Extinctions in Near Time

by Macphee, Ross D. E.; Sues, Hans-Dieter

• ISBN13: 9780306460920
• ISBN10: 0306460920
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

This book examines an important and growing issue among ecologists, conservation biologists, and archaeologists, namely recent extinction of species, and will focus on treatments of losses thought to have been caused by humans in some way over the past 40,000 years when Homo sapiens spread worldwide. There is an exemplary list of leading figures in this debate, and the book should have impact for the debate on current conservation issues and biodiversity.

Table of Contents

Cretaceous Meteor Showers, the Human Ecological "Niche," and the Sixth Extinction

Prehistoric Extinctions on Islands and Continents

The Interaction of Humans, Megaherbivores, and Habitats in the Late Pleistocene Extinction Event

The Power of Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers: Forward and Backward Searching for Evidence about Mammoth Extinction

A Comparison of Methods for the Probabilistic Determination of Vertebrate Extinction Chronologies

Putting North America's End-Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction in Context: Large-Scale Analyses of Spatial Patterns, Extinction Rates, and Size Distributions

Rates, Patterns, and Processes of Landscape Transformation and Extinction in Madagascar

Extinctions and Local Disappearances of Vertebrates in the Western Mediterranean Islands

Introduced Predators and Avifaunal Extinction in New Zealand

Late Quaternary Extinctions in Australasia: An Overview

Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions: A European Perspective

The Quiet Crisis: A Preliminary Listing of the Freshwater Fishes of the World that Are Extinct or "Missing in Action"

Requiem AEternam: The Last Five Hundred Years of Mammalian Species Extinctions

Systematic Index

General Index

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