No Way Home The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations /

Animal migration is a magnificent sight: a mile-long blanket of cranes rising from a Nebraska river and filling the sky; hundreds of thousands of wildebeests marching across the Serengeti; a blaze of orange as millions of monarch butterflies spread their wings to take flight. Nature's great mig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilcove, David (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Temas:
Environment.
Conservation biology.
Ecology .
Climatology.
Animal migration.
Environmental Sciences.
Conservation Biology.
Climate Sciences.
Animal Migration.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: On the Move
  • Part  1: IN THE AIR. Chapter 1. Empty Skies
  • Chapter 2. A Mountain of Butterflies and a Cloud of Grasshoppers
  • Part 2: ON LAND. Chapter 3. In Search of Greener Pastures
  • Chapter 4. Where the Buffalo Roamed
  • Part 3: IN THE WATER. Chapter 5. Lost at Sea
  • Chapter 6. Against the Flow. Conclusion: No Way Home?
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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