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Natural change and human impact in Madagascar
- Title
- Natural change and human impact in Madagascar / edited by Steven M. Goodman and Bruce D. Patterson.
- Publication
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | QH195.M2 N37 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 432 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Subject
- Madagascar
- Animal Bildband
- Ecology > Madagascar
- Paleoecology > Madagascar
- Extinction (Biology) > Madagascar
- Nature > Effect of human beings on > Madagascar
- Madagascar
- 1995
- nature conservation
- palaeontology
- environment
- conference papers (form)
- 74.23 geography of Africa
- Ecology
- Extinction (Biology)
- Nature > Effect of human beings on
- Paleoecology
- Umweltveränderung
- Anthropogener Einfluss
- Palökologie
- Mensch
- Pflanzen
- Kongress
- Aussterben
- Menselijke invloed
- Milieuverandering
- Écosystèmes > Madagascar
- Écologie > Madagascar
- Espèces (biologie) > Extinction > Madagascar
- Nature > Effets de l'homme > Madagascar
- Paléoécologie > Madagascar
- Madagaskar
- Genre/Form
- History (form)
- Congresses (form)
- Note
- Based on presentations made at a symposium held June 2-4, 1995 at the Field Museum, Chicago.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Late Cretaceous vertebrates from Madagascar : implications for biotic change in deep time / David W. Krause, Joseph H. Hartman and Neil A. Wells -- Extreme gully erosion in Madagascar and its natural and anthropogenic causes / Neil A. Wells and Benjamin R. Andriamihaja -- Theories and facts regarding Holocene environmental change before and after human colonization / David A. Burney -- The classification of natural and anthropogenic vegetation in Madagascar / Porter P. Lowry II, George E. Schatz, and Peter B. Phillipson -- Biogeographic patterns of reptiles in eastern Madagascar / Christopher J. Raxworthy and Ronald A. Nussbaum -- Lemurs : old and new / Elwyn L. Simons -- The 40,000-year plague : humans, hyperdisease, and first-contact extinctions / Ross D.E. MacPhee and Preston A. Marx -- Subfossil lemurs : inferences about past and present primate communities in Madagascar / Laurie R. Godfrey [and others] -- Subfossil birds from coastal sites in western and southwestern Madagascar : a paleoenvironmental reconstruction / Steven M. Goodman and Lucien M.A. Rakotozafy -- Effects of forest fragmentation on extinction patterns of the endemic avifauna on the Central High Plateau of Madagascar / Olivier Langrand and Lucienne Wilmé -- Cultural transformations and their impacts on the environments of Madagascar / Henry T. Wright and Jean-Aimé Rakotoarisoa -- A cultural history of Madagascar : evolution and interpretation of the archaeological evidence / Jean-Aimé Rakotoarisoa -- Mahilaka, an eleventh- to fourteenth-century Islamic port : the first impact of urbanism on Madagascar / Chantal Radimilahy -- Were people responsible for the extinction of Madagascar's subfossils, and how will we ever know? / Robert E. Dewar -- The future of biodiversity in Madagascar : a view from Ranomafana National Park / Patricia C. Wright -- Degradation, transformation, and conservation : the past, present, and possible future of Madagascar's environment / Alison F. Richard and Sheila O'Connor.
- ISBN
- 1560986824
- 9781560986829
- 1560986832
- 9781560986836
- LCCN
- 96044170
- OCLC
- ocm35620388
- 35620388
- SCSB-9609988
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library