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Extinctions in near time : causes, contexts, and consequences
- Title
- Extinctions in near time : causes, contexts, and consequences / edited by Ross D.E. MacPhee.
- Publication
- New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c1999.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- MacPhee, R. D. E.
- Description
- xvi, 394 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Advances in vertebrate paleobiology
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Cretaceous meteor showers, the human ecological "niche", and the sixth extinction / Niles Eldredge -- Prehistoric extinctions on islands and continents / Paul S. Martin and David W. Steadman -- The interaction of humans, megaherbivores, and habitats in the Late Pleistocene extinction event / Norman Owen-Smith -- The power of Pleistocene hunter-gatherers: forward and backward searching for evidence about mammoth extinction / Gary Haynes and B. Sunday Eiselt -- A comparison of methods for the probabilistic determination of vertebrate extinction chronologies / Donald A. McFarlane -- Putting North America's End-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in context: large-scale analyses of spatial patterns, extinction rates, and size distributions / John Alroy -- Rates, patterns, and processes of landscape transformation and extinction in Madagascar / David A. Burney -- Extinctions and local disappearances of vertebrates in the western Mediterranean islands / Josep Antoni Alcovertomeu Seguí, and Pere Bover -- Introduced predators and avifaunal extinction in New Zealand / Richard N. Holdaway -- Late Quaternary extinctions in Australasia: an overview / T.F. Flannery and R.G. Roberts -- Late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions: a European perspective / Anthony John Stuart -- The quiet crisis: a preliminary listing of the freshwater fishes of the world that are extinct or "missing in action" / Ian J. Harrison and Melanie L.J. Stiassny -- Requiem Æternam: the last five hundred years of mammalian species extinctions / R.D.E. MacPhee and Clare Flemming.
- Call Number
- JFF 01-472
- ISBN
- 0306460920
- LCCN
- 99030048
- OCLC
- 41368299
- Title
- Extinctions in near time : causes, contexts, and consequences / edited by Ross D.E. MacPhee.
- Imprint
- New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c1999.
- Series
- Advances in vertebrate paleobiology
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added Author
- MacPhee, R. D. E.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 01-472