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Corridors to Extinction and the Australian Megafauna.
Extinctions have always occurred and always will, so what is so surprising about the megafauna extinctions? They were caused by humans and were the first of many extinctions that eventually led to the extinction of the Moa, Steller's Sea Cow, the Dodo, Great Auk and countless other species grea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Burlington :
Elsevier Science,
2013.
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| Colección: | Elsevier insights Corridors to extinction and the Australian megafauna
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Extinctions have always occurred and always will, so what is so surprising about the megafauna extinctions? They were caused by humans and were the first of many extinctions that eventually led to the extinction of the Moa, Steller's Sea Cow, the Dodo, Great Auk and countless other species great and small, all attributed to human agency. Therefore, the megafauna were humans' first great impact on the planet. There is now an increasing realization that the 'blitzkrieg' view of these extinctions may have been wrong. A growing body of evidence and long-term field work is beginning to show that. |
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| Notas: | Northwestern Australia. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (329 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780124078406 0124078400 9780124077904 0124077900 |