Assignment task:
Considering the book you selected for class discussion, explain how it is a seminal work in the field of environmental science. Please use the sources in the Science in the Books assignment to offer justification in this essay. Please explain how science supports this topic, and where we stand on the science involved (e.g., are there substantial outstanding questions, is there disagreement, is there consensus, etc.). Essentially, you are to use the Science in the Books sources to make the case, but it must be concise. The book I have read is Saving a Million Species: Extinction Risk from Climate Change. Please help!
My sources are Nunez, S., Arets, E., Alkemade, R. et al. Assessing the impacts of climate change on biodiversity: is below 2 °C enough?.Climatic Change 154, 351-365 (2019).
Pires, A. P., Srivastava, D. S., Marino, N. A., MacDonald, A. A., Figueiredo-Barros, M. P., & Farjalla, V. F. (2018). Interactive effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on ecosystem functioning. Ecology, 99(5), 1203-1213.
Sgrò, C. M., Lowe, A. J., & Hoffmann, A. A. (2010). Building evolutionary resilience for conserving biodiversity under climate change. Evolutionary Applications, 4(2), 326-337.
Román-Palacios, C., & Wiens, J. J. (2020). Recent responses to climate change reveal the drivers of species extinction and survival. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(8), 4211-4217.