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Extinctions in near time : causes, contexts, and consequences

Title
  1. Extinctions in near time : causes, contexts, and consequences / edited by Ross D.E. MacPhee.
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  1. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c1999.

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Additional authors
  1. MacPhee, R. D. E.
Description
  1. xvi, 394 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.
Series statement
  1. Advances in vertebrate paleobiology
Subject
  1. Fossil hominids > Congresses
  2. Extinction (Biology) > Congresses
  3. Human evolution > Congresses
  4. Paleobiology > Congresses
Contents
  1. 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
  1. JFF 01-472
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Title
  1. Extinctions in near time : causes, contexts, and consequences / edited by Ross D.E. MacPhee.
Imprint
  1. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c1999.
Series
  1. Advances in vertebrate paleobiology
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Added author
  1. MacPhee, R. D. E.
LCCN
  1. 99030048
ISBN
  1. 0306460920
Research call number
  1. JFF 01-472
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