’s efforts to develop conservation responses to climate change. He works collaboratively with the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara to model climate impacts on species in California, and with the National Botanical Institute in Cape Town, South Africa to model biotic change resulting from global warming in biodiversity hot spots in that region. He has written on the global extent of wilderness and the role of communities in the management of protected areas.

1. A New Discipline: Climate Change Biology 2. The Climate System and Climate Change 3. The Impact of Human Induced Climate Change 4. Phenology: Changes in Timing of Biological Events due to Climate Change 5. Ecosystem Change 6. Past Terrestrial Response 7. Past Marine Ecosystem Changes 8. Past Freshwater Changes 9. Extinctions 10. Insights from Experimentation 11. Modeling Species and Ecosystem Responses 12. Estimating Extinction Risk from Climate Change 13. Ecosystem Services 14. Adaption of Conservation Strategies 15. Connectivity and Landscape Management 16. Species Management 17. International Climate Policy 18. Mitigation 19. Carbon Sinks and Sources 20. Assessing Risks, Designing Solutions