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HOLOCENE EXTINCTIONS

by Samuel T. Turvey

Published by Oxford University Press. 1st. 2009

Very good condition. Edited by Turvey. Describes and anlayses the range of global extinction events which have occurred during the Holocene period from the end of the last glaciation. Glazed pictorial boards. xii and 352 pages including index.

Board corners bumped and rubbed, covers a little scuffed. Contents clean.

ISBN: 9780199535095
Stock no. 1825072

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Contents

  • 1. An introduction to Late Glacial-Holocene environments
  • 2. In the shadow of the megafauna: prehistoric mammal and bird extinctions across the Holocene
  • 3. Holocene mammal extinctions
  • 4. Holocene avian extinctions
  • 5. Past and future patterns of freshwater mussel extinctions in North America during the Holocene
  • 6. Holocene extinctions in the sea
  • 7. Procellariiform extinctions in the Holocene: threat processes and wider ecosystem-scale implications
  • 8. Coextinction: anecdotes, models, and speculation
  • 9. Probabilistic methods for determining extinction chronologies
  • 10. The past is another country: is evidence for prehistoric, historical, and present-day extinction really comparable?
  • 11. Holocene deforestation: a history of human-environmental interactions, climate change, and extinction
  • 12. The shape of things to come: non-native mammalian predators and the fate of island bird diversity
  • 13. The Quaternary fossil record as a source of data for evidence-based conservation: is the past the key to the future?
  • 14. Holocene extinctions and the loss of feature diversity

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