A pioneering look at how climate change is affecting British wildlife--winners, losers, new arrivals and future prospects. There is no escaping the fact that the British climate is changing, and the wildlife is changing with it. Warmer and wetter winters, combined with longer summers, have worked to the advantage of some plants such as the rare Lady Orchid and a whole range of insects including butterflies, crickets and dragonflies. Many are moving their range edges northwards, while spring flowers and butterflies are appearing earlier each year. Britain is also hosting new arrivals that come in on the wing, especially dragonflies and damselflies. But it is not all good news. Alpine plants and seabirds--particularly Kittiwakes--are suffering declines as the climate warms.
Britian boasts the longest history of wildlife recording anywhere in the world and is in pole position for studying how climate has influenced our flora and fauna over at least decades, and in some cases, centuries. In this latest volume in the British Wildlife Collection, Trevor Beebee examines the story so far for our species and their ecosystems, and considers how they may respond in the future. For conservationists, coping with habitat loss and the associated species declines has proved challenging enough in the past; now we must also consider ways to tackle the additional pressures that come with climate change.
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Fascinating but frightening, compelling and concerning this book brings together all you need to know about how the climate is impacting wildlife. -- Chris Packham For anyone interested in natural history, Climate Change and British Wildlife is a hugely important read. A painstaking volume of research has evidently been invested in producing this book, with the author's own decades of observation and expertise also playing their part ... Beebee has done a brilliant job of capturing the hard facts of science, yet presenting what could easily prove an exhausting topic in an insightful and compelling manner ... thoroughly recommended. -- Josh Jones * Birdguides * This is the sixth volume of the British Wildlife Collection and it maintains its established standard of excellence. Based upon its content and style, I think that this is the best environmental book that I have read in a long time. -- John Hopkins * British Wildlife magazine * This is a must-read for anyone with an interest in British wildlife ... the triumph of this book is the level of detail whilst being an engaging read. -- Claire Boothby * BTO book reviews * A well-illustrated and thought-provoking text. -- Antoinette Mannion * British Ecological Society's 'The Niche' magazine * A broad, approachable and accurate summary of where we are in the early 21st century, as climate change really begins to kick in. -- Trevor James * British Naturalists' Association's 'Country-Side' magazine *
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Winner of the Marsh Book of the Year Award (2019). A pioneering look at how climate change is affecting British wildlife winners, losers, new arrivals and future prospects.
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Trevor Beebee is emeritus professor of evolution, behaviour and environment at the University of Sussex, and a trustee of the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust. He has worked on the ecology, conservation and genetics of British amphibian populations for more than 40 years, and has published several books and more than 200 scientific papers and articles on those subjects. In 2009, he was awarded Fellowship (Honoris Causa) by the British Naturalists Association.
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